59 - Clint Margrave - Academic Realities and Fictions

Clint’s poetry collection Salute the Wreckage can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/Salute-Wreckage-Clint-Margrave/dp/1630450243

His collection The Early Death of Men can be found here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Death-Men-Clint-Margrave/dp/1935520601

His novel, Lying Bastard, can be found here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lying-Bastard-Clint-Margrave/dp/1733352619

Write to Clint: https://letter.wiki/ClintMargrave/conversations

Follow Clint on Twitter: @clintmargrave

Further References

Clint’s Areo magazine article, “Forgiving Charles Simic” can be found here:
https://areomagazine.com/2019/05/02/forgiving-charles-simic/

Shaun Koo’s Areo magazine article on exploitation in academe is here:
https://areomagazine.com/2020/03/27/is-capitalism-to-blame-for-exploitation-in-academia/

Clint’s poem “My Therapist Says I Should Date Myself”:
http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v2-margrave.html

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)

David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984)

Richard Russo, Straight Man (1997)

John Edward Williams, Stoner (1965)

Timestamps

1:47 Clint reads the sample chapter, “Prerequisites”
9:55 Why so much academic writing is bad writing
18:45 What inspired Clint’s book
22:01 The title
23:24 Influences on the novel
29:03 The culture of academe
35:33 Writing poetry vs. writing novels
37:00 Clint’s poem “My Therapist Says I Should Date Myself”
42:22 The writing process
44:44 Separating the art from the artist
54:14 Why Clint wrote the novel