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With its caricatured characters, the relentless chronicling of Artie an Angela's relationship--from inception to ride-off-in-the-sunset ending--Arts and Sciences is at best uninspired and only mildly amusing. And though it may quote Greek and allude to Keats, Mallon's novel remains a mainstream work. Let it float...
...Great American Novel--it may be the dream of every English professor to write it. And although Thomas Mallon, a teacher at Vassar for the past nine years, would scarely call his first fictional work such a novel, he says the motivation is much the same...
...Mallon says every English teacher harbors a desire to write creatively, perhaps because they are closer to their critical subject than other scholars, since they are writing about other people's writing...
...wants to try what one's been writing about," says Mallon, who says his study at Harvard helped prepare him for novel writing because "it encouraged us to write in a way that avoided the worst excesses of academic jargon...
Born in Long Island and educated at Brown before coming to graduate school here, Mallon agrees that his novel is popular fiction because its goal is to entertain. But, he says, "there is a sort of literacy involved" in understanding the novel, which is filled with literary and political allusions...