A bit of older news: Professed got a nice mention by Ms Mentor in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
This year’s protagonists include more adjuncts, who describe their working conditions accurately in novels like Lowell Mick White’s Professed: "a debt slave, a serf. I was teaching two sections of ‘Intro to Literature’ and a section of ‘Composition and Rhetoric’ at the university, and three sections of comp at the community college. I was tending bar three nights a week." When a tenured professor taps this adjunct to trek out to her house to feed her cat while she’s away, she doesn’t even offer to pay him.
So: if you haven't gone out to buy it, you need to....
Buy a boxfull....
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