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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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December
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- The fruit pie autopsy
- And there we must draw a veil...
- There is no doubt
- The Xmas annual then and now...
- A sad article
- Sweetness and light
- The fissility of self
- "Wolfsbane nailed up against the possibility of re...
- Monkeys are a secondary
- My favorite indie publisher
- Transgenic hybrid children!
- Final days and ubi sunt
- Underrated writers 2006
- Orhan Pamuk's father
- More on Decca
- The knot, the chine and the slot
- The rational inquirer
- The FA Cup winners for the last 50 years
- An England that has ceased to exist
- Software as amanuensis
- And an addendum
- The books I loved in 2006
- More Hannibaling
- I want my iReader
- The genetic contingency of natural disposition
- Hell's a sort of high-class nightclub
- The fall of Troy
- Seal meat and cocoa
- Betraying Spinoza
- I wish
- Not at all related
- It is unofficial Hannibal week
- Hannibal redux
- The horror, the horror
- Everyone is interested in pigeons
- Fruity vituperation
- It was slender
- "10 of these delicious treats a day"
- We do not have two lives
- Feed a pigeon, breed a rat
- "I want my ham!"
- One thing I did this year
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During your undergrad years, did you experience a falling away of passion in the pursuit of good grades (.i.e.: not writing a paper how you wanted to write it, but simply surrendering to what you felt would get you the highest grade)?
ReplyDeleteFunny question! But actually--though I can't say I recommend this--no, I was unbelievably negligent of good grades, I only did the work I found interesting, did that work quite passionately and obsessively but completely ignored the boring stuff/bad classes and indeed have a much patchier transcript than you might expect.
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