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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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- Cats kitned without tails, poultry without rumps
- Your classic 50s drive-in-movie-monster plant
- Rapt in each other's company
- Idiotic things
- The realm of instant recovery
- On heredity
- Pitmatical
- Bakewell's sheepish doctrine
- An unusual species
- Such, such were the joys
- Love and swimming
- The beauty that is the problem
- The old gods in a climate of modern rationalism
- Six bikes
- The sense of smell
- A small taste
- Earwigs make good mothers
- Macready pauses
- The problem of Susan
- A dog with a dollar bill in its mouth
- The heart is in the mechanism
- Rather in love
- Il est deux heures
- Tickle the nape of a rat pup's neck
- The cerebral and emotional pleasures of the eighte...
- Quantum foam
- A funny interlude this morning
- On a brighter note
- In which I am thwarted
- Triathlon on the brain
- 36
- A happy cat, a joyologist
- A long bike ride
- A martial art based on catlike movements
- The ram in the thicket, the stayed hand
- Ways of seeing
- Dangerous trades
- An echo of Mr. James?
- Six minutes
- Pips
- The six soup vegetables
- History is taking a rest
- Sincere, misguided
- The sin of enhancement and the claims of giftedness
- General fatigue on the furnishings
- ("he was a Martian!")
- Fantails, pouters, runts, toys, carriers, tumblers
- On getting lost
- Six red telephone boxes
- A tear rolled down his cheek
- Harry Potter, Inspector Rebus and Grand Theft Auto
- Yesterday
- All to pieces
- An electrical miracle
- The rain in Spain
- Love across power differentials
- Gallant and highly sexed
- It is a whopper
- The eye of the needle
- A glazed frenzy
- 60 windows for Jenny
- A dish of herbs where love is
- The member-of-congress stamp of ability
- Polydactyl Hemingway cats
- My first spell of cyclo-literary hermitry
- Peeling the onion
- A leg over the crossbar
- On shibboleths
- Old-fashioned bombs on wheels
- Obviously I had opened this bottle first
- Et in arcadia ego
- Two loaded pistols and a Great Dane
- As docile as lambs
- Airscapes
- Dipping in
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Interesting -- sounds like what I'm reading right now, The Final Act: The Roads to Waterloo by Gregor Dallas, which also combines attention to diplomatic historical detail with some excellent descriptions of parties and the city cultures of London, Paris, & Vienna.
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