Food: Coolhaus' Dirty Mint Chip ice cream
Book: Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
by Jennifer Palmieri
Music: Backstreet Boys
Film: The Dead Zone directed by David Cronenberg
Misc: Walking for 5-7 miles everyday
Music: Swing music and “cowboy music” including Riders in the Sky
Food: “All the different shapes” of pasta, envy apples and peanut butter
Book: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
Film: First Man directed by Damien Chazelle and the documentary Three Identical Strangers directed by Tim Wardle
Misc: Learn to tie knots
Music: Jeri Southern “I Thought of You Last Night “ and “You Better Go Now”
Film: Johnny Guitar is a 1954 western drama directed by Nicholas Ray starring Joan Crawford
Book: Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
Food: Sweet potato fries
Misc: Opera! A favorite is Eugene Onegin the version with Anna Netrebko at The Met
Food: Filipino food! Check out I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook by Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad
Music: Obsessed with Audra McDonald Sing Happy live
Book: There, There by Tommy Orange and Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Tv: Grace and Frankie and Dog Day Afternoon directed by Sidney Lumet
Misc: UNIQLO scarves
Food: Japanese and Sicilian food
Music: listen to Bach “The Cello Suites” by Yo Yo Ma old jazz like Nina Simone + Ella Fitzgerald and female acoustic mellow music
Tv: The Americans, The Handmaid's Tale, The Night Of, and Killing Eve
Books: Joan Didion, James Salter and Raymond Carver
Misc: “My hour at the gym everyday”
Music: Miles Davis and John Coltrane collaborations
Book: The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams
Food: Speedy Romeo’s Pizza
Tv: Sharp Objects on HBO
Misc: Improvisation, working on a new story and being in that creative zone
Food: Korean Omelette with wavy things like leaves maybe seaweed
Tv: Succession on HBO
Music: Rapper Tierra Whack
Book: No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal and If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
Misc: Getting a dog
Music: The Mr. T Experience especially “Love Is Dead”
Food: The Windmill Village Bakery outside of Missoula, MT makes the best donuts in the world
Book: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Misc: Fresh tomatoes and produce in general
Music: Tupac Shakur
Book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Food: Steak
Films: Good Will Hunting, The Godfather and A Beautiful Mind
Misc: Writing “even if you don’t see yourself as a writer”
Food: Big Joan’s Gumbo in Chicago
Music: Janelle Monáe
Tv: Scandal on ABC
Book: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Misc: Children
Book: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Music: Thelonious Monk
Food: A really well-made pizza! Modern Apizza in New Haven
Misc: Living near snapping turtles
Food: My Mom’s South Indian Curry
Book: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Music: World music including Latin American, Cuban and Senegalese
Tv: Grace and Frankie
Misc: Dancing to Hip-Hop music
Food: Ramen
Music: Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book
Tv: Billions and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Book: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Misc: Parenthood
Food: Good Olive Oil
Music: Cardi B
Book: The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten
Tv: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Misc: "My daughter" and Yoga app Calm
Book: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner and Any Man by Amber Tamblyn
Food: the best grilled cheese sandwich is in Borough Market in London tiny stand and Lowerline in Brooklyn
Music: Toddler Tunes Channel 1824
Film: Ladybird and Black Panther
Misc: My sister Wendy "because my mom is sick and she has been amazing"
Food: Escarole
Music: Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor
Film: Long Strange Trip directed by Amir Bar-Lev
Book: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us by Richard Prum
Misc: no answer
Food: Pizza with mashed potato, scallion, and bacon from OTTO Pizza in Boston, MA
Music: The Hamilton soundtrack
Book: Carly Simon’s book Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
Film/Tv: Another Period on Comedy Central
Misc: "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
Book: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Food: Moqueca (Brazilian Fish Stew)
Music: Sly and the Family Stone's “A Family Affair”
Film: Nashville, a satirical musical comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman
Misc: A Paul Smith suit and folk art
Food: Pomelo Fruit
Books: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust
Cake: Lemon Pound Cake
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion”
Films: Top Hat with Fred Astaire, Citizen Kane, Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), Bringing Up Baby, and My Man Godfrey
Misc: Walking
Music: Brad Mehldau’s Blues and Ballads and "Frauenliebe und -leben," (“Woman’s Love and Life”) song cycle by Robert Schumann
Food: Spiralizer to make veggie pasta
Book: Anything by Ann Patchett particularly Commonwealth
Film/Tv: Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; and the tv show Ozark
Misc: Music meditation while walking and "my two fabulous daughters"
