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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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During your undergrad years, did you experience a falling away of passion in the pursuit of good grades (.i.e.: not writing a paper how you wanted to write it, but simply surrendering to what you felt would get you the highest grade)?
ReplyDeleteFunny question! But actually--though I can't say I recommend this--no, I was unbelievably negligent of good grades, I only did the work I found interesting, did that work quite passionately and obsessively but completely ignored the boring stuff/bad classes and indeed have a much patchier transcript than you might expect.
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