… and asks Tom Wolfe to step in.
It seems to her that only the author of Bonfire of the Vanities can capture the current reality of America’s most hilariously crime-beshat campus, the University of Miami.
Things at UM have gotten Rabelaisian. Dickensian. But both of those writers are dead. Only Wolfe, among the living, can convey everything UM, from the mercenary madness of its science labs to the bitter jihads of its jailed boosters…
Yes, Nevin Shapiro, who, until his Ponzi scheme collapsed, hung out with the team and endowed athletic buildings, has announced from his cell that he’s written a draft of a shocking exposé unmasking fifteen billion NCAA violations.
And just when the football team was beginning to recover from bad publicity over its onfield riots!
August 29th, 2010 at 7:10AM
One question, UD.
Do you like much academic satire or are you exhausted or numbed by contact with the real, bottomlessly ludicrous deal ?
August 29th, 2010 at 7:23AM
Richard: I don’t read much academic satire. I loved Moo, by Jane Smiley, but one Moo goes a long way.
August 29th, 2010 at 9:46AM
But he’s always had the utmost respect for Donna Shalala.
As UD implies, the academic satire genre is just too tough to take if you are in the business.
August 17th, 2011 at 8:46AM
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