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About Me
- 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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- This one sounds good
- "You see, I am bad, aren't I?"
- Eighteenth-century tidbits #3
- Fame
- A vast and wondrous estate
- Nanny confessionals
- Eighteenth-century tidbits #2
- Brenda Maddox on matters Joycean
- This is a good list
- The Rael thing
- The light reading fit came on very strongly
- Martha Nussbaum's furious and devastating New Repu...
- The Scottish play
- Ian Jack on rejecting Martha Gellhorn's last publi...
- It's never the animal's fault
- Glasgow/art
- The fiction issue of the NYRB
- Michael Feingold profiles actor Alvin Epstein
- John Lanchester is blogging the World Cup
- A lifelong dream
- Inking in the mothholes
- Paperbacks
- Lassie was a girl and Rin Tin Tin was a boy
- Someone came up with a very clever title
- Radical drag
- Eighteenth-century tidbits #1
- A good post about the New York Review of Books
- One of the outrageous luxuries
- And in the NYTBR letters section
- A rather wonderful review
- At the Guardian Review
- I think I have a favorite book of 2006
- At the London Review of Books
- I nurse a not-very-secret passion
- Two particularly good things
- My colleague Jim Shapiro
- Tune in, turn on, drop out
- Human freedom and genetic determinism
- Trains and blue denim
- Demented beach reads
- Membership libraries
- Nineteenth-century ninjas
- I want to read
- A photographer's memoir
- William Empson's letters
- Lego mash-ups
- The spirit of competition
- Tonsilized
- Tinned pineapple and glace cherries
- The human voice
- On Trying to Keep Still
- Robert Birnbaum interviews Lawrence Weschler
- A one-legged person trapped in a two-legged body
- Sledging
- The early 1970s vibe
- Can I just say
- Thoroughly debauched, almost medieval
- Lisa Allardice interviews Sarah Waters
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June
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You know, sometimes Modern Love can really good and emotionally affecting (rarely), sometimes they're not great (often), and sometimes they're incredibly hilarious (intentionally or unintentionally). The headline of this one definitely has already landed it in the latter category.
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I was thinking about blogging about it, but I don't even know where to begin, especially because one would have to acknowledge the attempt at humor alongside the horror, and really better just to leave it alone.
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