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Friday, May 21, 2010
"Every execution is a carnival"
A very lovely and striking piece at the NYRB by Jose Manuel Prieto on translating Osip Mandelstam's "Epigram Against Stalin" from Russian to Spanish
(subscriber only).
Not related, but
one of my other favorite things in the NYRB recently
was Theo Cote's amazing photograph of Lydia Davis and her extraordinary black cat!
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Jenny Davidson
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012)
"Guided by the Lit" (Bookforum, summer 2011)
"Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
"The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)
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Invisible Things
The Explosionist
Heredity
Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
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