Publish and Perish Three Tales of Tenure and Terror [Paperback]

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Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academiaa world where Derrida rules, love is a complicated ideological position, and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.

James Hynesis the author ofThe Wild Colonial BoyandThe Lecturer's Tale, aNew York TimesNotable Book. His television criticism has appeared inMother Jonesand theUtne Reader. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Entirely delightful . . . wickedly funny . . . There hasn't been a genuinely adroit novel of academic manners since Randall Jarrell'sPictures from an Institution. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Original, droll, startling . . . Witty and penetrating: Hynes creates pungent satires of academic life while at the same time infusing them with genuine suspense and real terror. Kirkus Reviews

A perfect blend of dark comedy and the ghost story, reminiscent of the best of T. C. Boyle and the best of Poe. David Treuer, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Hynes must have struck a pact with the devil when he began writing these tales because their tone is perfect. Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio

Riveting . . . exhilarating . . . a work of sheer joy. The New York Times Book Review

Deliciously creepy novellas . . . Hynes's writing is diamond sharp, revealing his characters' souls as surely as a Judgement Day angel. Amy Waldman, People