Reading List campus novels

Conversational Reading: A Reading List from Mark McGurl's The Program Era

In particular, McGurl has a little bit of fun working with the "campus novel" genre, and I'll put a few of his selections here: / /

* /The Big U/, by Neal Stephenson.
* /Japanese by Spring/, by Ishmael Reed. /
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* /Moo/, by Jane Smiley. /
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* /Straight Man/, by Richard Russo.
* "Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way," by David Foster
Wallace (from /The Girl with the Curious Hair/). /
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* /The Dean's December/, by Saul Bellow. /
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* /The Groves of Academe/, by Mary McCarthy. /
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* /Blue Angel/, by Francine Prose.
* /The Disguises of Love/, by Robie Macauley. /
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* /Galatea 2.2/, by Richard Powers. /
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* /The Professor of Desire/, by Philip Roth.
* /The Handmaid of Desire/, by John L'Heureux. /
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* /Pale Fire/, by Vladimir Nabokov. /
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* /The Professors Like Vodka/, by Harold Loeb.

He leaves out /Pictures from an Institution/, by Randall Jarrell, but you shouldn't--read that one first.