Links
Friends, Colleagues, and Interests
- David Alm is a journalist, ghostwriter, editor, and adjunct professor at Hunter College. He's also an all-round great guy. We met at the University of Chicago, and before I moved to Paris we shared an apartment in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. You can check out his Web site here.
- Shonali Banerjee is a Paris-based yoga instructor and a longtime friend from New York. She is married to one of my oldest and best friends, Steven Schattenberg, the Director of Digital Operations at the International Herald Tribune in Paris.
- Casey Merkin is another writer from Maryland who recently moved to France. You can read about his experiences in Paris on his highly entertaining blog, Les Chroniques de Bruce.
- Jonathan O'Bierne is an Editor/Producer at CNN. Aside from writing the original version of Elysian Fields, he has also helped enormously with all of the short film projects I've done. Check out his brilliant Flickr page and his short film, Bananas in Bedlam, a dark comedy about what happens to storybook characters once they've fallen from the limelight. You can also see his reel on his Web site.
- Kristen Brennan lives in L.A., where she works with autistic children. As a girl, she used to steal peanut butter from the bulk-sized Peter Pan jar in my pantry, now she is a talented actress and a producer with the Son of Semele Ensemble.
- My sister, Debbie Henry, has been keeping a blog called The Henry Family Adventures in which she shares amusing stories about her husband, Brian, and her two wonderful little girls, Olivia and Sydney. Between philosophical musings, she also manages to blow off a healthy amount of steam.
- Ari Lauren is a talented musician I met in grad school who ended up being part of the U of C diaspora in New York. She has helped out with virtually all of my short film projects, and you should check out her Web site to learn more about her and to hear samples off her four-track EP, Relish.
- Victor Flores, a Chilean lawyer and my roommate in Paris, is also a fantastic photographer and writer. We are working together to produce a film version of his short story "*.tmp". His blog contains great photos and tales of living in Paris.
- Nicolas Flippe is a writer and vendor of rare books in Paris. Originally from Aix-en-Provence, he has written a book on Cézanne, and he is currently writing another on Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fueva, the Frenchman who coined the word communism.
- Pianist/keyboardist Jason Domnarski lives in New York, and his projects include his own jazz trio and two indie-rock bands, Spielerfrau and Special Patrol.