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Favorite movies
Aliens and Alien (note: only the first 2)
Blazing Saddles
The Graduate
Halloween
Little Big Man
Manhunter
Midnight Cowboy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Searchers
Witness

Some favorite novels
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
Ceremony, Leslie Silko
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll
Winter in the Blood, James Welch
Joe the Engineer, Chuck Wachtel
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Some favorite poems
"A Blessing," James Wright
"My Papa's Waltz," Theodore Roethke
"after great pain — a formal feeling comes," Emily Dickinson
"The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window," Joy Harjo
"Folk Songs," Charles Simic
"Novembers or Straight Life," Maureen Owen
"The Lost Pilot," James Tate
"At the Salvation Army," Simon J. Ortiz
"One Chip of Human Bone," Ray Young Bear
"Good Times," Lucille Clifton
"Married," Jack Gilbert
"She Had Some Horses," Joy Harjo

Some favorite movies you might never have seen
The Taking of Pelham 123
The Brave Little Toaster
Freaks (Directed by Tod Browning)
Assault on Precinct 13
The Waterdance
The Wanderers
Across 110th Street
Birdy
Tuff Turf
Searching for Bobby Fischer

Guilty pleasure movies
The Last American Virgin
Cousins
Footloose
The Posidean Adventure
Rocky 3
Vision Quest
Rudy
Lost Boys
Silverado
Any Which Way But Loose

Favorite mystery writers
Dennis Lehane
Sue Grafton
Michael Connelly
John D. McDonald
Eugene Izzi
Mary Willis Walker
Carl Hiassen
Ridley Pearson
Robert B. Parker
Elmore Leonard

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