Dana Goodyear
Dana Goodyear
Dana Goodyearis an American journalist and poet, the author of the forthcoming book Anything That Moves, and the co-founder of Figment, an on-line literary community. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
address poems
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
mind
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.