About geography

Location: Oakland, CA

Home Region:
USA :: California :: East Bay

Age:26

Favorite novels: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Infinite Jest, Weight, 2666, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Subterraneans, Crying of Lot 49, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The End of the Story, books that fall on my head

Favorite writers: Italo Calvino, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Vowell, Jane Austen, Guy Debord, Tom Robbins, Chuck Klosterman, Henry Miller

Favorite music: The Album Leaf, Rilo Kiley, The Notwist, The Weakerthans, Magnet, Azure Ray, Elliott Smith, Great Lake Swimmers, The Velvet Teen and Kelly Clarkson, i mean: more indie dirges and so on ad nauseum

Non-noveling interests: memorizing international postal codes as part of my duties as (former) NaNoWriMo Shipping Captain, copyediting scientific jargon, imagining geologic time, other such cloak and dagger stuff