

Deans’ offices and a dining atrium for upper-echelon adminstrators. It seemed that over the summer the Chancellor’s office had emptied out the seventeenth to twentieth floors of the library for a big renovation.

Several months prior to my precipitous departure, as a kind of Wel come Back to School/Fuck You event, the University held a book sale. I had known I’d get wrapped up in it.īut I was more than wrapped up. The manuscript was confounding, its authenticity indeterminate. I hadn’t been planning to leave, and yet I was becoming-not exactly anxious about the manuscript, but overcome. They’d demolish the whole thing soon enough. Many of the fluorescents were burned out or broken, and since the building had been condemned, Facilities Management had declined to fix them. The hallways were dark, but then they were also dark during the day. Some time ago-never mind how long precisely-I slipped off the map of the world. He is the author of the scholarly monograph, Critical Enthusiasm. Jordy Rosenberg is a transgender writer and scholar, who teaches 18th-century literature and queer/trans theory.

It details the life of Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess-the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of their time. Voth recently discovered a long-lost manuscript from 1724. The following is from Jordy Rosenberg's debut novel, Confessions of the Fox.
