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"Too much traffic"
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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Books
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Blog Archive
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2011
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April
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- Remembering Joanna Russ
- The poison-dart frog, the three-toed sloth
- Infectious
- A long career
- Evening update
- iPhone forensics
- Kaninhop
- Life on the pornographic fur carpet
- Identikitlit
- Topical buns
- Put out to pasture
- Postscript
- "The two trumpets will be blown"
- Etymological
- Swarm city
- Crusoe's island
- The Chinese 4-suited money pack
- The Florestine Collection
- "Books are like people"
- Macbethage
- Culture industries
- Bookishness
- Snake tales
- Ladies' Day
- Friday night lights
- Stackables
- "Up to Lexington, 125"
- Floriation
- Bombardiers
- Cake!
- On loss
- Surplus footmen
- Youth and sex and butter
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One comes upon Michael Dummett in the strangest places... I know his phil. of math work quite well, but have also seen stuff he's written about immigration and (very poorly) about language. (These interests are apparently linked, he believes in spelling reform to make English easier for adults to learn.) I like this list of open problems, it is aggressively donnish in its phrasing.
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