Life, Love, College, Etc.

“Ted Nelson is the finest writer of our generation.” -- said by Jacob Brackman of the New Yorker to Renata Adler of the New Yorker, in the 1960s, based on this book. This is Ted Nelson’s first book, from his columns in the Swarthmore Phoenix. It celebrates the anguish, squalor and heroism of impoverished, sex-desperate students of the 1950s, living the intellectual life in dorm rooms with cracked walls. These columns were also reprinted at Reed College (without permission), causing Reed students to have an unusual impression of Swarthmore.