Avital
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Female
48 years old
Florianópolis
Brazil
Last Login: 3/2/2009
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| General | Books, movies, music, design, art and artists, far places, slightly radical sports, my family, my dog, great minds, good food and wine, yoga, stretching, running, sitting at a cafe. Ah, naturally: a better world. | | Music | Eric Clapton, Marisa Monte, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Billy Holiday, Nay Mottogrosso, The songs of George Gershwin, Cat Power, Beatles, 10,000 Maniacs, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Maryanne Faithful, Elvis Costello, Chico Buarque, Maria Betanha, U2, Tom Jobin, Emma Shaplin, Madredeus, Yehuda Poliker, Micha Shitrit, Grieg, Bach, Motzart, Bethoveen, Placebo, Radiohead, and others. | | Movies | The Barbarian invasions, Dogville, Broken Flowers, The Bride's Son, Elsa and Fred,
The Piano Teacher, The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran), The Hours, Fucking Amal, Hotel Rwanda, Sunset Blvd. Dear Frankie, The Sea Within,My Little Shop of Horrors, Suddenly Last Summer, The Graduate, The Godfather, Separate Tables, The Servant, I capture the Castle, Talk to Her, Amores Perros, Being John Malkovich, Drugstore Cowboy, City of God, Memento, Sex, Lies, And Videotape, The Great Dictator, Vertigo,
Almodovar's, Woody Allen's, Billy Wilder's, Bunuel's, Monty Python's, Marx Brothers, other great directors.
| | Television | Films, biographies, The Actor Studio, Soprano, some E, Two and a Half Men, Curb your Enthusiasm, Everybody Hates Chris, re-runs of Frasier, Seinfeld and Mad About You. | | Books | Mikhail Bulgakov-The Master and Margarita, Heart of a Dog
Gabriel Garcie Marquez-A 100 Years of Solitude, The Innovcent Arandira and her cruel Grandmother, My Melancholic Whores, Love in years of Cholera
Borges-Labyrinth, Sabato-Tombs and Heroes, Alice Munro-Friends of my Youth, TC Boyle-Water Music, Banana Yoshimoto-Kitchen, Joseph Heller-Catch-22, Jean Genet's books, Amos Oz-Masa Dabiel, David Grossman-Runner, Yesh Yeladim Zigzag,
Haruki Murakami-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood
Michael Cunningham-The Hours
Stephen Elliot-Happy Baby
Margaret Atwood-Cat's Eye, Alias Grace
John Cheever-Collected Stories
John Steinbeck-The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden
John Irving-The World According to Garp
Mark Twain-Stories
Paul Auster-The New York Trilogy, Leviathan
Denis Johnson-Jesus' Son
Peter Hoeg-Miss Smila Snow Sense, Borderlines
Charles Bukowski-The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Doris Lessing-The Golden Notebook
Milan Kundera-The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, Immortality
Bertold Brecht-A Penny worth Romance
Scott Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby
Oscar Wilde-Collected Stories
Marcel Proust-Albertine Disappeared
Anton Chekov-Selected Stories,
Luis Ferdinand Céline-The Journey to The End of the Night
Sulman Rushdie-The Satanic Verses
Larence Durrel-Balthazar (The Alexandrian Quartet)
Graham Greene-My Travels with my Aunt, England Made Me,
Kurt Vonnegut-Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse 5
Romain Gary-Kites
Stephen Elliot-Happy Baby
J.D. Salinger's-9 Stories
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Avital 's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
I love adventure but I am usually napping.
I live in Brazil on a beautiful island called Flórianopolis with my husband and two children.
I was born and raised in Israel, where I moved from Askelon to Bat-Yam to Jerusalem and spent lots of time in Tel-Aviv and Kiryat Motskin.
I used to be a lawyer, an interior decorator, a teacher of English and of creative writing and a manufacturer of green dolls. But now I am a fiction writer. My work has been published in anthologies and in magazines in print and on line and has been nominated for the Pushcart three times.
Some of the wonderful magazines that gave my stories homes are McSweeney's, Glimmer Train, Other Voices, Stand, Happy, and Prism International. I'll list them all below, in case you're one of the few who love long lists.
I have completed a novel (in the rounds) and I am at work on another.
I hope to write here about books I read and films I see.
LongList:
Michigan quarterly review, Portland Magazine, Stumbling and Raging-Politically Inspired Fiction Anthology, MacAdam/Cage ..right here
Other Voices 43, McSweeney's issue 17, The Salt Flats Annual #1, Descant, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself Mw Enterprises book publication, Stand Magazine, Glimmer Train 50, Gargoyle Magazine, Midnight Mind 7, The Binnacle First Annual Ultra-Short Edition, Thought Magazine VI, Sexy Stranger, Mitochondria's First Anthology of Rarities & Loose Ends, Raven Chronicles, Wild Strawberries, Bridge No. 7/8, Prism International, BigNews, Nemonymous, Yellow Bat Review, Snow Monkey, Imago, AIM Quarterly, HAPPY, Best American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century Anthology, Trvelers' Tales, Gambara Magazine, NOÖ Journal.
Salon, Mondadori,(Italian), Salon, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Warehouse Fiction, PindeldybozIn Posse Review Webdelsol The Ethnic Anthology, Carve Magazine, Pig Iron Malt,
The Absinthe Literary Review,Salt River Review, Vestal Review, Literary Potpoury, Hobart, 3am, Inkburns, Locus Novus (with motion, design and sound), Front Street Review, Arriviste Press, Smokelong Quarterly, Moonshinestill", The Danforth Review, Vestal Review, Gambara
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anybody who makes me laugh and think and feel comfortable, good friends who live far away, Pedro Almodovar, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Jose Saramago, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcie Marquez, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Peter Hoeg, Haruki Murakami, Milan Kundera, Stephen Elliot, George Saunders, Meryl Streep, the editors with whom I exchanged emails and that were so nice-to thank them. Also, quite a few great dead people (but not too soon.)
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