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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Adrienne Brodeur

Zoetrope All-story founder and editor Adrienne Brodeur answers the five questions, with a little help from her friends.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rosecrans Baldwin
TMN co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon from Riverhead Books. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column for TMN. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. Check out his personal site or .
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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.
—Published December 12, 2001