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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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- Fighting dragons
- 25 random things about me
- Extra, extra
- Caballing
- A storey and a half a week
- Putting it to the bishop
- The children and the fruit tree
- Lords of the flies
- Promiscuous questions
- Linkage
- Throat-clearing
- The ginger club
- Favorite books
- Swift update
- Digital musings
- Snarge
- Bat signals
- The Urning men
- Twinned
- Stinkhorns, false blushers, sickeners, devil's bol...
- Tiny living
- Narnian sewing-machines
- "Get out your Richards!"
- "Caviar, sturgeon, anchovies, pickled oysters"
- "It was all those sailors"
- Dating how-to
- Hasty light reading miscellany
- COWs and COLTs
- Terrapin staples
- Save the date
- Streak!
- Speck
- "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"
- A labour of love
- Great expectations
- Moby Ovary
- "Precursors of flaking"
- "Some patron saint of girls' schools"
- "There were no sunglasses"
- Bleeding into the woodwork
- Categories
- Shimmering putty
- Precious eggs
- I Want To Cheer Up Ltd
- Culture's table
- Consistency
- "FOUR FIELD MICE lost from laboratory"
- The light reading miscellany
- No second lunch
- Mongol 482
- Promotional
- 38p a packet
- The little orchestra
- Miniaturized
- "Inward"
- Tingle cream
- The eye and the ear
- Rumbledethumps
- ZEEP
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- "A pair of human feet with boots on them"
- "A cupboard full of Vaseline"
- Sweat, n.
- "The essence of our Lancelot"
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I think Colleen makes an excellent point about genre expectations, and furthermore, that Walton is way off base in supporting such prescriptive norms about fantasy. You know that I enjoyed The Explosionist, my main criticism tending rather in the direction of characterisation.
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