Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror — James Hynes

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.