About stefanie_bean

Home Region:
United States :: Missouri :: St. Louis

Website: http://stefanie-bean.livejournal.com/

Favorite novels: The Golden Notebook, Children of Violence, the Canopus in Argos series (all by D. Lessing), Little Big, The Translator (Crowley), The Rediscovery of Man (C. Smith), Lolita (Nabokov), The Fountainhead (Rand), More Than Human (Sturgeon), The Violent Bear it Away, Everything that Rises Must Converge (O'Connor), The Inheritors, Lord of the Flies (both by Wm. Golding), Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome (both by W. Percy), Confederacy of Dunces (JK Toole)

Favorite writers: Doris Lessing, John Crowley, Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, William Golding, Theodore Sturgeon, Flannery O'Connor, John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy, Cordwainer Smith

Favorite music: Leonard Cohen, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Incredible String Band, "pop-era" (pop opera, like Amici), Jacques Brel, ass't musical theater

Non-noveling interests: art, opera, musical theater, phantom of the opera, genetics, human evolutionary theories, folklore, mythology, jungian psychology, outsider art