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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Damsels and steeds

In the New York Times Magazine, Virginia Heffernan remembers what it meant to "grow up online" as the result of anomalous demographic conditions affecting New Hampshire teenagers in the 1980s.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 2:42 PM
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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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