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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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- The life of Riley
- An impossibly gargantuan, time-consuming labour of...
- A comical new twist
- In memoriam
- On remembering
- Two delightfully contradictory accounts
- Herds of feral ponies
- The gentle globules
- Turkish delights
- Fish with wrists
- Tristram Shandy helped him get over it
- For those who arrive here
- Spinal narratives
- Backlog
- After anaesthetics and before television
- A gelatinous variety of white offal
- Destroyer of worlds
- Eliyahu or Gershom
- The best thing this week
- What they called a 'quote'
- Between Ealing comedy and film noir
- The middle strainer post
- Alternate universes
- The dead body contract
- An estate is not for me
- Triboluminescence
- Why did I not
- The most exciting news round here
- Co-op
- A world without numbers
- The dynamite romance
- Sunken scholarship
- The mystery of things
- A thoriated lens
- The moving toyshop of the heart
- Air miles
- A poor, bare, forked animal
- A dark aberration of Sievers' Carmelite
- Jokeless prose
- Summer treats
- Finding aids
- The sports section
- The blush
- The Natural History of Teeth
- The inky and unpredictable Humboldt squid
- Wind instruments made from herring heads
- On ice
- The Bondo mystery ape
- Nice legs
- A room the color of blood
- Words for Anton Segal
- Words for Helen Hill
- His weapons and his stuff, or "I don't know from r...
- On the appeal of three things
- Utopian thinking
- Terrors of the terrace
- The body is a trench coat
- A foot a day
- Lie back and think of the publicity
- Perfection
- A long confessional post about mental turmoil and ...
- 10 Scottish books that will change your life
- The simpering innocence of cocoa
- An ossifiant theory of progress
- Lousy with golden ratios
- Guinea pigs never get the credit
- Icelandic declensions
- Alternate histories
- Culture is neutral
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June
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Me too. And I'd like to hop off at one of the little fishing villages and then live in a brightly-painted house perched along the water.
ReplyDeleteTotally. Btw, this is like my favorite blog. It's so ... tasteful? I dunno, but thanks for enlightening me. Like all the time. Sometimes I feel dumb when I read this.
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