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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Closing tabs

Susan Shapiro on the perils of collaboration.

Colson Whitehead's zombies!

Lauren Myracle has handled what must be one of an author's worst nightmares with unusual grace and good temper.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 8:41 AM
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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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A few pieces

  • A snippet of the style book
  • The missing notes for chapter six
  • A Magic Circle playlist
  • 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

  • Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
  • 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
  • The Magic Circle
  • Invisible Things
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity

My other blogs

  • Triaspirational
  • The Explosionist

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