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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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- Scratch and crow
- Modern Calvaries
- The Zinc Finger Consortium
- SPPNTCJ
- Manhattan paleolimnography
- "Always Hot Always Ready"
- X.
- "The small drama of opening and eating sweets"
- The ash-heap of history
- Obsessive Ciceronians
- Toy story
- Flowy!
- "I am a teenage elf"
- Wasn't Plannin' on Leavin'
- No bearing on reality
- The rightness is all
- Error correction
- Penguin love
- "Aesthetic promptings and hesitations"
- "Motiveless civility"
- The Aphrodite affair
- PLACE NAMES
- The Viennese literary coffeehouse
- The Order of the Elephant
- Vile jelly
- Unhinged
- Stony places
- Waterloo
- The discovery of Uqbar
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I wonder when X became the universal signature of those who could not sign their name.
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ReplyDeleteEx naught x (e.g. xylophone).