People

Adrienne Brodeur

by Rosecrans Baldwin

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

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.
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Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded The Morning News. His latest book, Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An excerpt is available at GQ. More information can be found at his website. More by Rosecrans Baldwin