The March 12 issue of Fiction Friday from the Culture Alliance, included a special excerpt from Dancing with Derrida, an as yet unpublished novel by Mary Grabar, a writer and college English teacher, who earned her Doctorate from the University of Georgia in 2002. Her writing has been published in the Weekly Standard, American Thinker, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, and with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. She has also published short fiction and poetry. Learn more about Dr. Grabar at her website MaryGrabar.com. Dancing with Derrida is set within the University System of Georgia. At the system’s flagship campus, the paths of Morgan Fay, a feminist professor of rhetoric, Sean O’Toole, a hapless lovesick cowboy struggling to meet his teaching duties while completing a dissertation on Robert Penn Warren, and Michael McMann, a California transplant, body-builder, erotica aficionado, and moving company entrepreneur collide in a comedic novel about “the promise of new love and lessons learned about the true nature of postmodernism, feminism, and the sexual revolution.” Here is the prologue from the novel’s manuscript. The dawning of the twenty-first century was a time when all things were possible–-especially at Georgia’s flagship university, the University of

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