Literary Police Blotter

Who says literary sneakiness can’t have a big payout?

In a brazen attempt to attract students to the pleasures of reading by associating classic literature with acts of senseless violence, a professor at a well-known liberal-arts college ran the following log in the pages of the campus newspaper. The local bookstore noted a sudden spike in sales of The Iliad.

The full story is in The Chronicle of Higher Education and it’s here.

Hat tip to Barbara Fister.