Marisha Pessl

Old Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock, film noir, Broadway, Katharine Hepburn, slang, Wes Anderson, The Talk of the Town, socialitelife.com, Saul Steinberg, Martin McDonagh, Bloc Party, Francesco Clemente, The New York City Ballet, Coco Chanel, Charles Dickens, James Gandolfini, art deco furniture, Aubrey Beardsley, Un homme et une femme, Marcello Mastroianni, black and white portrait photography, Paris, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Jazz Age, “The Dead,” 1960s French and Italian cinema, Mario Batali restaurants, tea at Brown’s, Edith Wharton, Arden editions of Shakespeare, horses, Debussy, Ian McEwan, David Mamet, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elia Kazan, Egon Schiele, Cassell’s Movie Quotations, Gene Kelly, On the Waterfront, Giacometti, Pnin, Matisse, Charles D’Ambrosio, John Patrick Shanley, Romancing the Stone, Tamara de Lempicka, Oscar Wilde, The Nature Channel, Neapolitan Mastiffs, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, Jimmy Stewart, George Cukor, Michael Mann, Nat King Cole, portable encyclopedias, It Happened One Night, Clive Owen, The Killers, W magazine, Ogden Nash, Quentin Tarantino and gnocchi.