Comments on: Spring Break All Summer

By: erin

erin — Thu, 25 May 2017 05:22:08 +0000

Oh, I love Lucky Jim and Stoner so much (though it is heartbreaking). I will definitely check out that David Lodge book, it sounds great.

I need to re-read White Noise I think. I remember not liking it a lot, but it’s been almost 20 years (!) since I read it.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:38:01 +0000

P.S. I’m so glad you ate lunch!

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:37:39 +0000

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher is very firmly in that niche. I think you would love it.

Also, my most recent adjunct gig was in a very tall tower building. There was a single bank of elevators serving the library plus like 20 floors of offices and classrooms. A pipe broke and flooded three of the four elevators, which also turned out to unleash some sort of asbestos issue, so the choice was to stand in line for 45 minutes to get to my 15th floor office, or ride the cancer-vator. Ivory tower to the max!

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Tue, 23 May 2017 10:15:41 +0000

Oh shit! In my mind it’s totally high school; I am shocked

By: Drea

Drea — Tue, 23 May 2017 01:25:31 +0000

The Secret History is not set at a “fancy boarding school!!” It’s set at a small liberal arts college that is a transparent stand-in for Bennington!!

There’s also “Moo” by Jane Smiley.

By: dv

dv — Sun, 21 May 2017 00:22:45 +0000

I love that Don DeLillo book, but it’s kind of heavily “written by a dude,” which I think would be off-putting to many people.