One of them showed up for a conference wearing a leather jacket draped over a transparent negligee. Several of them devoted their writing assignments to detailed accounts of their sex lives. Temptation was everywhere, Mr. Kashner writes, and eventually he succumbed. He had an affair with a student. The air had become heavy with sex and all its sorrows.
Sorrows is right.
After the student's husband found out she was having an affair with her professor, the article says, he hanged himself and left behind a note blaming Mr. Kashner. Mr. Kashner won't be there to see them. He stopped teaching at William and Mary last spring and is devoting himself full time to his creative writing. Creative writing is what Mr. Kashner does best, some of his former colleagues argue, and point to the G.Q. article as an example. Terry L. Meyers, the chairman of the English department, said he called Mr. Kashner after he learned about the article and asked him point blank if he had ever had an affair with one of his students, if he had ever had an affair with any William and Mary student, and whether he had ever violated the college's policy forbidding sexual relations between professors and students over whom they have authority.