Ebook {Epub PDF} The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher

About The Shakespeare Requirement One of The Washington Post ‘s 50 Most Notable Works of Fiction in The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee www.doorway.ru: On. The Shakespeare Requirement. by Julie Schumacher. Art Edwards. New York, NY: Doubleday, pages. $ For every person who agrees with something you take as gospel, there are at least two who don’t, and a decent number who believe something diametrically opposed. The years of Trump, #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter have brought this lack of agreement to the fore, thanks Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · In “The Shakespeare Requirement,” Schumacher blends satire with righteousness; she seeks to circle collegiate wagons against external threats to the liberal www.doorway.ru Accessible For Free: False.

Julie Schumacher, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will read from and discuss her new novel, The Shakespeare Requirement.. The novel takes place at Payne University, where Jason T. Fitger, the hapless anti-hero of Dear Committee Members, has been elected chair of his dysfunctional department. Fortunately, Julie Schumacher's new novel The Shakespeare Requirement takes the collapse of American humanities as its www.doorway.ru's a sequel to 's Dear Committee Members, a book. Laugh-out-loud [Schumacher] wields cutting remarks that are as sharp as ever. The Shakespeare Requirement is a bitter delight, perhaps, but a delight nonetheless. --BookPage. About the Author. JULIE SCHUMACHER grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University, where she earned her MFA.

Like the best campus comedies, The Shakespeare Requirement satirizes all manner of academic pieties while maintaining a soft spot for the embattled humanist There's something to be said for the subtle humor tinged with pathos that hums through Schumacher's book." — The Minneapolis Star Tribune. _ The Shakespeare Requirement _offers a desperately funny take on campus foibles, as Schumacher stretches reality to the boundaries of absurdity in this raucous underdog tale.” — Booklist “Schumacher blends satire with righteousness; she seeks to circle collegiate wagons against external threats to the liberal arts. Jason Fitger, the beleaguered English professor who was the protagonist of Julie Schumacher's very funny Dear Committee Members, takes us on a return trip to Payne University in Schumacher's new book, The Shakespeare Requirement. Fitger, pompous and irascible as ever, finds himself elected chair of the English department, and he has no idea of the chaos and aggravation that awaits him.