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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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January
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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
- Reborn
- "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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Great intro! Authors often say that nobody reads the introduction, but in my experience a lot of people do. One way I can tell is that reviews sometimes pick up on items mentioned in the intro, another way is that people pick up on personal info in the acknowledgments.
ReplyDeleteI'm also reminded that the first time you told me about your book-in-progress, I thought you said the title was "Braiding" (from your mid-Atlantic accent), which oddly enough wouldn't be a horrible title either.
It's funny how often such malapropisms are possible; for example, I had a friend who once said she just wanted to bleed into the woodwork. Another time she said she wanted to get on the right tract. In the case of your book the malapropism came from the listener not the speaker, but I think the principles are the same.