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Her first novel, the body is water, was published by soho press in 1995 and was an ala notable book of the year and a finalist for the penhemingway award. This laughoutloud epistolary novel showcases the sarcastic and cynical wit of a disgruntled creative writing professor dealing with the failure of his writing career and his personal relationships. Dear committee members dear committee members, book by schumacher, julie. Told solely through the letters of recommendation written by a creative writing professor at a small liberal arts university, anyone who has spent any time in a university will recognize the frustrations of the institution. Julie schumachers dear committee members, and more. Dear members of the readers committee, allow me just a few lines here to commend to your attention a new book titled dear committee members. Julie schumachers dear committee members is the best sort of novel. Its an hilarious book about the sorry state of the humanities in general and a certain acerbic english professor in particular whose epistolary jousting is guaranteed to tickle you. In julie schumachers dear committee members, jason fitger has had enough. The committees email for me began of as dear firstname lastname. Npr and boston globe finally a novel that puts the pissed back into epistolary. Jason fitger, is one of the few tenured members of the english department in a small, midwestern college.
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A frustrated professor sounds off to committee members. This book will most likely be hilarious if you are familiar with the onuses and whims of bureaucratic academia, as the narrator, mr. Once a helpdesk ticket number is in your possession, students should email me to advise me of the problem and provide me with the helpdesk ticket number. An unabridged audio edition of this classic work on the 25th anniversary of its first publication a modern classic, houseke. Its a novel written in letters of recommendation, and we all know how tortured the. Theres a tradition of using what i call writerly tasks to make narrative art, dating back to the earliest novels, many of which, like samuel richardsons clarissa and. A disgruntled english professor pours out his hopes, affections and frustrations in an interconnected series of recommendation letters. The protagonist of julie schumacher s new dear committee members is frustrated with the future of american arts and letters and the feckless students who pester him for recommendation letters. Aug 18, 2014 dear committee members is a brilliant book that, in my head, sits comfortably on my prized shelf of academic novels, right between lucky jim and pictures from an institution. Dear committee members is a riskless novel as a whole yes, choosing the epistolary form does not count as risky.
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