Good enough for Proust...

Over the coming weeks, we're going to offer a peek into the collective psyche of an agency. Be afraid. Agents and authors of DGLM will answer a short version of the famous Proust questionnaire (Proust Lite, if you will). To kick us off:

Miriam Goderich

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Being stuck in an elevator, train, airplane or any other closed space for any length of time without a book.

• What is your idea of earthly happiness?

Aside from staring at my kid? Lounging on a beach with a cold drink, a salty snack, a book I can’t put down and nowhere I have to be anytime soon.

• Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Lawrence Durrell’s Justine, Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin, Elizabeth Bennett, William Styron’s Sophie, William Faulkner’s Quentin, E. Annie Proulx’s Quoyle, and so many others…

• Who are your favorite characters in history?

Benjamin Disraeli, Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Benjamin Franklin, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz...

• Your favorite painter?

Rembrandt

• Your favorite musician?

Bach, Liszt, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Costello, Pink, Brandi Carlile (see the problem here?)

• Who would you have liked to be?

I would've liked to have qualities of certain people (Billie Holiday's signing voice, Virginia Woolf's way with words, Humphrey Bogart's cool, Coco Chanel's fashion sense, etc.) but not all their baggage.