"All academic types need to read this book."
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Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and weirdnesses of contemporary American higher education—favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boyfriend-dumping planning, dead-professor missing, committee meeting texting, bureaucratic student misfiling, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing, online teaching-demanding, student-advising failing, professional dysphoria-feeling, drunk-tank loitering, book discussion leading, unwise nasal-behaving, paper researching, academic schooling, sink-fouling, New Years’ kissing, celebratory pool-playing, stranger-disemboweling, paper-writing, paper-writing failing, drinking-game playing, incomplete-taking…Yet, as the characters strive to fit into a rapidly changing institution, medicating themselves as best they can with sex and drugs and literature, learning actually happens. Somehow.
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"Professed in not a screed; it is not a manifesto; nor is it a sappy recount of the personal discontentedness a singular character feels in navigating the university’s hallowed halls. Professed is an empathetic story that captures the interpersonal politics of the English department and the characters who inhabit them. Professed captures each character’s desire to be included into the greater whole. Professed is a must read, not only for the English major, but for anyone who has wanted desperately to belong."
—Brandon Schuler, Press 51 Magazine
Professed
Published by Buffalo Times Press, October 2013
ISBN 978-1943306039
—Brandon Schuler, Press 51 Magazine
Professed
Published by Buffalo Times Press, October 2013
ISBN 978-1943306039
