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Contents: The Roast Issue

Introduction
Heather Steffen
Festschrift ................................................................5

Poetry / Fiction
Kevin Dettmar JW: Five Haiku .......................................................6
Tina May Hall Fictional Flowchart ..................................................7
Robin J. Sowards The Compleat Editor .......................................8

Interviews
Eyal Amiran The Pound Era: The Lost Interview with Snoop
Dogg ............................................................................................9
Michael Bérubé and Janet Lyon The Early Years: An Interview
with Jeffrey J. Williams ...........................................................13
Devoney Looser Bereft of Copy: An Interview with the Chronicle
of Higher Education ...................................................................18
Richard Ohmann Gaming the Star System: An Interview with
Jeffrey J. Williams ...................................................................21
Marc Bousquet “You Want Half of This?”: An Interview with
Jeffrey J. Williams ...................................................................23

Notes
Jason Arthur Brisk and Snappy ......................................................30
Jim Cocola “You’ll Know Him When You See Him” ...................32
Victor Cohen Revaluations .............................................................33
Lennard Davis An Institution in the Best Sense of the Word ......34
David Downing The Roast-A-Way .................................................35
John Eperjesi Project Minnesota Review .......................................37
Gerald Graff Jeff as Writer, Editor, and Friend .............................38
Noah Heringman Why I Don’t Read Journals (Except mr) ........39
Katie Hogan Student Debt .............................................................42
Amitava Kumar At the MLA with Jeff ..........................................44
Doran Larson COs Weigh in on Pantless Professor ......................46
Clifford T. Manlove Williams’ Trope of the Profession and Other
Counter-Narratives ..................................................................47
Michelle Massé Jeff Williams’ Third Act .......................................50
Louis Menand Jeff the Obscure ......................................................51
Jeffrey T. Nealon My Messianic Life with Jeff Williams ..............54
Cary Nelson It Could Be Fargo ......................................................55
Bruce Robbins For Jeff— An Undone Roast .................................56
Laura Rotunno *!?*?!--*$&@, Or How I Learned to Love Jeff
Williams ....................................................................................58
David R. Shumway Jeffrey Williams: An Appreciation ................59
H. Aram Veeser The Disquieting Jeff Williams .............................61
Jess Wilton The Editor Hits the Court ..........................................63
Joel Woller Jeff’s “Métier” .............................................................65
Lists and Ephemera
The ARG Collective Top Ten Williams Editorial Comments .....66
The ARG Collective A Mad Lib .....................................................67
Jeffrey R. Di Leo Top Ten Reasons that Jeff Should Continue to
Edit mr ......................................................................................68
Frank Farmer Towards a Geo-Phenomenological Understanding
of Jeff Williams ........................................................................69
Vincent B. Leitch A Most True Portrait of Jeffrey Williams ........70
Kathy M. Newman An Entry from Jeff’s Day Planner .................72
Salita N. Seibert The Lost Issue ......................................................75
Elizabeth Hornbeck The Dark Underbelly of the Star System .....76
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