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About Me
- 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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I'm astounded, but will remark that "the most convincing style possible" struck me as a pun and sent me to the OED, where I found "style" defined as "an instrument ... used as a weapon of offence."
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