Miss Schlegel
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
| Introduction | I live in a moated grange. |
| Favorite movies | No Man’s Land (the 2001 version), O Lucky Man!, The Player, Woody Allen (The early, funny ones. And Celebrity), Scorcese, Coppola, Altman, basically anything made in the 70s, Zoolander, The Third Man, Broadcast News, all the Cohen Bros especially Barton Fink, Working Girl, The Night of the Hunter, Adaptation. And for deep girly indulgence, such as a Year Eight slumber party where you practice pashing on your friends, The English Patient. |
| Favorite books | Patrick White, George Eliot, Sebastian Faulks, Kazuo Ishiguro, most favouritely The Unconsoled, Pat Barker, Nabokov, Henry James, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton, A.S. Byatt (not Possession though, more the Fredrika quartet), P.G. Wodehouse, Alan Bennett, Hermann Hesse, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Wolfe, particularly The Right Stuff, DBC Pierre, the sadly underrated American writer Ellen Gilchrist, Doris Lessing, Dickens, Colm Toibin, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller, Dave Eggers, Christina Stead, Frank Moorhouse, Hilary Mantel, Coetze, Richard Ford, D. H. Lawrence, Simone de Beauvoir, Alan Hollinghurst, Craig Sherbourne. Then there’s poetry. Very British and mid-century. Philip Larken, W.H. Auden, Louis McNeice, Stevie Smith. Also Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, Weldon Kees, everything I’ve posted on waylaid.blogspirit.com and, very very especially, John Clarke’s Book of Australian Verse. |