Amy Guth
- Gender: Female
- Astrological Sign: Aries
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Occupation: author, editor, guttersnipe
- Location: Chicago : IL : United States
About Me
...is digital coordinator for books at the Chicago Tribune, writes the local literary blog, Chicago Subtext, for the Tribune's ChicagoNow blog network, where she is also the Life & Style community manager. She is the founder of Pilcrow Lit Fest, managing editor at So New, a regular crew member at Reading Under The Influence and author of Three Fallen Women (2006). Previously, she has written for all sorts of places, and in addition to this blog, she also writes a running, adventure and fitness blog, Bonkless, because she's into that sort of thing, is a closet filmmaker and a disaster and mass care volunteer for the American Red Cross. Previously, she collaborated in several sketch comedy productions at Second City's training center and other improv comedy venues, served as assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus, and hosted/curated Chicago's Fixx Reading Series.
Interests
- Running my next marathon
- my cat
- sewing projects
- vintage clothes
- my fixation with crime drama
- Maimonides
- Rabbis
- physics
- string theory
- particle theory
- why I forget where I park
- wine
- not-found-in-nature haircolors
- travel
- the origin of racial/ethnic slurs
- my self-diagnosed insomnia
- how much change is on the ground right now
- belly dancing
- tattoos
- gypsies
- Derek Acorah
- henna-hands
- why few of us with hazel eyes call them hazel
- breaking shit/building shit
Favorite Movies
- The Pillow Book
- Lemming
- Fire Walk With Me
- Secretary
- The Graduate
- Pulp Fiction
- Amores Perros
- Fargo
- Raising Arizona
- Requiem For A Dream
- Aria
- The Squid and the Whale
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Reservoir Dogs
- American History X
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- The Usual Suspects
- Lost In Translation
- Kadosh
- Buffalo 66
- Or
- Amelie
- Life Is Beautiful
- Snatch
- Fight Club
- Run Lola Run
- The Evil Dead Trilogy
- The Virgin Suicides
- 200 Cigarettes
- Beautiful Girls
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Wild At Heart
- Blue Velvet
