Name:

Delaune

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Country:

United States

Occupation:

writer, producer of Spoken Interludes reading series

Hobbies:

going to the park or the zoo or aquarium with my sons, writing, reading, running, Ashtanga yoga, boxing (watching the pros, especially Roy Jones, Jr., and hitting the heavy bag myself - supposedly I have a mean right hook, but I wouldn't be scared of me in the dark), meditating, interior design or as my husband says, are you changing that again?, throwing parties, dancing for hours, the South (especially South Louisiana, the Florida panhandle, and the I-10 drive between them), City Ballet, crossword puzzles with my husband, and the last great drug, sleep.

Movies:

Boogie Nights, Seven Samurai, 400 Blows, Paper Moon, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Traffic, O, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby, Klute, The Others, Devil's Backbone, Dead Man Walking, Bowfinger, Liar Liar, No Country for Old Men, Reds, Interiors, Good Fellas, Under the Sand, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Gosford Park, Best in Show, Alien, Y Tu Mama Tambian, The Big Lebowski, Groundhog Day, Raging Bull, The Ice Storm, A Simple Plan, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Election, Dr. Strangelove, Spirited Away, Chinatown, Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, Meet the Press, Laker games - though I guess I should like the Knicks now that I live in NY, but who are we kidding?, and TIVO for finding movies to watch.

Music:

Muddy Waters, early REM, Bill Monroe, Rolling Stones, Prince, Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Fats Waller, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers especially Benmont Tench, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucinda Williams, Led Zeppelin, Aimee Mann, Bessie Smith, Grateful Dead, Satchmo, Johnny Cash, P Funk, and anything sung by my four year old.

Books:

or authors I love: John Banville, Flannery O'Connor, James Ellroy, anyone with the last name Dubus or Burke, especially the ones I'm related to, Bruce Wagner, Arthur Phillips, Dani Shapiro, ee cummings, Richard Yates, Milan Kundera, Pema Chodrun, PD James, Michael Connelly, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Chandler, Hubert Selby, Jr, Martin Amis, T.S. Eliot, Ha Jin, Edna O'Brien, Richard Ford, Walker Percy, Anita Brookner, Jean Rhys, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Carl Hiaasen, Natalie Angier, Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Steinbeck, Brecht, Harold Pinter, Junot Diaz, Styron, Faulkner, Truman Capote, D.H. Lawrence, Salinger, Carson McCullers, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James M. Cain, and for my sons: Sandra Boynton, Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, and anything about trucks- who knew backhoe loaders were so cool?