And not only wasn’t it a farce it might not even have been a send-up. This campus novel, this academic send-up, had descended into farce.īut the truth is that it hadn’t.
No chairman of any academic department would do such a thing, not even the chairman of an English department. When Straight Man came out in 1997 there was some talk, at least in my circles, that one of its main plot devices-Professor Hank Devereaux’s threat to kill a goose a day until he gets a budget from the administration of his second-rate university-was a bit of a stretch, that Richard Russo, later the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, had gone too far, that he’d asked too much of his readers in the way of credulity.
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