SDQ Interview with Dana Reinhardt.

Dana Reinhardt is the author of the absolutely wonderful fantastic (and fabulous) a brief chapter in my impossible life.  Read it.

Book Currently Reading:

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

CDs Currently in Rotation:

I’m all about the IPOD shuffle.  So here are some of the songs I’m shuffling right now:

Sly and the Family Stone’s cover of Que Sera, Sera
The Proclaimers--Letter From America
Dusty Springfield--Son of a Preacher Man
Rufus Wainwright’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

Last Movie Viewed:

Best of Youth on DVD.  A six-hour Italian miniseries that blew me away.

Literary Crush (real or fictional):

It’s a toss up between Tom McNeal and Markus Zusak.  I’ve been on book tour with them for two weeks and they are both amazing.

Pet Peeve:

When someone else is sitting in my favorite seat at Peet’s Coffee.

Current Obsessions:

The deplorable state of traffic in LA and growing a vegetable garden in a stretch of dirt that only gets a small window of direct sunlight every day.

Guilty Pleasure:

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Irrational Fear:

Demons and thunder. Neither feels irrational to me, but that’s the thing about fear: it never feels irrational to someone in the throws of it.

Favorite Word/Phrase:

Balls. I love that. Balls. It’s so much better than Damn. Or any other four-letter word you can think of.

Comments

[Leila]

Awww. Dana, you shouldn't ever feel guilty about Degrassi.

[Lauren]

Is that a challenge? Balls is great, sure, but I can think of an awful lot of four letter words...

[Jen Robinson]

Thanks for posting this interview. I loved "A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life", and reviewed it recently myself. And I actually just read "Never Let Me Go", too. Guess I'm channeling Dana Reinhardt.