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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- Sunday frivolity
- Female noir
- The blood-bond of Siamese twins
- In a random coincidence
- A premonition streak
- Banville on Roth's Everyman
- Diana Evans reviews Gautam Malkani's first novel
- Ten is the safest age
- Good TLS things
- Queer as a clockwork orange
- Mark Slouka challenges the integrity of the Columb...
- I am hell-bent
- I had a minor internal literary psychodrama
- Nothing to do with books
- Of particular interest
- New York was unsettling
- Alan Warner
- Ron Rosenbaum on Lingua Franca
- Maud Newton interviews Keith Gessen
- Justin Beplate on Beckett Remembering / Rememberin...
- James Morrow's top ten books
- Kansas noir
- Hangman, Unborn Twin, Maggot
- The digested read
- I have several particular favorite
- Human perversity
- Unreliable narrators
- Proof-reading....
- The book problem
- Spark links
- Muriel Spark is dead
- The new kind of memory
- The Financial Times
- Sharks!
- Meghan O'Rourke on Harvey Mansfield's Manliness
- If I was in NY on Monday
- Hilary Mantel on Robespierre
- Paul Collins on a strange stuttering novel
- Brain-twisters circa 1970
- Brit noir
- Buffon on cats
- TLS time of the week
- Maxine Clarke reviews Martyn Waites
- Imaginary books and libraries
- Fukuyama digested
- Ben Yagoda on NYT book reviewer Michiko Kakutani
- It hasn't been light enough
- Leslie McDowell on Jenny Diski's journeys into the...
- Deborah Solomon meets her match
- I am excited to read
- I have a complete obsession
- Frivolity
- Sex and television
- Miscellaneous interesting things
- Alexandra Jacobs on Caitlin Flanagan
- On composition
- Austen v. Brunton
- You can call it synchronicity
- On writing novels
- I'm writing elsewhere
- I have been reading Derrida recently
- And don't click
- White guys are still in charge
- Problems that come in little packets
- Salman Rushdie
- I am a great fan
- On writing and smoking
- Did you know
- Michael Chabon offers an interesting and rather un...
- Bad novels
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I wonder whether it was deliberate, that very spooky death-mask display.
ReplyDeleteGrim stuff. Quite agree about the death mask!
ReplyDeleteTalking of male dominance, I thought Lyn Scanlon's entry in her excellent blog is hilarious on this front. This is just how I would have felt!
http://www.thepublishingcontrarian.com/2006/04/04/wicked-witch-slips-business-card-to-rodale-ceo-steve-murphy-at-the-harvard-club/
Don't know if you follow Lyn's blog but it is well worth it. She calls herself the "wicked witch" of publishing...."white witch" more like!