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"Too much traffic"
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Deborah Solomon
meets her match in Harvey C. Mansfield
, whose book
Manliness
is one I think I must read although it will make my blood boil.
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About Me
Jenny Davidson
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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A few pieces
My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012)
"Guided by the Lit" (Bookforum, summer 2011)
"Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
"The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)
Books
The Magic Circle
Invisible Things
The Explosionist
Heredity
Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
(read the introduction
here
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
My other blogs
Triaspirational
The Explosionist
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Meghan O'Rourke in Slate
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This post comes with a disclaimer
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There is no particular reason
Read it and weep!
Household deer
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I am not sure I agree with the premise
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Dipping in rather than reading properly
A dedication to Derek Raymond and Ken Bruen
Top 50 players in the world of (UK) publishing
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