The Shakespeare Requirement

by Julie Schumacher

Academia was, traditionally, a refuge for the poorly socialized and the obsessive;

Fitger imagined a vertically challenged

inamorato, trussed up in a closet.

“we could arrange to kick-start the fund with a semester’s worth of your salary.”

“If you need anything,” he said, “my name is Beck.”

assume your name is Beck even if we don’t need anything,”

learn to speak in statements rather than questions;