“For recent Ph.D.’s looking for positions in the fields of language and literature, the frantic surroundings of the M.L.A. convention offer the only dusty rays of hope. It’s a bleak landscape for academic job-seekers in any field, but this year, a flyer in the conference press room trumpeted ‘the sharpest decline in Language and Literature jobs’ since the 1992 recession.” —The Droves of AcademeNY Observer)

I personally have no cause to complain about how the English professor meat market has treated me, but this article brings back many, many painful memories.