improbable career combinations

[ursula]

My ILL time on Patrick Amory's People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy is running out, and I'm enjoying the book enough that I've decided to buy myself a copy. (Short version: "Ostrogoth" was not a well-defined ethnic group with roots in some storied Germanic past.) I poked around to find out what Amory had written since the mid-1990s-- generally one assumes that people who get their Ph.D.s from Cambridge and immediately publish massive, influential, controversial tomes will continue in the same vein-- and discovered that in fact he quit academia to join the management of Matador Records.