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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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- "Gosh, I could do with a bathe"
- "I, Pencil"
- Rogue woolly monkeys
- "Les Deplorables, Hugh Millais's Greatest Hits"
- "The Fat Cat pub"
- "I'll eat you up"
- The Method
- UncLE ARly
- Significant objects
- Hauntings
- "On to Z!"
- Vertical seams
- The alternate Dewey Decimal System
- "D. Barber, H.M. Swan Marker"
- Peanuts
- Whitewashed
- Atlases of Dermatology
- Encylopedic
- "Squalid extravagance"
- On a brighter note
- On literary disappointment
- Surf and turf
- Nine camels
- "Born in ice cave of centaur stock"
- Bottom's dream
- Temples of lust
- The silver darlings
- "A glorious welter of black fins and flukes"
- Invisible libraries
- Collisions
- Aquatic dialogues
- Sublimity
- Hot dog!
- Transmission
- Pale Galileans
- Pennies in the slot
- Talismans, totems
- Record-seeking
- Travel miscellany
- "My button period"
- Scattered revelations
- Vegetable love
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I remember that when Banana Yoshimoto's novels started showing up here in the States, the American publisher brought them out in a string of paperbacks featuring a pretty young Japanese model on the covers. I had a friend who asked me if I'd read any of her stuff and then confided to me that he'd been scarfing them up and had a heavy crush on her--not because of her writing, but because of the combination of her writing and how "she" looked on the covers. When I broke it to him that it wasn't actually the author in those photos, he lost all interest in her and her books.
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