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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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- The swans of North America
- "Tempting little rectangles"
- "I like the cut of your J.I.B."
- Miscellanous linkage
- The fantastical capybara
- Cookstrips
- The fabric of the world
- "Eeegaads!"
- Impasto
- "Pouring linseed oil on the school cormorant"
- "Novelistic gloss"
- "Inauthentic as well as disgusting"
- "Perversity incarnate"
- Proxy battles
- Light reading catch-up
- Stonehenge!
- The secret order of things
- "The attention that makes a piece of writing somet...
- Alternate topographies
- "Getting off at Mill Hill"
- "Lovelily dreadful"
- "They were reduced to despair"
- Breaking news
- "My life sits next to me like a jar of paint"
- "O to tie parcels once more!"
- Publisher-agnostic
- Alternate selves
- "Escape is entertainment"
- Literary sex
- "When we first became interested in chicken..."
- “He gets that monk stuff from the History Channel”
- Glimmering images
- "Nectarine Fruits"
- "There are three key steps to disappearing"
- Light Reading round-up
- Soundings
- "The Enthusiastically Sticky zone of the Self-Love...
- Vintage
- "I've never been without an OED since"
- Chicken and champagne
- Natural histories
- The Widener deeps
- "Their heads were full of Durkheim"
- "It's utterly fab"
- Streets of crocodiles
- "Licensed to chill"
- Able Baker
- Luke Skywalker's robotic hand
- Hauntings
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I'm confused; I thought druids and bards were antithetical, with druids being institutional and bards being anti-institutional, somehting akin to brahmins and yogis in India.
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