Reading
--swashbucklers, detectives, sidekicks, spies, antiheroes, the French, the British, the Irish, soldiers, orphans, neighbors, heart-breakers, alcoholics, the Lost Generation, politics, movies, students, mediums, policemen, hippies, unrequited love, ambiguity, good fathers, good friends, the West, pirates, food, families.
--fiction, nonfiction, plays, journals, blogs, newspapers, magazines, Facebook, billboards, post-it notes, messages, open books, closed books, textbooks, hefty tomes, the very long, the very heavy, the very short, the very light, rants, lists, lists, lists, series, rankings, recaps, summaries, parodies, dust jackets, DVD covers, roadsigns, recipes, warning labels.
--to educate, enlighten, entertain, escape.

Writing
--prose writing, essay writing, play writing, screenwriting, blogging, long winded e-mails, formats of the future.
--historical fiction, literary fiction, fan fiction (in the abstract), young adult fiction, HBO series, serials in general, detective fiction, straight plays, documentary theater.
--for profit, for pleasure, for accolades, to expose people to new possibilities, to work out answers, to ask questions, to figure out life, to make lists.
--strong smart women and the men who love them, partners on equal footing, real life fictionalized, priests, gays, Cyrano de Bergerac, readers, wall flowers, Adventure Girls, inhabitants of the drawing room, foreigners, old folks, Mabel, myself.