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What if, one shining summer day, a friend-in-need asks you to take a job you don’t want, aren’t qualified for, and will just plain hate? If you’re Rob Roy, Professor of English at STATE University, and your sweet son—gone sullen under his headphones—is about to incur some hefty college costs,…


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1 author picked Interim as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Interim is a "campus" novel, which means it takes place on a college campus. The main character is an English professor who takes over as an assistant dean in his college. The book is serious and absurd about what happens in universities today: administrators push paper and come up with quasi-corporate speak and ideas to "run" their business and keep their "customers" (students and their parents) happy. The problem is, the customers don't really know what they want besides a good-paying job and the administrators don't know what they are doing. The faculty, who are the centered of the system,…

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