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File Size: 2143 KB
Print Length: 193 pages
Publisher: Anchor (August 19, 2014)
Publication Date: August 19, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00ILWUKHM
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This book is a funny and delightful epistolary novel, comprising predominately letters of recommendation from an English professor. If you have ever worked in academia, studied in a university setting, or asked for a letter of recommendation, then this novel will resonate with you. Those in academia will especially appreciate the layers of humor.Jason Fitger is a professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Payne University, a small struggling college in the Midwest. Nothing in his life is going right. He had early success with a novel written while he was in a graduate seminar. Unfortunately, the novel was based on his life and love life as a graduate student. Subsequent novels, also autobiographical of his love life, did not do as well. His ex-wife teaches at the same university and the woman he had an affair with is also employed there. Another ex heads up a writer’s retreat. He is trying to champion the novel of one of his graduate students, but the student’s funding has been cut and he is floundering. The chair of the English Department is a sociologist. Worse yet, the Economics Department, is having a complete renovation. They reside in the same building as the English Department. The Econ profs are evacuated while the English profs are left to deal with the toxic air and construction noise. In the midst of all this, Professor Fitger writes various letters of recommendation for past and present students, letters of complaint to the university, and letters of pining and regret to his ex-lovers.This book is laugh out loud and snort out loud funny. It will really resonate with university professors. Professor Fitger is cutting and sarcastic, but totally nails university life and the inherent politics. For all his bluster and snark, Professor Fitger remains a dedicated and thoughtful teacher. This book is well-written. It is smart and funny. It is also short and can be read in one day. I will be recommending this to my friends who teach at the university level.
I became aware of this book from a review in "The Chronicle of Higher Education," which recommended it, but with the warnings that (a) the main character is a cliché, drawn from countless academic novels, of the cranky male dinosaur prof with women troubles; and (b) the novel's satire is unsupported by a meaningful vision for academe, its jokes cheapened by not being at the service of a deeper purpose.Neither of these criticisms fit my experience of this book, which chronicles a year in the life of English professor Jason Fitger through his correspondence, mostly letters of recommendations (LORs, as he refers to them). Indeed our hero is a type, recognizable both from literature and from life, of the cantankerous, retrograde English prof who clings to his oldfangled ways even as they plunge him into certain obsolescence. But those of us who have struggled with the online forms on which LORs must currently be submitted will find a freshness to the predicaments described here: e.g., to the way that Fitger's answers to the cookie-cutter questions are cut off by the forms, to his refusal to check the boxes that require him to rank students by percentages, and ultimately to his insistence on sending them via "the picturesque blue mailbox on the corner, opening its creaking rectangular metal mouth, and dropping the envelope within." This kind of comedy, which Schumacher handles with aplomb, simply would not work with a different, updated protagonist.Also, despite his superannuated ways, Fitger, as it turns out, has not only a soul but a surprisingly sturdy ability to work the system, which together amount to a vision that easily sustains the satire in this novel (even if it does at times border on the sentimental). Threaded throughout the book are his indefatigable efforts to support a talented but tormented student (Darren Browles), his vain hopes of reuniting with his estranged wife (who learns of his infidelity through an unfortunate "reply all" mishap), and his growing, grudging respect for the sociologist "appointed by the university warlords to rule our asylum [the English Dept.] until the inmates exhibit greater pliability and calm." These threads are tied together in a denouement that, while hardly wildly dramatic, exhibits that Fitger is true to his principles, ready to make sacrifices, and will persevere in the face of whatever hardship life throws his way.As an erstwhile member myself of an English Dept., I also found highly satisfying and quite hilarious the many jabs this book takes at the lavish treatment received by the Economics Dept., which resides in the same building as English just upstairs and is undergoing renovation throughout the year of this epistolary narrative. That renovation accelerates the indignities forced upon the literature faculty by poisoning them with venomous fumes, demolishing the fax machine when a portion of the ceiling collapses almost decapitating the English Department's student assistant, and leaching slick and noxious liquids onto the floor of the men's room which abuts Fitger's office. "But never mind: I'm sure our foreshortened life spans will be made worthwhile on the day when the economists in their jewel-encrusted palanquins, are reinstalled in their palazzo over our heads."These are indeed hard times for the humanities. While this novel lacks the heft to qualify as any kind of masterpiece, even a comic one, and while it will probably (hopefully!) feel dated in a relatively short time, it feels really good to be able laugh along with Julie Schumacher and Jason Fitger at the absurdity of the moment in which we find ourselves now.
I bought this after hearing an interview with the author on NPR. I was so impressed with the interview that I decided to read one of her books. I was a bit disappointed; I have never liked epistolary novels (I did like the Sorrows of Young Werther, but that's an exception), so I took a risk on this one. It is mildly amusing and entertaining. Many times I have found myself wanting to write the kind of recommendations found in this book, so I did smile now and then, but found the premise not sustainable and the structure numbingly repetitive. Still, I am mulling over buying her second book, just out, but school is beginning; I guess I will have to wait on that one until I get all these letters of recommendation written. As they say in the LOR business: I recommend this book with reservations and with mild enthusiasm. If you have any career experience in secondary education or college, the issues in this book will sound vaguely and amusingly familiar.
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