Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror

8 best books like Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror (James Hynes): Bunnicula, Me, Dear Committee Members, Straight Man, Changing Places, Rick Steves' Italy 2007, The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Bunnicula

Author	James Howe
ISBN	1416928170

(This review is from 2004.)

Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.

So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...

Author	Elton John
ISBN	1250147603

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.

Christened...

Dear Committee Members

Author	Julie Schumacher
ISBN	0385538138

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...

Straight Man

Author	Richard Russo
ISBN	0375701907

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...

Changing Places

Author	David Lodge
ISBN	0140170987

Changing Places is the first of David Lodge's "Campus" series, this one being set in 1969 and published in 1975. The sexual revolution, Vietnam, student sit-ins and smoking "pot" are all highly topical themes; the novel is pure "psychedelic '60's." The style is redolent of Lodge's dry, sardonic humour,...

Rick Steves' Italy 2007

Author	Rick Steves
ISBN	1566918162

Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see Rome, Venice, Florence, the hill towns of central Italy, the Dolomites, and the Amalfi Coast? With Rick Steves' Italy 2007, travelers can experience the best of everything Italy has to offer — economically and hassle-free. Completely revised...

The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking

Author	Theresa L. Flores
ISBN	0982328680

Yea....I couldn't even finish this book. FIRST, let me clear that this is nothing personal against her story. What happened to her was terrifying and horrible. My thoughts and review are on her BOOK - how she told her story. I do not think the story was told well. There was lots of repetition - I felt like...

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Author	Michael J. Sandel
ISBN	0374203032

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities?...