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Editor and blogger Maggie Berry answers the five questions with love for Katherine Graham, Dave Eggers, and Nabokov.

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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. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. His personal web site is useless. Every month he makes a new Muxtape. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon with Riverhead Books.
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Site: Mighty Girl

DOB: 21 October, 1975

What do you do:
Managing Editor for Web Techniques Magazine

Favorite book:
Lolita by Nabokov or The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Heroes:
Katherine Graham, Oprah Winfrey

What makes you laugh:
Absurdity a la Dave Eggers, Greg Knauss, Canadians

Charity worth giving to:
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America

Five words that sound good:
gouache, Lichtenstein, chimichanga, schadenfreude, Donahue
—Published August 15, 2001