Dan Medeiros
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Occupation: Editor/Writer
- Location: Massachusetts : United States
About Me
Dan Medeiros is a copy editor at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and a freelance writer. He has a master's degree in creative writing from Emerson College and has published several short stories and many more columns and articles. He's a reader for the literary magazine Ploughshares and a member of Mensa, which is not all it's cracked up to be. Believe me. He has a wife, two dogs, and two cats.
If you were a wrestler, what would be your finishing move?
I would use guilt. Make the other wrestlers feel terrible about themselves. In this way, I would quickly become the World Heavyweight Champion.
Interests
- literary fiction
- film
- humor
- animals
- politics
- food
- political animals on film eating humorous food
- playing guitar
- photography
- skepticism
- doing things
- not doing things
- and so on
Favorite Movies
- Citizen Kane
- Rushmore
- Annie Hall
- The Apartment
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Barry Lyndon
- It's a Wonderful Life
- various & sundry by
- Woody Allen
- Billy Wilder
- Stanley Kubrick
- Wes Anderson
- the Coen Brothers
- pretty much anything with Alan Alda or Jack Lemmon in it
Favorite Music
- Led Zeppelin
- AC/DC
- the Kinks
- Frank Sinatra
- Frank Zappa
- Miles Davis
- Medeski Martin & Wood
- the Upper Crust
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Slim Gaillard
- Ramones
- the theme song to TV's "Match Game"
Favorite Books
- My Brother Was an Only Child
- Infinite Jest
- As I Lay Dying
- Nine Stories
- Winesburg Ohio
- The Beggar Maid
- Pricksongs and Descants
- The Monster At The End of this Book
- various and sundry others by
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Woody Allen
- William Faulkner
- S.J. Perelman
- George Saunders
- Flannery O'Connor
