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Humour & Satire
The absurd story of a campus coup. Ben Nevis leads an adjunct revolt that purges critical theorists and corrupt administrators from Oregon State and brings the university back to intellectual and human reality. All with a little help from a powerful friend, Moira Drummond, labor attorney and survivor. See More
Length: 141 Pages (508 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Action & Adventure
"Seven Two" is about firefighting like "Moby Dick" is about whaling. If you want to read a title that is strictly a hose opera, I'd suggest "Pipe Nozzle" or "Engine 10." This narrative connects the Pequot Massacre and the Chelsea and other conflagrations with destructive corruption through use a single metaphor---fire. "The call came in around 6:15 pm, early evening, but already dark in the third... See More
Length: 221 Pages (2,887 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Humour & SatireTwo novellas that celebrate the courage of public servants and condemn corruption. See More
Length: 220 Pages (542 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Education & ReferenceMore screed by Barry Roberts Greer, the angry, bitter, smelly old man who wrote "Notes from the Academic Underground" and "Malamud and Spanier at Oregon State University" as well as the campus satire novels "Scone" and "Orgon State." He now brings you more notes from the underside of campus, comment, essays, interviews, and narrative from the academic nether regions. You'll find here offal on... See More
Length: 164 Pages (459 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Education & ReferenceAcademic literary study has been severed for a long time now from literature, which consequently separated literature from reality, reduced literature to an object of examination that taught nothing about life. Malamud and Spanier at Oregon State reconnects literature and life and does so with layer upon layer of irony, but not deliberate irony. The irony just happens to be present at Oregon... See More
Length: 57 Pages (421 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Essays & Correspondence
Collection of essays on mountaineering, firefighting, and higher education. Work published in Orion, Appalachia, High Plains Literary Review, Dog River Review, Eugene Weekly, Summit, Climbing, New Republic, Pipe Nozzle, Wild Oregon, Oregon Conifer See More
Length: 148 Pages (850 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Humour & SatireWhat happens when the White House tries to censor satire on an Oregon campus. See More
Length: 98 Pages (435 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Action & Adventure
Education & ReferenceCommentary on Graham Spanier, indicted former president of Penn State University See More
Length: 76 Pages (374 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Short StoriesA collection of short fiction published previously in The New Republic, High Plains Literary Review, Dog River Review, Appalachia, and elsewhere from 1979 to present. [Barry Roberts] Greer is a writer "blessed with many gifts, especially moral passion. He bears down hard on ignorance, apathy, greed, and calumny, and often his writings have offended those less willing to take the higher road. But... See More
Length: 132 Pages (399 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Action & Adventure
First Run bring my two firefighting novels together under one cover with one change in structure. The third part of Seven Two has been dropped for reprint here although it remains part of the original Seven Two novel. That makes both short novels included in First Run pure firefighting narratives. But "pure" means the stories are embedded in the political and social reality of both the past as... See More
Length: 249 Pages (584 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Essays & CorrespondenceNothing is sacred. So After over 300 revisions and four galley proofs, Barry Roberts Greer's thoroughly obnoxious "Scone" will be released into the wild as yet another academic farce, a vicious satire that targets every sacred shibboleth in the modern university English department. This story of an adjunct rebellion mocks everything from the campus power structure to the plethora of ntellectual... See More
Length: 213 Pages (453 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Essays & Correspondence
The pipenozzle.com blog was started back in 2008 to record my fire service experiences. Since then the Great Recession financially clobbered one fire department after another, and the IAFF and other public service unions remain under assault from the ideological right who are using the Recession as cover to bust unions. So the mission of pipenozzle.com shifted from personal experience, although... See More
Length: 183 Pages (337 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled
Action & Adventure
24 hours in Trump City with the Engine 10 firefighters as they battle through an arson war and fight to defend themselves against the political insanity of a Tea Party takeover following Trump's 2016 election. See More
Length: 178 Pages (400 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled