David Duchovny, the star of series like “The X-Files” and “Californication,” becomes a recurring figure in Netflix’s “The Chair,” a satirical send-up of modern academia starring Sandra Oh as the beleaguered new chair of the English department at struggling (and fictional) Pembroke University.
When the wife of Pembroke’s dean (David Morse) insists that a prestigious lecture series go not to a seasoned academic like junior professor Yasmin McKay (Nana Mensah) but instead to Duchovny, Oh’s Ji-Yoon Kim reacts with incredulity — even when the dean assures her that Duchovny is a “New York Times bestseller.” He adds, “Look it up.”
And we did. Turns out Dean Larson is right (even if hiring guest lecturers based on who his wife bumps into at the farmer’s market remains questionable). Duchovny’s 2015 debut novel, “Holy Cow,” entered the Times’ hardcover fiction list at No. 16. The actor has since published three more novels,...
When the wife of Pembroke’s dean (David Morse) insists that a prestigious lecture series go not to a seasoned academic like junior professor Yasmin McKay (Nana Mensah) but instead to Duchovny, Oh’s Ji-Yoon Kim reacts with incredulity — even when the dean assures her that Duchovny is a “New York Times bestseller.” He adds, “Look it up.”
And we did. Turns out Dean Larson is right (even if hiring guest lecturers based on who his wife bumps into at the farmer’s market remains questionable). Duchovny’s 2015 debut novel, “Holy Cow,” entered the Times’ hardcover fiction list at No. 16. The actor has since published three more novels,...
- 9/5/2021
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
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