Publish and Perish, James Hynes
Publish and Perish, James Hynes
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Publish and Perish
Three Tales of Tenure and Terror

Author: James Hynes

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/21/2010


Synopsis

This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe and bursting with fiendish humor, Publish and Perish features three tales from the not-so-hallowed halls of academia. Hailed as a "delightful collection of the ghostly and the ghastly" by the Austin Chronicle, these stories are brought to wicked life by Adam Grupper. "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

About James Hynes

James Hynes is the author of Next, The Lecturer’s Tale, and Publish and Perish. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Mother Jones, and Salon. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught fiction writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Miami University, Grinnell College, and the University of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maura on May 27, 2019

Very disappointing. Oh, well written and all; sometimes very witty, especially if you've spent any time in academia, among academics. OK, fair dues: there are some hilarious digs at academic prima donnas, academic cat-fighting, and fashions in academic discourse. Just chosen at random: "... he conco......more

Goodreads review by John on December 10, 2013

The toxic careerist culture of modern academia has produced a bounty of wonderfully entertaining fiction, the short list of which must include Kingsley Amis’s “Lucky Jim,” Randall Jarrell’s “Pictures from an Institution,” Malcolm Bradbury’s “The History Man,” John Barth’s “Giles Goat Boy” and David......more

Goodreads review by Hubert on July 05, 2021

A delightful set of 3 novellas (vaguely interlinked) blending academic satire and Poe-ish horror and supernatural. Hynes' delightfully verbose yet descriptive prose adds much atmosphere to each of the stories. In particular he has a good knack of what it's like to be in the midst of the academic uph......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on November 11, 2010

I seldom by books on impulse, but this was one of those times. Since then I have purchased every book by the author and read almost all of them. The writer brilliantly mixes academia with macabre with black humor.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on December 06, 2007

hilarious short stories. One has to do with a cat who discovers his owner, a professor, is cheating on his wife and sets out to sabotage the professor so that his wife finds out.......more