Marlene Nichols

If you could learn anything instantly by downloading it into your brain Matrix-style, what would it be?
I’d learn every language in the world.

First music memory (first song you remember hearing or learning)?
Chopin’s Nocturn in C minor.

Who would you invite dead or alive to your fantasy dinner party?
The playwright Sam Shepard and his dear friend the goddess Patti Smith; Etgar Keret my favorite mischievous Israeli writer, the singer and wisdom maker Nick Cave, my Texas grandmother Mary Alice and my German Oma, Irmgard (who would both be winning at the poker game after), Hilma af Kilnt, who we now know pioneered abstract art, the designers Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn and Truman Capote, John Paul Gautier the designer; my Millner friend Erica Elizabeth; and Julia Child.