Most of the charm of this short, funny book about academia is in the snarkiness and sheer inappropriateness of the letters of reference written by Professor Jason Fitger. These letters of reference form the entire contents of the novel, and it's something of a triumph of ingenuity over form that the...
I'm stuck in this weird position where I can't move for the last 12 hours. I can basically use the computer and reach the giant stack of books my friend dragged into the room when she set me up (and thankfully fed the cat - who has knocked over the books...) Anyway, I finished Owen Meany which is a ...
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishl...
As the title might suggest, this is an epistolary novel, told in the form of letters from a harried professor of English and creative writing at a mid-level liberal arts college in the U.S. mid-west. Many are letters of recommendation for current or former students, whom he remembers to varying de...
I’ve worked in academia long enough to know how fraught it can be. In addition to teaching, research, writing, and all the things we do as part of our regular jobs, we also have to justify our existence. Speaking for libraries, we have to prove and reprove that we are having a measurable positive im...
This delightful little book will have you chuckling under your breath on almost every page and even laughing out loud sometimes. It is about a sarcastic, curmudgeon who goes about his life finding intriguing ways to complain! In his fifties, one might think he is having a mid-life crisis, but Jason ...
This is a short, enjoyable epistolary novel, composed entirely of letters of recommendation written by a curmudgeonly English professor. You might wonder how anyone could make a story out of that, but Schumacher manages, by dint of the professor’s complete lack of a filter about what belongs in prof...
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