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"Too much traffic"
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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2008
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October
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- Surrogates
- Electioneering
- Bills of mortality
- Prime ministers in bathing suits
- Thousand-year jujubes
- Cryogenic ice cream
- Setting the record straight
- Fallen socialites
- .44 Magnum
- Table talk for 27 October 2008
- "All by floppers"
- "I too am Vermeer!"
- Bovril for Invalids
- "Chippy made me do it"
- Sense and sensibility
- "Total pirate theme"
- Table talk for 24 October 2008
- Table talk for 23 October 2008
- BCC
- Hematophagy
- "The number 666 is Aleister Crowley"
- The ends of Enlightenment
- Roman souls
- Parkism
- Slaves to the ink bottle
- Coronation chicken
- Cattishness
- 20 kilograms
- Meat redux
- The history of meat
- Gastronomical
- Thoughts on a Pebble
- The Coriolanus complex
- Trajectories
- "Thou art translated!"
- Triathlon lit
- Negative ions
- Authorship, insomnia?
- "Marrow fat pea"
- Monkey business
- The last task
- Demons
- The allure of eggs and nests
- John Wesley's boots under glass
- Saying the thing which is not
- Spectral
- Red plastic igloo
- Unusual farm animals
- Curiosities
- Postcard gamelan
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October
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Count me equally annoyed. Such a cheap trick: one just can hear the pitch, the MA thesis adviser so happy at a defined project, etc. Blech. The fact of 365 does not a book structure make.
ReplyDeleteAll right. Back to grading freshman essays.
Hi Jenny!
Ugh, me too! Such a tired concept. (I'm surprised there's not a subtitle: "How lying changed everything in the world.)
ReplyDelete-- CAAF
One more 365-pitch:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/?last_story=/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2008/10/09/daily_asker/
-- CAAF