Nabokov's "Lolita", "Speak, Memory"… Collette, especially "Claudine at School"… "Anne Franks Diary"… Ester Hauzigs' "The Endless Steppe"… "Harriet the Spy" by Lois (what's her last name?)… "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann…Sylvia Platts' poetry, John Donne, Flauberts' "Madame Bovary", "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald…
My favorite films are -- "My Life as a Dog" - Lasse Halstron… "Alice Doesn't Like Here Any More" - M. Scorcese… "Gone With the Wind", "Annie Hall" - Woody Allen, "Bringing up Baby"… "The Vanishing" (the French version - very scary!)… "North by Northwest", "The Birds" - Hitchcock, … "Smoke" - the Paul Austen film… "To Kill a Mockingbird" (the scene with Scout dressed as the ham being attacked)
I love Soutine, Matisse, Henry Darger, Eva Hesse, Francesca Woodman, Brancusi, Giaccometti, Morandi, De Kooning, Ellen Gallagher, Winogrand, Robert Frank, Vemeer, Bonnard, Boucher, Fra Angelico, Watteau, Sophie Calle, Caravaggio, Gordon Matts Clark…
