The Late, Great David Lodge Helped Us to Relax

I was first introduced to David Lodge’s endlessly great novels when a college girlfriend gave me her copy of Nice Work. The book was assigned to her in a senior-year English literature class at left-leaning University of Texas at Austin, and the fact that it was assigned existed as at least an anecdotal corrective of the popular notion in the 1990s – and now – that college campuses were hopelessly lost to the left-leaning professors instructing the students. Perhaps not at UT, or maybe the professors there were willing to let opposite points of view enter the minds of the students