“… [the book] gives Bury an opportunity to speak his mind about what it means to be trained as a professional literary critic and the very real personal and professional questions and concerns related to that pursuit.

“… this engaging, invigorating, and often very funny book will no doubt be of great interest to current or recovering graduate students in literary studies.

“[…] Bury’s book offers readers an experience akin to peeking inside a music box with only a glass shelf covering its moving, mechanical parts.” —Johannah Rogers, The Brooklyn Rail

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