Academic Fictions

[David Casseres]

Mikko sez

>Did someone already mention Malamud's _A New Life_?

Now there's a college novel that I liked a lot.  But mostly, I read it as 
an Oregon novel, while I was attending a small college in Oregon.  He got 
it all right.

>What about studies on the academic novel?  I know John O. Lyon's _The
>College Novel in America_ (1962), but there are, of course, more recent
>ones as well.

And that's the kind of thing that gives me that claustrophobic feeling....


Cheers,
David