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- 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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- A very long post about running, the soul and the l...
- A strange piece of advocacy
- "Editors hate me"*
- Humane and psychological
- Puffin and whale and cormorant
- Solid pork
- J. M. Coetzee on Norman Mailer's Hitler
- A news update
- The pleasures of collaboration
- On August Wilson
- Journalism as mission
- Barmecide feasts
- I try and resist the urge
- A five-pound presentation haggis
- It's not available online
- On rereading
- The claims of the person
- Memory played me false!
- An ice-cream war
- Really I have no bohemian tendencies
- The alive form of physical intelligence
- A bending-forward position like a monkey
- Puppetry
- Old books
- The postwar establishment
- Demolition file
- An appealing phrase
- What I'm looking forward to
- On pug dogs and Harlequin Danes
- Two-legged telephones
- Truth in advertising
- F****** middlebrow
- The life of a professional novelist
- Reading/disordered
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- Meat in dough
- On reading
- Cintra Wilson
- Squalid Danish
- On climate
- Pewter versus platinum
- Timor mortis
- If you have ever
- Yesterday
- The anthropology of human skin
- New Orleans and related matters
- Swan terrine
- A demented corgi
- Something to do
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- This is why
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- The best thing I have read
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- A disturbing trend
- Voice recognition
- On false notes
- A memorial website
- The bleakest most existential noir
- The dilemma of the two fathers
- More pants
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ReplyDeleteDear Jenny,
ReplyDeleteWould you happen to know of any good books on the history of torture? I'd like a recommendation if you do.
Physicians for Human Rights is an excellent NGO with a long history of documenting torture. they have a library online. you will likely find a wealth of info and references in their reports.
ReplyDeletewww.physiciansforhumanrights.org
Well.. see... I honestly don't care about the human rights aspects of torture. There are tons of books on that. I just want to know, starting from the dawn of mankind, how people tortured each other - with what instruments, etc. I don't mean to be callous but I don't want to read a moralizing account. It kinda spoils the gruesome fun of it.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks. I appreciate the pointer.
Dr. Jablonski is totally amazing and awesome! She came to give the keynote address at our graduate student research symposium last year and participated in a panel discussion on race in academia. She's done EVERYTHING: dug up fossil baboons in Kenya, worked on ancient Chinese fauna, studied the biomechancis of bipedalism, plus her really neat stuff with skin color. I think she had the best job in the world, too, currator at the California Academy of Sciences. A post which is now open (a few years too early for me, darn it!) because she's going to chair the anthro department at Penn State (probably because Alan Walker is retiring—have you read any of his books? Also totally amazing!).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, all of that to say that yes, she's super cool and a very very nice person! I can see that you two would get along very well! The physical anthropology meetings are in Philadelphia at the end of March, want to come meet people and hear lots of talks about monkeys? :)