What do grad students talk about in their downtime? Why, what books to kick out of the canon of English literature, of course!<\/p>\n
I think between ten or so of us, we nominated the following for de-canonization: I would also add Catcher in the Rye<\/i> by J.D. Salinger. I’m sorry, but Holden Caulfield is the whiniest character I’ve ever read, and he needed to shut up and grow up. (Incidentally, I strongly disagree with Woolf’s nomination, and also Fitzgerald’s–I would, however, devalue The Great Gatsby<\/i> in favor of Tender is the Night<\/i>.)<\/p>\n What would you kick out of the canon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do grad students talk about in their downtime? Why, what books to kick out of the canon of English literature, of course! I think between ten or so of us, we nominated the following for de-canonization: F. 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\nF. Scott Fitzgerald
\nRomeo and Juliet<\/i> (not all of Shakespeare, just R&J<\/i>)
\nThomas Hardy
\nMadame Bovary<\/i> by Gustave Flaubert
\nCharles Dickens (my contribution)
\nVirginia Woolf
\nErnest Hemingway
\nHerman Melville (thanks to Lis over at