“Concise, poignant, and remarkably honest novel that both documents and satirizes the seriousness with which grad students, scholars, and aspiring writers pursue their interests. Despite their "seriousness," though, these young writers are all talk, all theory, no action...until the book's final act, when they make vastly different choices which actually force them to participate in the real world and forsake the "life of the mind," the life of absolute whininess and inactivity.

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