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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.
A few pieces
Books
My other blogs
Blog Archive
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August
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- Did everyone other than me
- Great Jones!
- FSG goes into the trailer business
- At the TLS
- On Katrina
- Michiko Kakutani really, really doesn't like
- Back from the country
- The Emperor's Children
- Stage fright
- I do want
- Just a quick one
- The permanent record
- The hysterical five-dollar bill
- Swimming to Antarctica
- On annotation
- At the Storytellers Unplugged blog
- Vollmann's meat locker
- More Messud
- At the Observer Food Monthly
- The NYTBR reviewer
- At the Guardian Review
- I like these stories
- Lab report
- Inspirational thoughts #2
- There is something so refreshing
- Action at a distance
- Rape, insanity, incest, murder
- Melodramatic/businesslike
- I am just in love
- I've got nothing much to say
- Paul Collins mines eBay
- Doling out small amounts of fiction to myself
- I have just read
- Fearsome buckers
- The Sixth World Conference on Animal Breeding
- "I have just met my first genius"
- At the LRB
- Strong words
- On fidelity
- It is like magic....
- Top ten genre-defying novels
- Literary news
- A question
- Maniacal blog entry #2
- Maniacal blog entry #1
- I can't wait
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
- Words and dollars
- Gun control
- The pros and cons of getting an advance for a book...
- Robots, laser guns, girls in tinfoil brassieres
- One book
- Mr. Happy
- Hardy and Ibsen
- Anti-pixel
- In a very exciting development
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Good for her. Complete crative control.
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I disagree. Smug, whiny, and unprofessional. It's put me off her books.
ReplyDeleteI am not going to say anything one way or the other, except to make two observations: (1) often I link to a piece without comment when my comment would be disapproving and (2) the two of shriver's novels that i've actually read are both spectacularly good, don't be put off. she makes a specialty of the offputting female main character, which is surprisingly rare in contemporary fiction!
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