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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Miscellinkage

Philadelphia ghost sign project (via Blue Montakhab).

Frame backs at the Beinecke.

At the LRB, Steven Shapin on the decline of French haute cuisine.

At the TLS, Claire Harman on a new biography of H. G. Wells.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 2:41 PM
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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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A few pieces

  • 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)

Books

  • The Magic Circle
  • Invisible Things
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity
  • Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (read the introduction here)
  • Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

My other blogs

  • Triaspirational
  • The Explosionist

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