Adrienne Brodeur
Zoetrope All-story founder and editor Adrienne Brodeur answers the five questions, with a little help from her friends.
DOB: 15 October, 1965
What do you do: I’m the editor of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story.
Favorite Books:Anna Karenina,Heart of Darkness,The Lover,The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing,Charlotte’s Web,Love in the Time of Cholera,The Great Gatsby,The Wrecking Yard,A Good Man is Hard to Find … I could go on and on and on and on.
Heroes: My friends!
What makes you laugh: Little kids—preferably under five—playing any team sport (soccer being the most entertaining with regards to the landing-on-the-butt factor); dogs when they know they’ve done something wrong; when bad things happen to bad people; my friends.
Charity worth giving to: Any starving artist or writer.
Five words that sound good: Peccadillo, audacious, sarsaparilla, onomatopoeia, weimaraner.