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Buddha Was a Cowboy

A Novel

by Junior Burke
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A progressive, alternative university is targeted for takeover by conservative forces in this satiric tale. Aaron Motherway is a Hollywood screenwriter, who, while recovering from a traffic accident, is tapped to run the arts program at Parami University, located in Pearl Handle, Wyoming. What Aaron doesn't know is that he is being set up to fail by various duplicitous forces. Buddha Was a Cowboy is a metaphor for many of the issues engulfing and dividing America today, and a darkly humorous take on the current cultural landscape.

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    September 13, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781948721196

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      • ISBN: 9781948721196
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    • English

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      September 1, 2022
      Screenwriter Aaron Motherway's summer gig as a writing teacher at Parami University, a Wyoming institution specializing in Mindful Instruction, abruptly turns into a full-time position running its arts program. Aaron feels out of his league but tries to be a good administrator, whether he's dealing with department faculty--including the poet on an 11-year (and counting) sabbatical and the male feminist-theory professor known for arranging "immersive study" courses for attractive female students--or advising such wayward students as bathrobe-clad ascetic Nolan and lobster-torturing performance artist Opal. Little does Aaron know that he has been hired as part of a covert takeover of the university by an evangelical church bent on replacing the faculty and curriculum from the inside out. Author and songwriter Burke (The Cold Last Swim, 2020) founded the low-residency MFA program at Naropa University and his portrayal of academic arts administration is both good-natured and razor-sharp. Enthusiastically recommended for fans of Julie Schumacher (Dear Committee Members, 2014; The Shakespeare Requirement, 2018), Jane Smiley (Moo, 1995), and Tom Perrotta (Tracy Flick Can't Win, 2022).

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