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Jenny Hendrix

Jenny Hendrix is an un-Google-able freelance writer living in Brooklyn.

Articles

Dancing in the Air
Perhaps an essential thing Kundera's late style reveals is that the senile sublime has lurked in his prose all along....
Jenny HendrixJul 5, 2015
“The View from There”: W. G. Sebald’s “A Place in the Country”
The most excellent Jenny Hendrix on the great W. G. Sebald....
Jenny HendrixFeb 5, 2014
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables: Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies
Norman Rush may have traded Botswana for upstate New York, but the phenomenon of male friendship is as worthy of anthropological study as any foreign tribe....
Jenny HendrixSep 9, 2013
Norman Rush's "Subtle Bodies": Two Reviews
As the author changes his focus from Botswana to New York City, we check in to see what has changed and what parts of Rush's voice remain constant....
Daniel Pearce, Jenny HendrixSep 9, 2013
This One is the Whole: Italo Calvino’s Letters
Triptych image: Francesco Clemente, "Ace of Cups," 2011 IN 1976, ITALO CALVINO, in his capacity as an editor at the Einaudi publishing house, flipped through the correspondence of his late friend and mentor Elio Vittorini, which was being prepared for a ...
Jenny HendrixJun 30, 2013
The Brightest in the World: Ali Smith's "Artful"
AT THE END of Matthew Goulish’s The Brightest Thing in the World: 3 Essays from the Institute of Failure, the author quotes the second-to-last entry in the journal of the 30-year-old naturalist W.N.P Barbellion, written as he ...
Jenny HendrixJan 23, 2013
Erratic Mothering: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”
"'You can't live and write at the same time,' Bechdel puts it early on. She can't, maybe, but she has made something that can."...
Jenny HendrixMay 18, 2012
Lost and Saved
because of its ornateness, Ausubel’s prose seems to float around the idea of trauma...
Jenny HendrixFeb 27, 2012
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The Afterlife of Tintin
Tintin est Mort!...
Jenny HendrixDec 27, 2011
In Limbo
"We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it."...
Jenny HendrixSep 20, 2011