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Murder at the MLA
Murder at the MLA: A Novel | D. J. H. Jones
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After two mysterious deaths at Chicago's Hotel Fairfax during the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, homicide detective Boaz Dixon enlists the aid of Yale assistant professor Nancy Cook to guide him through the academic world during his in
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Woolfwomyn

The author calls a particular type of scholar Tweeds. My friends and I used the term Tweedy to describe the guys who make long, rambling comments about their own work after hearing our papers without asking a question at all. This book is itself a bit Tweedy. There's so much observational exposition that I forgot people died at the beginning! Have to put it down for awhile. Hibernating.

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Woolfwomyn

I left academia almost six years ago, and I'm already flinching ten pages in. Doesn't hurt that the last MLA I went to was in Chicago, where this story is set.