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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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- Swings, roundabouts
- Squeeze machines
- Performative sentences
- A currency of cigarettes
- Bodies electric
- Scrambled and skimble-skambled
- Stained-glass language
- Jeddah
- Living on paper
- Tea and toast
- Headline news
- Filthy Austen
- Monosyllabic puberty
- Pluto platters
- New York living
- The death of an author
- Triffid-like co-tenants
- Facts, fragility of, passim
- Drops of water
- Musing
- Bread-and-butterishness
- Brother of the more famous Jack
- Museums of marzipan
- Closing tabs
- "Sous les pavés la plage"
- Shrimp!
- Chronicles of the IBM Selectric
- "Things are a problem for Mr. Sehgal"
- Amazon wars
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Museums and confectionery: Next time you are at the Met, make sure to look at the special ESDA exhibition space just before the Lehman Wing. Austrian Du Paquier porcelains are set up with real sugar paste ornaments to evoke an 18th Century formal table. (It's up till March 21.)
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