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Some Favorite Books:

FICTION:

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (all-time favorite)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (all-time favorite)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (all-time favorite)

Anything written by David Sedaris

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Kushiel series (e.g., Kushiel's Dart)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Crime and Punishment

Harry Potter series

Lord of the Rings series

The Bell Jar

 

NON-FICTION:

Anything scientific

Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem

Anything Steven Pinker writes, I love

Personal favorites: How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct

Some Favorite Movies:

Star Wars (love love love the original trilogy)

Lord of the Rings

Garden State

Amelie

Lost in Translation

Rushmore

The Royal Tennenbaums

I <3 Huckabee

Little Miss Sunshine

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Spider-Man trilogy

X-Men trilogy

Indiana Jones

Eagle vs Shark

Seven Samurai (and many other Akira Kurosawa movies)

 

Gymkata is a also tremendous movie. So bad, it's great.

 

 

Some Favorite TV Shows:

Arrested Development

Six Feet Under

Wonderfalls

Malcom in the Middle

The X- Files

Firefly

The Office (UK version)

Medium

Dead Like Me

Family Guy

Mr. Show

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Weeds

 

 

Some Favorite Music:

Modest Mouse (before Good News For People Who Love Bad News)

Radiohead

Low

British Sea Power

Matt Pond PA

Cat Power

New Pornographers

Bloc Party

Explosions in the Sky

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

Q and Not U

Islands (and The Unicorns)

Built to Spill

The Wrens

Spoon

The Shins

Interpol

Pixies

Broken Social Scene

Death Cab for Cutie

Metric

Wolf Parade

Tapes N' Tapes

Arcade Fire

Earlimart

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Franz Ferdinand

The Black Keys

The Decemberists

and more... you can see the music I listen to here.

 

 

 

 

I was born in the Antelope Valley in southern California, where I lived until I moved to Dayton, Ohio for graduate school at the University of Dayton. After getting my M.A. from Dayton, I entered Miami University's social psychology Ph.D. program, which is where I currently am. I live with the brilliant Steven Young. I have one sister and one cat, and that's where this short biography ends.

 

 

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