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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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I've been dipping into this book off and on for about six months now. It's as much fun as the Guardian says, but it's also as heavy as they say. That's what's kept me from reading it straight through: I can't bring myself to lug it on the L every day.
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