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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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2006
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June
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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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Phew! That's some demolition job. It's rare to read such a forensic deconstruction of a book. Nussbaum doesn't just attack the book - she shreds it utterly.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff.
Awesome! Thanks for the link; I'm glad I didn't miss that.
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