candice
General details
candice
NYC
Tennille Candice Astor
BMCC, Hunter
English
In short
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Before my 2 beautiful children burst into my life I was heavily into reading, writing, music, movies, and the harder-to-do-thing, travelling! This has scaled down somewhat but still remains... I'd love for us to travel the world one day :-)
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I was in the paper once for breastfeeding my son on the train- I forgot that it was going to get media coverage. It was 'World Breastfeeding Week' at the time so I went out and showed(!) my support. When nursing in public I try not to be as discreet as possible. It also made the evening news for about 30 seconds.
Someone was making a documentary about nursing and I appear in it somewhere for about a second:
http://www.wmm.com/advscripts/wmmvideo.aspx?pid=82
My writing once appeared on the same newspaper, the "Voice of the People" section where I complained about an article there that put down my entire generation, saying we were 'cosseted and coddled'. This was their response to the Woodstock '97 riots in Rome, NY. I guess they liked my complaint b/c they entitled my letter, "Youthful Wisdom". That was decent of them. And it made me find out what 'cosseted' actually meant!
I've been in off-off-off broadway plays so that might count as a tiny margin of a slither of fame, who knows. I didn't really do it for the fame, I just wanted to act.
Last but not least, I once made WEbooker of the WEek in May of 2008. That was pretty sweet. I hope to get something published here and really enjoy checking out everyone's work!
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My Favorites: Reading and Writing
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Fiction: Gay/Lesbian, Historical Fiction, Humor/Satire, Literary, Political, Religious/Inspirational, Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Body, Mind & Spirit, Cooking, Food & Wine, Gay/Lesbian, History, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Parenting & Family, Politics & Current Affairs, Reference, Religion, Self-Help, Sex & Relationships, Travel, Women's Studies
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Latino Boom (anthology), Sanity's Bane, Chango's Fire, Flowers for Algernon, brave new world, fear of flying, why the cocks fight-DR Haiti and the struggle for Hispaniola, Type Talk, Who's Writing This?, New Astrology, The Book by Allan Watts, Kindred by Octavia Butler...
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Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
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A toss up btwn in my bed and riding on a train
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Fiction: Humor/Satire, Literary, Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction: Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Parenting & Family, Reference, Women's Studies
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I'm weirded out by this, but I keep coming back to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Holly Golightly! I think I'm referring to Audrey Hepburn's movie version, though I enjoyed Capote's book- I might just be more intrigued with the late, great Ms. Hepburn than anything and so cannot really answer this question well. And I just want go through my days in cute little black dresses addressing everyone as "darling" as 'Sally Tomato' tells me about snow flurries in New Orleans...
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I think Julia Alvarez is on point so many times and I love Judith Ortiz Cofer, the little amt of I've read of her. I'll add Junot Diaz and NOT because he's another Latino whose name begins with the letter "J"- my pattern here is mere coincidence!
I'm also in awe of several stand-up comedians and comedy writers. They're not authors but they're WRITERS, writing their own material, doesn't that count?
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