Althouse: Lorrie Moore is leaving the University of Wisconsin.

January 28, 2013

Lorrie Moore is leaving the University of Wisconsin.

A sad day for us!

She came here in 1984 — the same year I did — back when "Self-Help" was still a manuscript.

13 comments:

kentuckyliz said...: Vandy--more status for her.

Also, is she a Phil Mickelson of academe?

TN has no income tax.; 1/28/13, 9:06 PM
kentuckyliz said...: The winter is nicer.; 1/28/13, 9:07 PM
edutcher said...: Did you know her?

If so, it's tough saying good-bye to an old bud.; 1/28/13, 9:18 PM
Ann Althouse said...: When you've been here this long, you can retire and take your pension if you are old enough. Nothing stops you from starting a new job, with a new salary.

I think the age to retire (if you have enough years) is 55. Moore is 56.; 1/28/13, 9:18 PM
KCFleming said...: I loved Who Will Run the Frog Hospital.; 1/28/13, 9:44 PM
AHL said...: I bought "Self-Help" a few years ago and I absolutely loved it. I bought her book because of the short story, "How to be an other woman." Such a wonderful cultivator of the short story!; 1/28/13, 10:20 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: She's gonna make it after all.; 1/28/13, 10:21 PM
McTriumph said...: She's bored with you Midwesterner hillbillies, she's reloading with new Southern hillbillies.; 1/28/13, 10:27 PM
rhhardin said...: Thurber's _Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces_ was the definitive self-help book.; 1/29/13, 4:29 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: When you've been here this long, you can retire and take your pension if you are old enough. Nothing stops you from starting a new job, with a new salary.

Ah, the enviable position of the double-dipper. A couple who a friends of ours: the husband retired from the military (pension+benefits), retired from a lucrative oilfield job (pension) and is now working in another lucrative oilfield job (income+benefits) while the wife has a full-time federal gov job (income+benefits) from which she will also receive a pension. We look on in admiration and wonder.; 1/29/13, 6:29 AM
MadisonMan said...: I am never upset when a person leaves a University. I think you grow stale staying in the same place.
And if this dries up MFA applications to the UW, is that necessarily a bad thing?

Will this change Moore's writing? You are a product of your environment after all.; 1/29/13, 6:35 AM
Phil 314 said...: You live in a unique world Professor. Recent news suggests that has been true for centuries; 1/29/13, 7:10 AM
Astro said...: Ruth Anne Adams said... She's gonna make it after all.

Yes, but does she throw her Sir/Saint Lorrie Moore hat into the air?; 1/29/13, 3:33 PM