Running an Ivy League university isn?t all it?s cracked up to be, at least not for Meredith Ruth Neukirchen, known as M.R., the protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates? new novel, ?Mudwoman.? She?s the first woman to be president of an unnamed school in New Jersey, an obvious stand-in for Princeton, where Oates, who received her master?s from UW-Madison in 1961, is a professor.
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