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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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- Light reading catch-up
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- Ace Luggage
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- An amazing haul
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- Sea-green incorruptible
- The sabbath
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- The ruddy turnstone
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- 1:12
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- Strangers in the night
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- The mouse helpline
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- Character analysis
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Why not? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteAnother friend wrote to ask me the same thing! Combination of two different factors: (1) I do not have the skill set (I know no detectives, I know no criminals, I am not really inclined to note the sort of details you need to write the sociological portrait of a community which is one of the things I like so much about this kind of book); (2) I love spare stripped-down crime writing, but much as I hate to admit it, I have a more baroque and elaborate sensibility myself, and have come to admit after many years of striving for simplicity in my writing that it is not really my thing. I admire and enjoy crime fiction more than historical fiction in many respects, in other words, but my talents better fit me to write the latter than the former...
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