Merel van GochNov 8, 2022

I run a campus novel book club together with a colleague. We meet irregularly with a small group of colleagues and reflect on a book and its relation to our scholarship.

In December we'll discuss Mary McCarthy's 'The groves of academe' which is one of the earliest campus novels and one of my faves.

What's your favorite campus novel?

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Show threadAmy Summerville
@merelvg Richard Russo's Straight Man contains one of my favorite quotes ever: "Clearly, the only solution was for all of us to take one step backward so that the door could be pulled open. By this point a group of plumbers, a group of bricklayers, a group of hookers, a group of chimpanzees would have figured this out. But the room contained, unfortunately, a group of academics, and we couldn’t quite believe what had happened to us."
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Nov 8, 2022 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadAmy SummervilleNov 8, 2022
@merelvg I also enjoyed "Dear Committee Members" as an epistolary campus novel.
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Show threadMerel van GochNov 9, 2022
@regretlab I started reading this today and I'm greatly enjoying it. Thanks for the tip! Will definitely keep it in mind as a suggestion for a future #campusNovel #bookClub read.