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Serial Novel Set at Cornell in 1970s

Saturday March 12, 2005 Category: Alumni Permanent Link

Author Gordon Small

Gordon Sanders, Arts ‘73, is writing a new serial novel set on campus during the early 1970s, which is being published as an occasional series by the Daily Sun. You can read the novel on his website.

His purpose in writing? From the latest segment:

I would like to think that I am creating a reliable, if not definitive record of what it was like to be young and mixed up and liberal and experimental—in short, not much different than most of you, dear readers—while passing though the whirlpool of the late ’60s and early ’70s; a tell-like-it-was, unromanticized testament to my fucked-up youth; and perhaps, just perhaps, the first halfway decent novel about the Cornell student experience since Richard Farina ‘62 published his still classic Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.

Here are two other novels which are set on the Cornell campus:

  • Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, by Richard Fariña, who attended Cornell in the late 1950’s but did not graduate, and who died in a motorcycle accident in 1966 at age 29. (Amazon.com link)
  • Fool on the Hill, by Matt Ruff ‘87. (Amazon.com link)
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