Alley StoughtonJan 5, 2025

My favorite author has now died. I recommend all his novels, which are mostly comedies that treat their characters well.

If you want to start, read his Campus Trilogy:

Changing Places
Small World
Nice Work

#RIPDavidLodge #DavidLodge

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/books/david-lodge-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m04.b0FV.eFRsMY9LsjkP&smid=url-share

David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89

His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.

The New York Times
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 4, 2025

#RIPDavidLodge

David Lodge has passed & it seems fitting to recall that his novel Nice Work was so prescient about the relationships between university & business that when I re-read it not so many years ago, it was difficult to completely believe it had not been written relatively recently.

A great commentator on the strange world of university life passes on to the great university in the sky.

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