Comments on: Things pretty much OK with academia http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/ "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness." George Orwell Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Emily http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-719 Emily Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:45:54 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-719 It is a vale of tears--but as entertaining as it is traumatizing. Particularly when narrated by you. My entry for the dog protagonist contest: Pompey the Little, who wrote a memoir about his life as a lapdog in 1752 (with a little help from Francis Coventry): http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pompey/index.shtml Not Russian, I am afraid. The closest I can get to Russia with animal protagonists the German cat Tomcat Murr. It is a vale of tears–but as entertaining as it is traumatizing. Particularly when narrated by you.

My entry for the dog protagonist contest: Pompey the Little, who wrote a memoir about his life as a lapdog in 1752 (with a little help from Francis Coventry):
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pompey/index.shtml
Not Russian, I am afraid. The closest I can get to Russia with animal protagonists the German cat Tomcat Murr.

]]> By: Peli Grietzer http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-711 Peli Grietzer Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:58:05 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-711 Clearly we should all have a name-a-literary-dog competition! Clearly we should all have a name-a-literary-dog competition!

]]> By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-710 Elif Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:49:43 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/07/15/things-pretty-much-ok-with-academia/#comment-710 P.S. Even though the article, as originally planned, isn't happening right now, the future is a long and winding road, and I will still be really happy and interested to receive any more responses to the questionnaire. If you would like to receive a copy, please leave your email address <a href="http://www.elifbatuman.com/Contact.aspx" rel="nofollow">here.</a> Also, anyone who would like to read a thoughtful and considered discussion of what is and isn't wrong with academia from the grad student perspective should definitely check out Emily Wilkinson's <a href="http://www.themillionsblog.com/2007/08/in-groves-of-academe-report-from.html" rel="nofollow">"In the Groves of Academe."</a> P.S. Even though the article, as originally planned, isn’t happening right now, the future is a long and winding road, and I will still be really happy and interested to receive any more responses to the questionnaire. If you would like to receive a copy, please leave your email address here. Also, anyone who would like to read a thoughtful and considered discussion of what is and isn’t wrong with academia from the grad student perspective should definitely check out Emily Wilkinson’s “In the Groves of Academe.”

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