UM: Loiterature

On her blog the deletions, Pam Brown writes that she’s reading “Loiterature” by Ross Chambers, UM’s Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature. She quotes extensively from the book, including this excerpt: “These verses might have been written (or composed, or generated) only a few yards from where I sit, at the intersection of N. University and S. State in Ann Arbor, the suture point (in my personal myth of the city) where the campus meets the town. No campus dogs in evidence (expensive animals on leashes don’t qualify). Times change. When Frank O’Hara came to Ann Arbor in 1950 he was amused by the Midwestern candor of the cafeteria signs that read, bluntly, FOOD; today they’re more likely to read cappuccino, and it’s hard to find a cafeteria.” [Source]