Dear committee members

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249 pages

English language

Published 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4104-7624-1
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OCLC Number:
892804146

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3 stars (1 review)

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small, undistinguished Midwest liberal arts college. His department is facing draconian cuts. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life. In short, his is a tale of woe, told here in a series of letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon to produce, each of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon and low spirits. (Bestseller)

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reviewed Dear committee members by Julie Schumacher

To laugh until you cry

3 stars

Don't let the two stars fool you: this book is funny, at times even laugh-out-loud funny. If you are an academic, or someone who has had to deal with the absurd rituals of recommendation letters (on either side of the equation), you'll almost definitely laugh. I cannot speak from experience, but I suspect if you are an academic in an American institution, you'll laugh even harder. If you are an academic at a Literature/English department in an American institution, you'll probably cry a little too. In spite of all the laughter, the story is a little too thin to carry the book: after the 25th letter, one gets the gist. I also grew to dislike Prof. Fitger so much, that I became unable to appreciate his sarcasm.

Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Letters
  • Employment references
  • Fiction