One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Works of Fiction in 2018The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel...

A Best Book of the Year: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very...

Jane Haus weiß zunächst nicht genau, was sie veranlaßt, ihre Arbeit als Lehrerin aufzugeben und sich zu ihrem exzentrischen Vater zurückzuziehen, als sie schwanger wird. Geplagt von Übelkeit, einem kaum bezähmbaren Heißhunger und den...

To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes. . . . Who wouldn’t envy that life?...