January 19, 2004

Virginia Heffernan writes:
Few academics slog through [Sir Walter] Scott anymore, but English departments still need Scott scholars; you can jump the line of more modish tenure seekers, if you volunteer to play the frump.
That’s Ryan Seacrest she’s referring to.

Yes, I know, tonight it begins again. The Tivo is set.

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