A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a complicated ideological position, and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.
About the Author James Hynes is the author of The Wild Colonial Boy and The Lecturer's Tale, a New York Times Notable Book.
His television criticism has appeared in Mother Jones and the Utne Reader.
He lives in Austin, Texas.