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Friday, January 20, 2012

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Will Self's review of the Tierney-Baumeister willpower book made me laugh.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 10:05 PM
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Labels: reviewing, stating the obvious, Will Self, willpower

1 comments:

Becca said...

Esp. Kate Moss's bellybuttonful of cocaine and the fat Nazis at Auschwitz!

1/21/2012 8:46 AM

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About Me

Jenny Davidson
I have published three novels and two academic books; the two books I've just finished writing are "Notes on Style" and "The Magic Circle" (formerly known as "The Bacchae on Morningside Heights"). Next up: "The ABCs of the Novel." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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A few pieces

  • "Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
  • "The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)

Books

  • 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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      • Table to table
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      • Note to self
      • Dogs, cones
      • And yet more tabs
      • More tabs
      • Closing tabs
      • "I could have sat on him"
      • Triffids!
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      • Piezoelectric headbanging
      • "Eyes too like the lobster's"
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      • Pap
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