Lechers, Psychos & Frauds: Professors Portrayed In Novels Of The Last Fifty Years
by Laurie Henry Michael Chabon, “Wonder Boys”, 1995; Jane Smiley, “Moo”, 1995; Don DeLillo, “White Noise”, 1985; Gail Godwin, “The Odd Woman”, 1974; Alison Lurie, “The War Between the Tates”, 1974; John Barth, “The End of the Road”, 1967; Randall Jarrell, “Pictures From an Institution”, 1952; Mary McCarthy, “The Groves of Academe”, 1951 AFTER CREATIVE-WRITING professor Grady Tripp encourages a student to nose around in his department head’s locked bedroom cabinet; after the student shoots and kills the department head’s dog; after a drunken visitor reveals Grady’s affair with the department head’s wife, Grady either leaves or is fired from his job. He marries his pregnant […]
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