Available for book groups, writing classes and light cleaning.
Highly adoptable
My genre: Transubstantial Autobiography
My literary influences: Gogol, Kafka, Allen, God, Poe, Chekhov, Sophocles and assorted muses and ghosts.
My favorite literary quote: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita." (Nabokov)
Works equally well in Russian, which is absolutely not fair.
My favorite book of all time: Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
I’m currently reading: Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott. What can I say? I love an economist grudge match.
My guilty pleasure book: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. The Black Death and a failed crusade make for one juicy read.
I can’t write without: My fingers
Worst line I ever wrote: Usually the last one.
Brief Bio:
Born – yes
School – yes
College – yes
Graduate School – some
Work – yes
Wife – yes
Kids – yes
Dog – yes
Cat – yes
Hedgehog – sadly, no. RIP, Muddles
Turtle – no
Existential dread – and how
Lather Rinse Repeat – a collection of cautionary tales now available from your favorite e-book purveyor or davidtabak.net.