Seattle Times (2)
"Novel's Cascadia College Shows Its Oregon Origins"
Author Unknown, Seattle, WA
"He had been teaching at Oregon State University in Corvallis, which is thinly disguised in the novel as Cascadia College."
"Malamud easily transferred what he saw at Corvallis to a fictional campusviewed by S. Levin, a young New Yorker with a crinkly black beard and troublesome past."