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Product Description <br/>It’s the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America’s most prestigious creative-writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry. Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life. Wickedly entertaining, beguiling, layered, and sly, Loudermilk is a social novel for our time: a comedy of errors that deftly examines class, gender, and inheritance and subverts our pieties about literature, authorship, art making, and the institutions that sustain them.<br/> About the Author <br/>Lucy Ives is an experienced author who spent five years as an editor for Triple Canopy. A professor at the Pratt Institute, she received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, her master's from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. She lives in New York City.<br/><br/>Joel Froomkin is a two-time Earphones Award-winning narrator who specializes in dialects. Classically trained with a master's degree in theater, he has narrated over one-hundred titles. When not narrating, he can often be found chasing two loquacious weiner dogs who delight in preventing him from recording.