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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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- A relishing soop preparatory to a fresh debauch
- An outlandish animal
- That white look
- A paper-based cult
- Jews with swords
- Deid-bell, deid-drap, deid-nip, deid-rap, deid-spail
- Pickling
- The Manhattan Project
- This cant about cultural authenticity
- The rest is noise
- Marine sex
- The price of a cartridge
- Lovely things
- Small change
- Alternate histories
- Skimming, skipping
- Olga Nethersole
- Recycling
- Two ravishing things
- Rackety Empson
- On historical fantasists
- The filing cabinets of the Library of Congress
- Beards
- Mandeville and Adam Smith
- A dramatic reading of the periodic table of the el...
- The Onassis of the airport novel
- Napoleon's bayonets
- Feasts of literature
- Fred, Oswald, George, Marmaduke, Lionel
- The golden age of the monkey-man costume designer'...
- Six bottles of claret a night
- Babylon candles
- Exit, pursued by a bear
- No posts till Tuesday
- Throw Your Voice Like a Professional!
- The end of the affair
- His love of meat
- Je ne regrette rien
- Doing lengths in the moat
- The heirs of Bohr
- Fantasy island
- De oorlog der werelden
- Four legs only?
- The deanery
- Fast-forwarding through the sludge
- Sauce tortue
- Pickling artistic tradition in human flesh
- The Great Swallower
- It's queer to say plectra
- An accidental romance
- A love letter to one of the libraries of my childhood
- Mourning becomes her
- Meerkat manor
- Floppy ears and tameness
- On perfectibility
- Gripping his head by a handful of hair
- A laborious and fatiguing operation
- Baboon metaphysics
- Village explainers
- Sparkles
- Frivolity
- The passing of the hyphen
- A tale of obsession
- Sylvia's Magnetism
- Journalistic cliche
- File prowls, blown tails
- 1:59:07
- Tufty Fluffytail, the Safety Squirrel
- The Crow Cam
- The aspirational sub-2:00 club
- X marks the spot
- Fauns and dryads
- Rhinomania
- Pretty ghastly
- Eighteenth-century diversions
- Standardized uterine replicators
- Digital forensics
- Natural history
- Brains in jars
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thanks for posting this! i've always been fascinated by the swimming-as-diplomacy bit in the autobiography, and this is even better!
ReplyDeleteoh my god, i can't believe he said the d-word. hyuk, hyuk..
ReplyDeletenina
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI will, however, refrain from treating leg cramps with any kind of a shock! ;-)