{"product_id":"9780385538145","title":"Dear Committee Members","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best   Book of the Year:  NPR and Boston   Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinally a novel that puts the \"pissed\" back into   \"epistolary.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature   at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college   in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,   while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly   remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as   is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private   affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with   his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's   Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and   inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of   recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and   colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high   dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear   Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102431789296,"sku":"9780385538145","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385538145_p0.jpg?v=1763694888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385538145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}