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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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January
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- Dames de voyage
- Familial frivolities
- Favorite devices
- Fatness, idleness and a limited book budget
- The ghost of pelvis past
- Substance P
- Synergistic chemicals
- Epistolary delights
- Watermarketing
- "An elite 10% that engage in advice-giving convers...
- Teaser (self-promotional)
- Bundles of joy
- Uranium, the Dead Sea Scrolls, a kidney?
- This deathless manuscript lacked charm
- "Gold is just lead on holiday"
- Leopold-and-Loeb-ish
- Wittingly
- A brutal crime story
- "You are either a liar or are unbalanced and shoul...
- Desalination, falconry, camel reproduction?
- Repressed legs
- "This elegant thimble"
- "I would always have at least three cadavers"
- Shibboleths
- A naturally bra-less flying centaur
- Too small to be of use
- Packet death
- Paranormalists from Toronto
- Three cute prawns suntanning on the rice
- Added value
- A future mythology of melt and end
- Special Agent, Department of Metahuman Affairs
- My inner fish!
- Spending Christmas with some very old friends
- "They wear the same clothes"
- On beauty
- The color wheel
- "Does your Lordship never think of prose?"
- The history of sweets and snacks
- As a monkey walked in North Carolina...
- Tesla coils!
- Sins of omission, sins of commission
- Beet smoothies
- Dust
- Xerox
- The eloquence of the diplodocus specimen
- Godwin on phrenology
- The check is in the mail
- A rising ridge of the Cranium under the Eye-brows
- Aesopes Damosell
- Survival in the jungle!
- The definitive Potter reference book
- Atomic clocks
- Biography and the social sciences
- "In a civilized society a person cannot send a sev...
- Trashy novels
- "I have to see my e-mail as soon as possible"
- The First Annual Helen Hill Memorial Tea Party (Ne...
- "Evil husband Fred West"
- Low talk
- "The newt is among our forefathers"
- "One smells the thing unprinted"
- The borderline middle-brow designation
- An orgy of staining slides
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The funniest things about this article are the first lines of her novels, printed at the bottom! Too much.
ReplyDeleteI only wish I could do more Light Reading, Jenny. So many chestnuts, so little time!