August 20, 2018 – The New Republic
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August 20, 2018 – The New Republic
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Posted in Bez kategorii, campus novel, college novel, The New Republic
Tagged Changing Places, David Lodge, Dear Committee Members, Elif Batuman, John Williams, Julie Schumacher, Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, Malcolm Bradbury, Mary McCarthy, Nice Work, Pictures from an Institution, Pnin, Randall Jarrell, Small World, Stoner, The Groves of Academe, The History Man, The Possessed, The Shakespeare Requirement, Vladimir Nabokov
June 5, 2016 – chronicle.com
August 7, 2014 – Slate
Strongest Possible Endorsement by Rebecca Schuman
“For Dear Committee Members isn’t really an academic novel, or even an academic satire (since most of its depictions of Payne University barely count as hyperbole). It’s a sincere exploration of the depths and breadths of human selfishness, and the contemporary American academy is simply the backdrop, precisely because nowhere else could Fitger’s particular sort of self-obsession be given the autonomy to both metastasize and self-immolate. So in the end, it is exactly Fitger’s selfishness that destructs, rather than his life—and although his semi-redemption may not redeem the rank carcass of academic culture that continues to fester around him, it’s more than enough to recommend this mischievous novel.”
August 13, 2014 – NPR
In A Funny New Novel, A Weary Professor Writes To ‘Dear Committee Members’ by Maureen Corrigan
Posted in campus novel, college novel, Inside Higher Ed, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tagged Changing Places, David Lodge, Dear Committee Members, Disgrace, Don DeLillo, J.M. Coetzee, John Williams, Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates, Julie Schumacher, Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, Malcolm Bradbury, On Beauty, Pale Fire, Philip Roth, Pnin, Small World, Stoner, The Accursed, The Corrections, The History Man, The Human Stain, Vladimir Nabokov, White Noise, Zadie Smith
Of Sin and College: Robert Stone’s ‘Death of a Black-Haired Girl’ by Tom LeClair
December 1, 2013 – The Columbus Dispatch Sunday
Death of the Black-Haired Girl: Big mystery on campus makes a taut thriller by Margaret Quamme
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Last rites for the campus novel by John Dugdale
“Though currently very much on-trend, the campus novel is now approaching retirement age.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/apr/01/last-rites-campus-novel
Posted in Bez kategorii, blogs, campus novel, college novel, The Guardian
Tagged A Very Peculiar Practice, A.S. Byatt, Alison Lurie, Andrew Davies, Bret Easton Ellis, Chad Harbach, Changing Places, David Lodge, Disgrace, Don DeLillo, Donna Tartt, Franny, I am Charlotte Simmons, J.D. Salinger, J.M. Coetzee, Jane Smiley, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Kingsley Amis, Lorrie Moore, Lucky Jim, Malcolm Bradbury, Mary McCarthy, Memories of the Ford Administration, Michael Chabon, Mudwoman, Nice Work, On Beauty, Pale Fire, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, Pictures from an Institution, Pnin, Porterhouse Blue, Possession, Randall Jarrell, Ravelstein, Richard Powers, Saul Bellow, Small World, The Accursed, The Corrections, The Dean's December, The Groves of Academe, The History Man, The Human Stain, The Marriage Plot, The Rules of Attraction, The Secret History, Thinks…, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Sharpe, Tom Wolfe, Vineland, Vladimir Nabokov, White Noise, Wonder Boys, Zadie Smith
“Even when you have finished your schooling, it’s hard to forget the gut-churning excitement, the strange objectless yearnings, that accompany the beginning of the academic year. This is as true, I think, for kindergartners as it is for those completing their final year of college (graduate school, by all reports, is another, far more hellish story). But it is perhaps most intense during our undergraduate days. This mingled ease and pain attains to a special plangency in America, where the past, perhaps because we have so little of it, becomes mythic almost immediately, which I proffer as a reason for the preponderance of American books among those mentioned below. Or you can blame my deep-seated jingoistic urges […] here are eight of the very best books providing the drug of nostalgia we all crave, now that we’re sliding down—as Tom Lehrer once sang—the razor blade of life.”
8/13/2012 – The Daily Beast
Must-Read College Novels: From “Lucky Jim” to “Pnin” by Sam Munson
“Indulging in some late-August back-to-school nostalgia, the Daily Beast put together a list of “Must-Read College Novels” ranging from Kingsley Amis’Lucky Jim to John Williams’ Stoner. As a fan of college, books, and college books, I thought I’d work up a supplementary list: the principal ingredients that no college novel can do without.”
8/27/2012, The Airship
Back to School: A List of Essentials for the College Novel by Kayla Blatchley
http://airshipdaily.com/blog/back-school-list-essentials-college-novel
Posted in campus novel, college novel, Lists, Rankings, Themes
Tagged Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, John Williams, Kingsley Amis, Less Than Zero, Lucky Jim, Martin Amis, Mary McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Nathan Harden, Neal Stephenson, Penelope Fitzgerald, Pnin, Richard Russo, Sex and God at Yale, Stoner, Straight Man, The Big U, The Gate of Angels, The Groves of Academe, The Rachel Papers, The Secret History, Vladimir Nabokov, Wonder Boys