Publish and Perish
Three Tales of Tenure and Terror

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

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

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

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

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