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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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- Works on paper redux
- "Meat Service"
- Geoff Dyer's stroke
- Works on paper
- The class
- Survival mode
- The quiet life
- ASECS bound
- Flat white
- Paring down
- Great books
- "This is what God put me on earth to do, to bring ...
- The role cold plays
- Signal boost
- 0-1999
- "I must now insert myself into the story"
- A whole new breed of cat person
- The observation of our observing
- The real thing
- Dept. of desirable but wrong things
- YMCA
- Ideology paves the way
- Midweek brain fog
- Closing tabs
- Republics of letters
- Kinga-prusha mall
- Closing tabs
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They do it every President's Day weekend at the camp where the girls go - for the totally off-the-grid boys camp...store it in sawdust in the ice house and all.
ReplyDeleteUntil they ran power lines to the lake in the 70's, we purchased ice blocks that had been cut the previous winter and used them in our icebox at the cottage. My grandfather sold them to American tourists after the cottages were built in the 40's, and then my uncle, later. Sadly, I never got to see this harvest in progress.
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