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Um, it’s not a novel.

VIOLATED: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football’s Sexual Assault Crisis by Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach is scheduled to hit the bookshelves August 22.

Center Street Books of Hachette Book Group announced Wednesday it will publish the novel

A person could be forgiven for assuming a story about an ostentatiously Christian university run by a six million dollar a year coach who looks the other way while his athletes brandish guns and gang rape would of course be fictional. It’s such a crudely conceived, over-the-top hypocrisy tale (including the last-minute desperate appointment of a female president) that most publishers would reject it as absurdly formulaic.

Margaret Soltan, May 25, 2017 11:47AM
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3 Responses to “Um, it’s not a novel.”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    It’s a thing, UD. Fully half of the students in my freshman seminar class last fall referred to any book as a “novel.” There are no works of fiction used in the whole course. A few, God help us, referred even to short articles as “novels.”

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: Big LOL. I kind of knew about this from GW. Not many of my students over the years have called all books novels, but some have. Maybe they’re calling anything they haven’t seen before “novel.” I mean, that’s accurate…

    As for journalists calling non-fiction books novels.. Well, it’s central Texas…

  3. Jack/OH Says:

    I’m tellin’ ya. Something’s goin’ on. Spelling’s gone. How about the use of “tragic”, which, I think, mostly means “bad”, or “unexpected”, or something like that.

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