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Dear Committee Members

January 15, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Jason Fitger, a creative writing professor at a second (or maybe third-)rate university in the Midwest, has reached a low point in his life. His writing career is kaput, his romantic exploits all too public, and he’s besieged by requests for letters of recommendation. So here, then, is the 2009-10 academic year (with a bit of 2010-11) as depicted through those letters that he must bring himself to write. The Review: Ah, the letter of recommendation. I have […]

Categories: Fiction, Humor, Literature • Tags: Academia, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Dear Committee Members, Fiction, Humor, Julie Schumacher, Literature, Reviews, WMFU novel

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A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall

February 11, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Owen Burr is meant to play water polo in the Athens Olympics but after an accident in his last collegiate game leaves him blind in one eye, he takes off to Berlin where he falls in with a dangerous artist crowd. Meanwhile, his father sets off in his footsteps to try and find him – inciting a minor international incident or two in the process. Their stories take them from California to Athens to Berlin to Iceland, a minor […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall, Academia, Art, Athens, Berlin, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Iceland, Liminalism, Literature, Mythology, Olympics, Philosophy, Reviews, The Tournament of Books 2015, Will Chancellor

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