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Dinty W. Moore

The five questions for professor, writer, and editor Dinty Moore, who cites Steve Martin as a hero.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Womack
Andrew Womack is a founding editor of The Morning News. He is always working on the next installment of the Albums of the Year series at TMN. You can and follow his Twitter updates here.
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Site: Brevity

DOB: 11 August, 1955

What do you do:
I’m founder, editor, designer, development director, and office assistant for Brevity, an on-line magazine of concise literary nonfiction. On the side, I write books and teach college students to think.

Favorite Books:
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes; Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene

Heroes:
Kurt Vonnegut, Steve Martin, Thich Nhat Hanh

What makes you laugh:
Outrageousness

Charity worth giving to:
Seva Foundation

Five words that sound good:
flabbergasted, donnybrook, folderol, parsnippany, boddhisatva
—Published February 8, 2002