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Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror ReviewHynes offers up an at-times macabre blend of witchcraft, paranoia, and petty campus politics in three short stories/novellas. My conclusions are equally mixed.
As one with no special love for cats, for me the first story was frustratingly driven by an irksome feline, although producing more comic relief than terror. The second story, very much an homage to Edgar Allen Poe (and acknowledged by the author to be based on another, earlier short story), became transparent early on, stripping the story of surprise and leaving the rest of the story to reveal the grisly details. The third work, remarkably woven into the first two, a la David Lodge, was the best of the three, although witchcraft had more to do with the results than any academic talent or story.
Characters are well drawn and the context provides a realistic setting for the work: offices, conferences, professors' lodging, and campus landmarks. Hynes obviously has spent a lot of time on campus.
Universities provide fertile ground for stories. Professors use their skills, especially in the humanities, to build their resumes and to poke fun at the foibles of academic life. And, given that there seems to be more time absorbed by sex and sordid affairs than by teaching or doing any research, writing anything at all must seem miraculous to the reader. But rare be the campus treatise that captures the life of an academic. "Luck Jim", "Groves of Academe" and others have been popular but quite unrealistically overdrawn. Richard Russo's deft "Straight Man" is the best and funniest university novel I've read. As an academic myself, the concept of "Perish" had a dark appeal and, while I read it quickly, I felt more relieved than rejuvenated at the end.Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror Overview

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