Books that shaped me: Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
The Bible, God?
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Inga Muscio
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Watership Down, Richard Adams
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle and her Time Quartet A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosphy South, the philosophy of the Buffyverse. For real.
etcetera.
Books I'm reading now:
Outlander Series, Diana Gabaldon
High Fidelity, and anything by Nick Hornby, who makes inner psychological drama funny and interesting
I Love Myself when i am laughing and then again when i am looking mean and impressive about Zora Neale Hurston's crazy "rebellious" life
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Women Who Run With the Wolves, Estes, again
Writer's Digest magazine
Literary Mama magazine
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, whose stories fit no mold
Twilight series - it makes me horny - I have a long-time vampire fascination
Books I'd recommend from my online writing classes:
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway
Writing Creative Nonfiction, ed. by Forche and Gerard
The 3 a.m. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises by Kiteley
Reading Like a Writer Francine Prose (really and truly, her last name is Prose)
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing New York Writer's Workshop
I never metaphor i didn't like Dr. Mardy Grothe
New class texts on deck:
Your Life as Story Rainer
The Best American Essays of the Century ed Joyce Carol Oates
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
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