Julie Schumacher

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members . Once more into the breach ... Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of Payne University, takes arms against a sea of troubles, personal...

When Jane Haus, an unmarried school teacher is made pregnant, she quits her job and returns to her childhood home on the New Jersey shore to give birth. The novel describes the reaction of those around her, her father, a retired store manager, her pushy sister, and the neighbors. The mother is dead.

A collection of stories on growing up. The story, The Private Life of Robert Schumann, is on the reaction of a group of girls to advances from their music teacher, while Dummies is on living as a child with an eccentric woman while your mother is in hospital.

When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.