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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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Noughties

April 5, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s the last night of uni for Eliot Lamb and his friends.  Tomorrow, they all set off for the real world, a place that seems confusing and strange compared to the Oxford halls they’ve shared for the last three years – but tonight, they’re gonna have a good one, right?  Pub, bar, club – and a whole lot of revelations along the way. The Review: This is the sort of novel that appeals to a very distinct subset […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Ben Masters, College, England, Fiction, graduation, Literature, Noughties, Oxford, twentysomethings, University, WMFU novel

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Truth in Advertising

November 19, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Fin Dolan works in advertising.  He isn’t particularly great at his job, although he isn’t bad at it either.  One thing is for sure: he hates it.  Or at least he thinks he does, he’s not sure.  And when his deadbeat father ends up in the hospital at the same time as a major account bumps up its deadline, Fin spends his holidays figuring out how to be a son, a brother, someone worth loving – and […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advertising, Fiction, Humor, John Kenney, Literature, The New Yorker, Truth in Advertising, WMFU novel

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The Sense of an Ending

April 19, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Tony Webster is an average man.  He has lived an ordinary life, with ordinary adventures.  He has comfortably receeded into later middle age with a comfortable divorce, a comfortable retirement, and a comfortable sense of his history.  This changes when he receives an unexpected bequest and is forced to starkly re-examine the life he thought he’d lived. The Review: This just struck me as I was doing up the summary there: this book and Open City are kindred […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Julian Barnes, Literature, Man Booker Prize, The Sense of an Ending, The Tournament of Books 2011, WMFU novel

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Flatscreen

March 9, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Eli Schwartz is overweight and undermotivated. He hangs out in his mom’s basement – or other people’s basements – doing drugs, maybe having sex, probably just wandering around wondering what the hell he’s supposed to do… Then he meets Seymour Kahn, a paraplegic septuagenarian, and finds himself headed further down this rabbit hole of drugs and ennui… before maybe, just maybe, finding his way out. The Review: A big shoutout to the fine folks at Harper Perennial for […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Adam Wilson, Fiction, Flatscreen, Harper Perennial, Literature, Slacker novel, WMFU novel

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