George O’Har, a faculty member in the English Department, has written a novel for Kindle called The Thousand Hour Club. According to O’Har, it’s “a story in which the main character, a gas-pumping drifter and college dropout, finds redemption after he enlists in the Air Force during the Viet Nam War. He does not go to Viet Nam. Instead, he is sent to the Army Language School in Monterey, California, where he is taught Arabic by an Iraqi ex-pat, who was snatched off the streets of Baghdad by the CIA. Eventually, the narrator finds himself in Athens, where he is able to reconnect to his, and by extension, America’s symbolic and spiritual past: the 5th century Athens of Socrates.”