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"Too much traffic"
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
This is a good list
that makes me want to read Nick Brooks' novel The Good Death
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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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This one sounds good
"You see, I am bad, aren't I?"
Eighteenth-century tidbits #3
Fame
A vast and wondrous estate
Nanny confessionals
Eighteenth-century tidbits #2
Brenda Maddox on matters Joycean
This is a good list
The Rael thing
The light reading fit came on very strongly
Martha Nussbaum's furious and devastating New Repu...
The Scottish play
Ian Jack on rejecting Martha Gellhorn's last publi...
It's never the animal's fault
Glasgow/art
The fiction issue of the NYRB
Michael Feingold profiles actor Alvin Epstein
John Lanchester is blogging the World Cup
A lifelong dream
Inking in the mothholes
Paperbacks
Lassie was a girl and Rin Tin Tin was a boy
Someone came up with a very clever title
Radical drag
Eighteenth-century tidbits #1
A good post about the New York Review of Books
One of the outrageous luxuries
And in the NYTBR letters section
A rather wonderful review
At the Guardian Review
I think I have a favorite book of 2006
At the London Review of Books
I nurse a not-very-secret passion
Two particularly good things
My colleague Jim Shapiro
Tune in, turn on, drop out
Human freedom and genetic determinism
Trains and blue denim
Demented beach reads
Membership libraries
Nineteenth-century ninjas
I want to read
A photographer's memoir
William Empson's letters
Lego mash-ups
The spirit of competition
Tonsilized
Tinned pineapple and glace cherries
The human voice
On Trying to Keep Still
Robert Birnbaum interviews Lawrence Weschler
A one-legged person trapped in a two-legged body
Sledging
The early 1970s vibe
Can I just say
Thoroughly debauched, almost medieval
Lisa Allardice interviews Sarah Waters
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