CURRENT MISSION

to escape the city for a bit

ABOUT ME

A native New Yorker (Manhattanite), I now live in Paris, where I moved after I graduated from college last year. I'm currently a freelance writer working mainly on book reviews. I'm drawn to cities--it's an inevitable consequence of my childhood--but I want to break out of my urban bubble. When I do make it into nature, mountains are my preferred landscape.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have couch surfed once before, in Istanbul last spring--was great, here I am again.

Interests

Books; exploring and living in new places; complicated recipes; biking downhill; contemporary Indian history; brunch, banana bread and good bagels; early evening.

• writing
• books
• recipes
• cycling
• freelancing
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Selection from my iTunes Top 25 Most Played: "No Intention" by the Dirty Projectors; "Don't Ask for the Water" by Ryan Adams; "Heartbeats" by the Knife; Partita #3 in E by Bach. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of baroque music. I'd like to make a cover album of "Blood on the Tracks."

Favorite books I've read over the past few months: Pale Fire (Nabokov); Blood Meridian (McCarthy); Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee); Birds of America (Moore).

Films: Les Enfants du Paradis; The Graduate; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swerving through the Andes in the back of a flatbed truck, chased by a van full of the driver's angry relatives.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, India, United States