Jason Pettus's review of The Paper Chase

4/5: 2023 reads, #61. The world recently saw the passing of John Jay Osborn, Jr. (who, yes, was a descendent of founding father John Jay), an author who the world has largely forgotten by now; but Osborn will always hold a special place in my personal history, in that his debut novel, 1971's The Paper Chase, was the very first non-science-fiction adult book I ever read in my life, back when I was 15 and I spied it randomly on the shelves of my local library one day, and thought it was cool that someone had done a novelization of the late-'70s TV series I had caught a couple of episodes of when I...