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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Academia Nuts
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  • Dedication: To Christopher Bentley

  • ‘Wilding’s writing is rich in humour, fantasy and sharp social observation.’ Bruce Bennett, Contemporary Novelists

    ‘He is so exhilaratingly adept with narrative you cannot put the book down . . . Wilding’s pen is sharp as a rapier.’ Jan Meek, Vogue Australia

    ‘If, like most of us, you’ve begun to sense that life is not quite so simple, then maybe Wilding is exactly who you should be reading.’ David English, Weekend Australian

    ‘Wilding has steadily produced, for over thirty years, work of high and lasting merit . . . To be a writer like Wilding is to be whole in a sense that should never be lost, not as long as the written word appears between the pages of a literary book.’ Don Graham, Antipodes 2

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Wild and Woolley , 2002 .
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      Extent: 237p.
      ISBN: 0909331944
    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Wild and Woolley , 2003 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 238p.
      Note/s:
      • 2nd ed.
      • Ending varies between the first and second editions.
      ISBN: 0909331944 (pbk)
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Related Works

Writing Class Michael Wilding , 2000 extract novel (Academia Nuts)
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , July vol. 1 no. 1 2000; TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 7 no. 1 2003;
Listen to the Marking Birds Michael Wilding , 2002 extract novel satire (Academia Nuts)
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 October 2002; (p. 36)
y separately published work icon Superfluous Men Michael Wilding , Kew : Arcadia , 2009 Z1610689 2009 single work novel humour 'Henry, Pawley and Dr Bee from Academia Nuts have taken early retirement. But what awaits them? Does anything? Pawley buys a dacha high in the Valley of the Weed. Dr Bee cruises the shopping malls. Henry is lured by the Director of the Writers' Centre to be her Chair. Vistas of arts bureaucracies lie all before them.' (Back cover.)
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Works about this Work

Interpretation of Academic Fiction in Britain, America and Australia Zhang Rongsheng , Ding Wei , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies – Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Australian Studies in China 2015; (p. 102-109) 'As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Well-known academic novels include Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and David Lodge's Small World in Britain; Saul Bellow's Herzog; Nabokov's Pnin in America; Michael Wilding's Academia Nuts and Elizabeth Jolley's The Sugar Mother in Australia. From a global point of view, this paper aims to explore the development of academic fiction in Britain, America as well as Australia. Academic novels are often comic or satirical, often counterpointing intellectual pretensions and human weaknesses. Some, however, attempt a serious treatment of university life. Academic fiction develops at a rapid speed in the 20th century and has become an indispensable and distinct genre of literature worldwide.' (102)
Michael Wilding (1942-) Pradeep Trikha (interviewer), 2007 single work interview
— Appears in: Delphic Intimations : Dialogues with Australian Writers and Critics 2007; (p. 11-25)
The New Idea of the University as an Academic Theme Park: Academia Nuts Stephen Conlon , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society , no. 1 2007;
Reality beyond Imagining Michael Wilding , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 11 2006; (p. 65-73)
The (Im)Pure Good of Literature Simon Caterson , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 May 2004; (p. 24) This column deals with the relationships that form between literature teachers and their students and how this theme is treated in novels. There is also a reference to J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace.
Soft Covers Cameron Woodhead , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 February 2003; (p. 8)
— Review of Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel
The Tertiary Industry Laurie Hergenhan , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel
University of Hamburger Tony Smith , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 249 2003; (p. 61)
— Review of Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel
Playful, Satiric and Fabulous Michael George Smith , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 92 2003; (p. 72-77)
— Review of Alanna Alan Saunders , 2002 single work novel ; Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel ; Spirit of the Rose Pat Skinner , 2002 selected work short story
Going Feral Phillip Edmonds , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 7 no. 1 2003;
— Review of Academia Nuts Michael Wilding , 2002 single work novel
Writer's Reality Stranger Than Tale Luke Slattery , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 April 2003; (p. 13) Slattery reports on the impounding of the first edition of Wilding's Academia Nuts by the English Department at the University of Sydney. The move led to Wilding revising the ending of his novel prior to the publication of the second edition in April 2003.
Two Takes on the Naked Campus Elspeth Probyn , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 April 2003; (p. 36)
The (Im)Pure Good of Literature Simon Caterson , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 May 2004; (p. 24) This column deals with the relationships that form between literature teachers and their students and how this theme is treated in novels. There is also a reference to J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace.
Reality beyond Imagining Michael Wilding , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 11 2006; (p. 65-73)
The New Idea of the University as an Academic Theme Park: Academia Nuts Stephen Conlon , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society , no. 1 2007;
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