by Laurie Henry

Michael Chabon, "Wonder Boys", 1995; Jane Smiley, "Moo", 1995; Don DeLillo, "White Noise", 1985; Gail Godwin, "The Odd Woman", 1974; Alison Lurie, "The War Between the Tates", 1974; John Barth, "The End of the Road", 1967; Randall Jarrell, "Pictures From an Institution", 1952; Mary McCarthy, "The Groves of Academe", 1951

"AFTER CREATIVE-WRITING professor Grady Tripp encourages a student to nose around in his department head's locked bedroom cabinet; after the student shoots and kills the department head's dog; after a drunken visitor reveals Grady's affair with the department head's wife, Grady either leaves or is fired from his job. He marries his pregnant lover and tries to get back to work:

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