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Friday, November 21, 2008

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Mena G. Trott

Five questions for Movable Type creator and Web designer Mena G. Trott.

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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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Site: Dollarshort

DOB: 16 September, 1977

What do you do:
I worry. Quite a lot. And, I’m a designer, brainstormer and one half of the Movable Type team—the other half being my husband, Ben.

Favorite Books:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz, and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

Heroes:
Serge Gainsbourg, Dorothy Parker, The Bronte Sisters.

What makes you laugh:
The old stand-by response used to be ‘humor at another person’s expense.’ But now that I know better, I’ll stick with safe answers: I’m Alan Patridge, The Kids in the Hall, Christopher Guest films

Charity worth giving to:
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Five words that sound good:
mezcla / bottleneck / imagineering / pamplemousse / licorice
—Published November 30, 2001