Why Mark Kingwell appreciates the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Why the Toronto-based author loves re-reading the classic English book.
This interview originally aired on Nov. 5, 2018.
Toronto-based author Mark Kingwell is a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters, is a philosophical memoir that explores failure and life through the game of baseball.
Kingwell tells The Next Chapter why he's a big fan of a classic novel by the late English novelist Kingsley Amis.
"A book I always go back to is called Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. It's a satire of academic life that I first read when I was an undergraduate. I don't think there's a better depiction of the routine indignities of being a junior academic than that book."