jmartin

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Gender Female
Location Oak Park, IL, United States
Interests Anatomy, Binomial nominclature, Bonnard, Brueghel the Elder, Cartoons, Color, Daumier, Durer, Essays, Han pottery, Hard-bop jazz, Kertesz, Modern Fiction, Munch, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, Photography, Poetry, Public Health, Typography, Van Gogh
Favorite Movies Brazil, Chinatown, Children of Men
Favorite Music Dancing in the Dark (Divine Miss Sarah), Lush Life (Hartman, Coltane), Kerry Dancers (Griffin), Peter Serkin, Pollini, Hillary Hahn, Orion Quartet, Kenny Drew Jr.
Favorite Books Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel), Death of the Heart and House in Paris (Bowen), A Cab at the Door (Pritchett), 1984 (Orwell), Bend in the River (Naipaul), Bleak House (Dickins), The Bookshop (Fitzgerald), Speak Memory (Nabokov), Uncle Tungsten (Sacks), Oysters of Locmariaquer (Clark), Genoma (Ridley), Gilead (Robinson), In Patagonia (Chatwin), The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Barnes), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), Lonesome Dove (McMurtry), Memento Mori and Girls of Slender Means (Sparks), Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Color Purple (Walker), Earl of Louisiana (Liebing), Travels with a Tangerine (Macintosh-Smith), Other People's Houses (Siegel), Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (Von Rezzori), Letters of Virginia Woolfe, Independence Day (Ford), Mating (Rush), The Shipping News (Proulx), Grendel (Gardiner), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), Distant Mirror (Tuchman), Disgrace (Coetzee), No Country for Young Men (O'Faolain), The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), The Untouchable and Kepler (Banville), Lillith's Brood (Butler), Snow Crash (Stephenson), The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (Falconer), Timothy (Klinkenborg), Then We Came to the End (Ferris), Assembling California (McPhee), A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), Field Notes from a Catastrophe (Kolbert)