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