1. What do you dream about?

I have a very active dream life. I dream in color. I dream little movies. Very weird and detailed little movies. They are very interesting to me but I am afraid they would bore most people to death although they seem very symbolic, I think, and detailed. I dream every night and sometimes I have nightmares and my husband has to wake me up because I am yelling.

2. Is Virginia actualy for lovers?

Who the hell knows?

3. What 3 things would you save in the unfortunate event of a fire in your home? (aside from mammals)

My memory stick, my good jewelry and my photographs.

4. Name one celebrity (or famous person of any kind) dead or otherwise whose life you would like to loot—and be specific about the loot.

I would loot Philip Roth's mind.

5. Which of the following best describes you: When looking for inspiration, I (a) weigh information and make decision based on analysis of facts or (b) sleep on it—I’ll know in the morning.

Hmmmm. I lie in bed and things come to me. Or I listen to music and get my best opening lines for creative stuff or if I am stuck. For other stuff I weigh information and make a decision based on analysis of facts.

6. True or False: Things can only directly affect other things that are right next to them. If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect—the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B.

False.

7. What do you enjoy most and least about living with a man? Does he blog?

I enjoy having an intelligent man to talk to and do things with. I also enjoy a man who thinks I am beautiful and wants to make love to me. I don't enjoy having someone in my space all the time or sharing my bed with a snorer. My husband is all those things. And no he does not blog.


8. If you were suddenly endowed with a single day of magical powers to reshape the United States into whatever image you like, what would the U.S be like on day two?

We would all have health insurance, for one. There would be no one hungry, for two. I would love to see a lot less pollution and litter in general
but I would hate to just, say, make everyone a reader or a good person or get rid of drugs or crime or hatred because that would mean ridding the world of free will and that just seems too weird and Pollyannish. I would like to see drugs in general decriminalized for use among adults so that we could stop this dumb War on Drugs and use our resources elsewhere and I would love to see the general population take education seriously. Oh! And it would be lovely if we could get rid of reality television and if they would decide not to cancel ABC's Life on Mars.


9. What is your opinion about cover art? http://jezebel.com/5175401/the-april-elle-to-be-a-genius-is-to-be-privileged-expensive

Well, now you have gone and done it. Elle is my one of my favorite magazines. I actually subscribe to it along with the New Yorker and Harper's. I am being perfectly serious here. And while I appreciate Jezebel's parsing of the recent cover and as a serious woman know full well that the cover lines are shit and the women are airbrushed, I still read it and like it. It's my form of escapism and to paraphrase Mr. Heston you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

10. In a parallel universe, what are you doing right now?

Lying under an umbrella on a beach in Spain reading a book and sipping a Perrier.

11. Does blogging matter?

It does to me.

12. Why do you deserve a “bonus?”

Because I'm a damn good writer and a fantastic person. And I bought two pairs of beautiful shoes in Paris that I put on my credit card and don't really have the money to pay for.