“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that, the writing he wrote about didn't even need to be literature, or writing about literature, or… — James Hynes Copy Share Image
“A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner’s credo: keep it to yourself.” — James Hynes Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell's talks at the MLA.” — James Hynes Copy Share Image
“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,… — James Hynes Copy Share Image
“An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones… — James Hynes Copy Share Image