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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Syringed

Exposure to the open air has left A.L. Kennedy's ear feeling shy and wayward.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 2:13 PM
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Labels: A. L. Kennedy, ears versus eyes, error correction, medical woes, travel writing

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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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A few pieces

  • A snippet of the style book
  • The missing notes for chapter six
  • A Magic Circle playlist
  • My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012)
  • "Guided by the Lit" (Bookforum, summer 2011)
  • "Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
  • "The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)

Books

  • Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
  • Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (read the introduction here)
  • Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
  • The Magic Circle
  • Invisible Things
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity

My other blogs

  • Triaspirational
  • The Explosionist

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