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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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- Light reading
- Surrogacy
- Lagartijas
- A dormant plastic descant recorder
- My inner fish
- Plus robot fights
- Rats!
- Hair-related frivolity
- Stegophiles and graffers
- EWTSNBN
- Spraggle upon waggle
- Paint color namer, baseball statistician, forensic...
- Inane jacket copy
- Enviably cerulean males
- Glazing over at the sight of a bonnet
- What literary theorists call an "empty signifier"
- Bar briefs
- Rabbits, cats and gardens
- Two books about swimming
- Not an urn guy
- The naked Sarpedon
- Mowgli children
- His rising sign was Gemini
- M-O-N-T-A-G
- Macaquiavellianism
- 43
- A dissertation on the crawl
- "Not in New York!"
- "I need the cat, and the cat needs a home"
- Graduate-student types?
- The dreaded occasion of reading over the work
- La plus belle plume
- "Probably he's got a lot of firewood"
- A gingerbread slum
- Ahoy, ahoy
- A life of restless travelling in a Bedford Dormobile
- Sitting on eggs
- 28 points on a double word square
- A little ox
- Du lait et du sucre
- A cerebral encounter group
- "Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor"
- The search for a mate
- "True eloquence has no use for eloquence"
- This is a sad tale
- "That is a Rolls Royce"
- The Elizabeth Hardwick sentence
- The intelligence of military leaders
- Preventing error
- The hunger for books
- Cockleshell anti-heroes
- Pixillated
- Blog frequency
- The lonely guerilla war against prudery
- Parkives #XIV (marathon-themed)
- Davy Jones's locker
- Uncle Billy in a red, white and blue jumpsuit
- Bonks Hill and Slutshole Lane
- Single white female
- Kenspeckle
- The reluctant theologian
- Tungsten!
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I'm always surprised at how easily Austen's savagery is glossed over. I sometimes wonder what modern writer could get away with it.
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