Julie Schumacher
2) Black box
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
Author
Language
English
Description
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members . Once more into the breach ... Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of Payne University, takes arms against a sea of troubles, personal...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014], 2015.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels ... In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this ... novel uses to tell that tale is a series of ... letters...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual 'Experience Abroad' to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The wonderfully weird illustrations in Doodling for Academics brilliantly capture the bizarre highs and arcane lows of academic life. Full of fun activities to pass the time at staff meetings, this book will be a quirky addition to any academic office"--Glen Wright, creator of Academia Obscura.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gala presentation - May 5, 2007 and winning author interviews with: Taner Akcam, Dianne E. Gray, William Kent Krueger, Jude Nutter, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock, Matthew Sanford, Julie Schumacher, Maureen Millea Smith, Diane Wilson.