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Occupation:
Boston Globe, writer (not for the Globe)
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Hobbies and Interests:
Writing, Reading, Cooking, Music, Indie movies, skiing, scuba diving, long drives.
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Favorite Books:
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Old Man and the Sea, The Trial, The Cathedral, Bowles, Marquez, Lahiri, Steinbeck, Wells, Ellison, Barthelme, Joyce, Parker, Carver, Woolf, Conrad, Beckett, Shirley Jackson, Bierce, Paley, Malamud, Roth, Singer, Burgess
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Favorite Movies:
Blank stare... Mystic River was good. I like to pick a title from the marquee and just walk in and I hardly ever read reviews. I'm just CRAZY like that. Um...Oliver Twist, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland & Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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Favorite Music:
Right now...Amy Miles, XTC, Rhett Miller (shoosh all of you), Jedediah Parish, Bettie Seveert, Replacements, The Jam, Morphine, Clinic, Interpol, Scud Mountain Boys.
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Favorite TV Shows:
Huh?
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Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
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About Me:
Too sane, considering.
www.mariamccarthy.com
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Who I Want to Meet:
I met him and we'll be meeting again, the bastid.
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several years but never met until one fateful
night at T.T. the Bear's Place. Within five
minutes of being introduced, Maria was
dragging me into the heart of a crowd of rock
fans, where we danced and jived and
consumed gallons of alcohol. We exchanged
email addresses and a week or two later I was
in her living room waiting for her to get ready
for another rock show when she slid into the
room wearing nothing but a towel. And it has
only gotten weirder from there. She is a
voracious reader and never watches movies.
She is a mere whisper of a girl and could easily
be blown away by a stiff wind. She is attracted
to creative geniuses, which is why we never
hooked up.
of your teeth that glisten
into a smile
which makes me
want to wrap myself completely
around you
tightly holding your head
keeping all that is bad--out
keeping your chin pressed into my
sternum, and the smell of your hair is
the music of great literature
encompassing all of your being.
A book within my tight binding
you are:
Jackson's Lottery
Lardner's Haircut
Kafka's Hunger Artist
Joyce's Little Cloud
you are:
Ginsberg's Howl
Faulkner's Bear
Chekhov's Darling
and where Carver is calling from
You are
the best anthology of words
while I am
working on all my rough drafts
you need her? I mean, shouldn't you be
in New York already? You know you're a
New York City girl at heart.