A review by deanna_rigney
Straight Man by Richard Russo

4.0

The protagonist, William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is a witty English professor at a state college in central Pennsylvania. He doesn't take himself or anything too seriously, but as with many academics I've met his colleagues take themselves and the goings-on of their university way too seriously. This sounded all too familiar since I live with an English professor. Amusing tale of academia.