Comments on: When Academics Write Fiction http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/ From the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:34:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Demetri http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-26104 Demetri Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:41:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/#comment-26104 Cool... Cool…

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]]> By: Kim Roosevelt http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-3936 Kim Roosevelt Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:31:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/#comment-3936 You might also like my In the Shadow of the Law. Happy New Year! You might also like my In the Shadow of the Law. Happy New Year!

]]> By: William McGeveran http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-3007 William McGeveran Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:02:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/#comment-3007 I liked the book a lot too (I was only three and a half years behind everyone else!), and I too turned down the corner of the page at that passage! It is, of course, a bit of a jeremiad, a blistering exaggeration that serves to illuminate a more modest but still troubling reality. And we are meant to understand that the narrator who speaks those lines has a ten-ton chip on his shoulder. Like Georgia and you, John, I feel very lucky with my path. But I agree that there is still some harsh truth in Talcott Garland's assessment... I liked the book a lot too (I was only three and a half years behind everyone else!), and I too turned down the corner of the page at that passage! It is, of course, a bit of a jeremiad, a blistering exaggeration that serves to illuminate a more modest but still troubling reality. And we are meant to understand that the narrator who speaks those lines has a ten-ton chip on his shoulder. Like Georgia and you, John, I feel very lucky with my path. But I agree that there is still some harsh truth in Talcott Garland’s assessment…

]]> By: palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-2960 palfrey Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:22:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/#comment-2960 What a hopeful post! It's true, to be sure. You're telling the other side of the story, which is of course important. I consider myself to be incredibly lucky: I love my job and can hardly believe someone pays me to do it. (And I also kind of liked the "massive profit factory" I worked for, but I worked there only for a year or so.) I'm very excited to read Prof. Boyle's Shakespeare <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/467168">book</a> -- on my list to be sure -- and not JUST because of its CC license. Happy Thanksgiving break! What a hopeful post! It’s true, to be sure. You’re telling the other side of the story, which is of course important. I consider myself to be incredibly lucky: I love my job and can hardly believe someone pays me to do it. (And I also kind of liked the “massive profit factory” I worked for, but I worked there only for a year or so.)

I’m very excited to read Prof. Boyle’s Shakespeare book — on my list to be sure — and not JUST because of its CC license.

Happy Thanksgiving break!

]]> By: Georgia Harper http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-2923 Georgia Harper Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:11:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/11/24/when-academics-write-fiction/#comment-2923 Thankfully we have choices. We don't all have to go to work for "massive profit factories." I'm just winding down an 18 year career as an attorney. I started out at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (back when it had a comma in its name...), went to work for the OGC at Univ. of Tx. System, loved (and still love) my clients, never felt cynical or bitter (maybe a bit burned out from time to time), never got a partnership, didn't have my ideology or family collapse around me. But I also didn't make a boatload of money. Made enough to "retire" at 55 though. People in every profession waste their lives, John. It's not just law or legal education that sends people down personally ruinous roads. So, you say it's a really good book, huh? Have you had a look at Boyle's book about Shakespear? Thankfully we have choices. We don’t all have to go to work for “massive profit factories.” I’m just winding down an 18 year career as an attorney. I started out at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (back when it had a comma in its name…), went to work for the OGC at Univ. of Tx. System, loved (and still love) my clients, never felt cynical or bitter (maybe a bit burned out from time to time), never got a partnership, didn’t have my ideology or family collapse around me. But I also didn’t make a boatload of money. Made enough to “retire” at 55 though. People in every profession waste their lives, John. It’s not just law or legal education that sends people down personally ruinous roads.

So, you say it’s a really good book, huh? Have you had a look at Boyle’s book about Shakespear?

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