candice

Join Date: 5/1/2008

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  • candice

  • NYC

  • Tennille Candice Astor

  • BMCC, Hunter


  • English

In short

  • 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 :-)

  • 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!

    :-)

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • 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

  • 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...
  • Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
  • A toss up btwn in my bed and riding on a train

  • Fiction: Humor/Satire, Literary, Women's Fiction

    Non-Fiction: Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Parenting & Family, Reference, Women's Studies

  • 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...
  • 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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