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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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- Disneyana
- A martyr to the weed
- Prosthetica
- Trug
- The come-from-behind ambush technique
- Evolutions of mandarinese
- The Flying Saucer Working Party
- Squeal sheets
- Amuse-gueule
- Faded?
- "I'm really rather lumbered with the library"
- Organ recitals
- 2,000 words a day
- A daily task
- "I don't think he let anybody in the shed"
- Gone but not forgotten
- The truth versus the facts
- Man-of-letterish qualities
- Discretion
- Logbook poetry
- "The body is female"
- The classics
- Gobbeting
- Eco-friendly, carbon-neutral
- "Ya wanna see the Rauschenberg?"
- A lyric speaker
- Havey-cavey
- Egg season
- Blips
- Squeak!
- Showers of blood
- Syllabub in a martini glass
- Clubs of Quidnuncs
- Gloop!
- Andamento
- An egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on
- 100 feet wide
- The aquatic ape?
- A mass of dreary, derailleur-obsessed tour guides
- Single vision
- SHC
- Bibliomania
- Viagravation, sacrilicious
- Back to the future
- Bicycle day
- A colossal eye
- Sibylline leaves
- Geomantic concerns
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Do not have time to read Phil Nugent, but must share that my Rauschenberg anecdote, retold today, of course, has the punch line, "Be careful of the Rauschenberg" (which was looming above us, in a projecting-out-of-the-wall kind of way, as we sat down on the couch in the Jerusalem home of the former Israeli ambassador to the US). The other punchline of the anecdote, which is really a great anecdote, is "A contour never crosses itself," which actually had nothing to do with the Rauschenberg.
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