Monica Edinger responds to several recent pieces on children's reading.
Also, via The Rumpus, Clive Thompson weighs in at Wired on the "new literacy".
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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 natural history of running
- Life in literature
- Manga eyes
- The pirate brand
- Oed to a Nietingael
- "Wooden hot dogs with plastic buns"
- The wiki reputation system
- Culture wars redux
- Reading/writing
- Pies of the imagination
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- Bonsai relationships
- "I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!"
- Three genes
- Fortunate falls
- States of emergency
- "Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare"
- Civilization and its discontents
- Things long ago
- Vacant residences or animal remains
- "The small, sharp teeth of a kitten"
- College fight songs, Vol. 2
- Baking powder controversy
- "It's a Raymond Chandler evening"
- Kimbo
- School days
- Two by two
- Ginger beer and picnics
- "I'm a detective, a treasure hunter"
- Stopping warlocks
- "Bigamy Novels, Bildungsroman, the Sensation Novel"
- "Overmuch Study"?
- The piper's maggot
- "I hear that a lot of small dogs are gay"
- Jawboning, mental orifices
- "187 Men to Avoid"
- CV
- Feline wilfullness
- Pawprints
- Bling in dessert form
- "Bottles Boxes Baskets bags nets &c &c &c"
- The light fantastic
- Closing tabs
- Light reading catch-up
- "Like Sophia Loren, and equally difficult to catch"
- Unwholesome situations
- Blood-sucking
- Changes rung upon dots
- "Nuclear is the answer"
- Almond Ladybits
- The road of excess
- Wing-whirring
- "She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks"
- Portrait of the cat by a young artist
- Baggage
- Trick memory
- "Love and bacon"
- When worlds collide
- "Wet documents, moldy paper, insect and vermin res...
- Profiling
- "She said I was skeletal and scary eyed"
- Love bugs
- Transfigurations
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