DeLauné Michel
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Female
38 years old
New York
United States
Last Login: 9/4/2008
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DeLauné Michel's Interests
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| General | going to the park or the zoo or aquarium with my sons, writing, reading, running, Ashtanga yoga, boxing (watching the pros, especially Roy Jones, Jr., and hitting the heavy bag myself - supposedly I have a mean right hook, but I wouldn't be scared of me in the dark), meditating, interior design or as my husband says, are you changing that again?, throwing parties, dancing for hours, the South (especially South Louisiana, the Florida panhandle, and the I-10 drive between them), City Ballet, crossword puzzles with my husband, and the last great drug, sleep. | | Music | Muddy Waters, early REM, Bill Monroe, Rolling Stones, Glen Gould, Prince, Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Fats Waller, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers especially Benmont Tench, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucinda Williams, Led Zeppelin, Aimee Mann, Nirvana, Bessie Smith, Grateful Dead, Satchmo, Johnny Cash, P Funk, the Ramones, and "it's a small world after all" sung by my three year old. | | Movies | Boogie Nights, Seven Samurai, 400 Blows, Paper Moon, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Thin Man, Far From Heaven, Traffic, O, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, The Pianist, Rosemary’s Baby, Klute, The Others, Devil’s Backbone, Dead Man Walking, Bowfinger, Liar Liar, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Reds, Interiors, Crash, Syriana, the Graduate, Brokeback Mountain, Scarface, Good Fellas, Under the Sand, The Swimming Pool, Match Point, Drugstore Cowboy, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Departed, Gosford Park, Best in Show, Sideways, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buffalo ‘66, Y Tu Mama Tambian, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Breaking the Waves, A Fish Called Wanda, Groundhog Day, Raging Bull, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Ice Storm, A Simple Plan, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Election, Dr. Strangelove, Spirited Away, The Last Emporer, The Sweet Hereafter, Chinatown, Sling Blade, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. | | Television | Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, Meet the Press, Charlie Rose, The Sopranos, Laker games - though I guess I should like the Knicks now that I live in NY, but who are we kidding?, and TIVO for finding movies to watch. | | Books | or authors I love: John Banville, Flannery O’Connor, James Ellroy, Joan Didion, anyone with the last name Dubus or Burke, especially the ones I'm related to, Bruce Wagner, Arthur Phillips, Dani Shapiro, ee cummings, Richard Yates, Milan Kundera, Pema Chodrun, PD James, Michael Connelly, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Chandler, Hubert “Cubby” Selby, Martin Amis, T.S. Eliot, Ha Jin, Edna O’Brien, Richard Ford, Walker Percy, Alice Munro, Anita Brookner, Robert Crais, T. Jefferson Parker, Kevin Young, Jean Rhys, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Mary Karr, Bill Buford, Elizabeth Kolbert, Adam Gopnik, Kazuo Ishiguro, Dave Eggars, Carl Hiaasen, Natalie Angier, Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Steinbeck, Brecht, Pablo Neruda, Harold Pinter, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, John Kennedy Toole, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Faulkner, Truman Capote, D.H. Lawrence, Salinger, Carson McCullers, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James M. Cain, and for my sons: Sandra Boynton, Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, and anything about trucks- who knew backhoe loaders were so cool? | | Heroes | Mary, Thich Nhat Hanh, my husband, and my sons. |
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DeLauné Michel's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | new york | | Body type: | 5' 8" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | writer |
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About me:
Writer, former actress - or maybe not too former if acting like I know what I'm doing counts, producer of Spoken Interludes reading series, wife-y, and momma (that's what we call it in the South).
Click on the cover to buy the book from Amazon.
"Written with tremendous narrative velocity, The Safety of Secrets is almost impossible to put down. DeLauné Michel has crafted a story that manages to be several things at once: a hilarious inside look at Hollywood, a nuanced portrait of a friendship and its secrets, and a moving testament to the powerful effects of a destructive mother."
—Dani Shapiro, author of Black and White
"DeLauné Michel has written a terrifically funny book with a very tender heart. It manages to be wonderfully confessional and psychologically mysterious. The Safety of Secrets is the perfect curl-up-on-the-couch-and-read-all-day-long kind of book. It stays with you."
—Jill A. Davis, author of Ask Again Later
"DeLauné Michel's debut novel, Aftermath of Dreaming was remarkably assured and compelling. At once funny, moving, and richly evocative of contemporary Los Angeles, The Safety of Secrets more than confirms its promise."
—Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
"DeLauné Michel writes with the voice of a troubled angel, at once painfully funny and devastatingly real. Aftermath of Dreaming stands out as a first novel of both depth and passion, the kind of book readers can't help love, not just for the joy of fine writing, but for the comfort of recognition. In other words, the author's heart is as big as her talent."
—Jerry Stahl, author of Love Without
"Aftermath of Dreaming is like a jewelry box containing the precious, beautiful, and sometimes broken pieces of a young woman's psyche. DeLauné Michel makes a striking debut here, delivering a novel that is as emotionally earnest as it is socially astute."
—Meghan Daum, author of The Quality of Life Report
Spoken Interludes(TM) is a critically acclaimed literary salon produced by DeLauné Michel where award-winning, best-selling, and up-coming writers read their own work. The salon features writers such as: Ann Packer, Mona Simpson, Alice Sebold, Michael Korda, Arthur Phillips, Arianna Huffington, Michael Connelly, Jennifer Weiner, Jennifer Egan, and Christopher Moore, and has been heard on National Public Radio. Since its debut in 1996, Spoken Interludes has provided a place where people come together, enjoy great food, and hear stories like their own reflected in the voices of others. www.spokeninterludes.com
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