In the 1980s he wrote about television for the Michigan Voice, Mother Jones, and In These Times.

His reviews and literary essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Boston Review, and the online magazine Salon. His most recent novel, Next, was published in 2010. Hynes' three subsequent books, Publish and Perish, The Lecturer's Tale and Kings of Infinite Space, combine satire and horror. His first novel, The Wild Colonial Boy, deals with terrorism in Northern Ireland. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. in philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. He has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Michigan, Miami University, and Grinnell College. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas. Hynes was born in Okemos, Michigan, and grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. James Hynes (born August 23, 1955) is an American novelist. (Apr.University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (2002), the same literate wit should have wide appeal.

While the office may not be quite as juicy a subject for satire as the academic world skewered in the author's last novel, The Lecturer's Tale This is much more than the saga of a man dealing with a nightmare of a. Amusing incidentals include the subversive sentences Paul pens for a textbook and the cat-related fare that is all Charlotte allows him to watch on TV. Indeed, his tale is an uphill battle fighting off co-workers, girlfriends, and ghosts. When the feckless Paul is put to the ultimate test, a Faustian bargain with zombies to surrender his soul and sacrifice Callie for a free ride at TxDoGS, readers will be on the edge of their seats wondering whether he'll do the right thing. The romance he strikes up with Callie, the appealingly goofy company 'mail girl,' provides the novel's emotional center. , 'Are we not men?' This is but the first of a series of uncanny incidents-a corpse in a cubicle no one appears to notice, a recycling bin that seems to have no bottom-that dog Paul at TxDoGS. One hot summer morning, stuck in traffic, he has an encounter with a peculiar homeless man who repeats a question from H.G. An affair having destroyed his marriage and promising academic career, Paul now temps as a tech writer in the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services (TxDoGS) in the Austin-like city of Lamar.

), in this hilarious supernatural sendup of office life. Paul Trilby is still haunted by the ghost of Charlotte, the cat he drowned in 'Queen of the Jungle' (included in Hynes's 1997 story collection, Publish and Perish

Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes