January 22, 1999

A Scholar Makes Peace With Academe

By VICTORIA C. OLSEN

"There's been another suicide." This bombshell was dropped during the last few minutes of a meeting of my writers' group. We were six academic women sitting around a cozy living room in San Francisco in the late afternoon; outside, the darkness seemed premature, daylight-saving time having just ended. Five of us have Ph.D.'s, mostly in literature, but none of us is working as a full-time academic. Only one of us is

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