Allan Maurer
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: Editor, writer
- Location: Durham : North Carolina : United States
About Me
Writer editor widely published in national, regional, and local media, including magazines from Playboy to Modern Maturity.
Interests
- Film
- North Carolina
- reading
- writing
- sci-fi
- swing dancing
- jazz music
- blues
- harmonia jamming
- and living well.
Favorite Movies
- Groundhog Day
- Same River Twice
- Bright Leaves
- Bubba Ho-Tep
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- Johnny Come Lately
- Teacher's Pet
- Susan Slept Here
- Tarantino
- This Island Earth
- Forbidden Planet
- all three versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Kurosawa's Ikiru
- Dodes K'dan
- and Lower Depths
- Renoir's Rules of the Game
- Jack Webb's melodramatic "30
- " anything by Ozu (put particularly Late Spring and Early Autumn
- Wender's Wings of an Angel
- Fassbinder's All Fear Eats the Soul
- Veronica Voss
- and Marriage of Maria Braun
- I could just go on and on.
Favorite Music
- Muddy Waters
- Sonny Boy Williamson (both I and II)
- Little Walter
- Frank Sinatra
- Phillip Glass (Mishima in particular)
- "Love
- " the recent remix of Beatle's classics
- All Songs Considered
- Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman
- Dixieland
- lots of jazz
- blues
- and classic (not classic rock
- classic).
Favorite Books
- Who the Devil Made It
- Who the Hell is In It
- both by Peter Bogdanavich
- George Orwell
- Jane Austen
- Walter Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz
- Robert Caro's LBJ bios
- Macaulay's history of England
- Keats
- T.S. Elliot
- prose poems
- Zen koans
- The Sandman comics
- A Movable Feast
- The Way the Future Was
- The Futurians
- Flannery O'Connor. You couldn't possibly be still reading this list.
