ASIN: B01N5BIO67
Publisher: b9Web
Pages: 57
A book that should be read by every MFA writing student in the country to demonstrate how to get from reality to prose. Barry Roberts Greer had the good luck to be teaching at Oregon State when Graham Spanier arrived as provost. You remember Spanier, the poster boy for criminal conspiracy and corruption in higher education, the Spanier who covered for a child rapist at Penn State for over a decade and himself ended up convicted of child endangerment. That Spanier who honed the skills he'd use at Penn while provost at Oregon State conspiring to fire a writing instructor for writing. What did the instructor do? What all writers who, he kept writing and took notes to record the sleaze and use it for material, and here you can see how that ugly fact became essay and fiction in Greer's higher ed satire: Spanier's Father, Notes from the Academic Underground, Scone, Campus Reports, and the ...
