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“Bruce Gatenby’s The Kingdom of Absurdities is an uneasy, startling, and outrageous read–it’s satire of the old variety, meaning it’s an impolite and necessary book in these times in which the American university has neutered itself. The fiefdoms are found in deans’ and chairs’ offices, where beknighted and tenured faculty protect their stations, while beneath them, an entire serfdom of graduate students, teaching assistants, adjunct faculty, and visiting instructors scramble to appease their lordships. The values of this kingdom? Orthodoxy. Safety. Conformity. Gatenby, in the tradition of Swift, Kafka, Orwell, and The Who, reminds us in this great comic novel that the new boss (in shiny post-structuralist garb) is very much the same as the old boss.”

–Jim Brock, author of Nearly Florida and The Sunshine Mine Disaster

“The Kingdom of Absurdities is a funny, dazzling, sharp-tongued assault on academia and its discontents. Bruce Gatenby’s writing blasts through professorial mediocrity with the matter-piercing power of destabilized neutrinos. The best academic satire since Lucky Jim.“

–Claire Berlinski, author of Loose Lips, Menace in Europe and There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

“Overall, Gatenby’s voice is winning, his storytelling skills natural, and his wit is wicked.”

–John Williams, Harper Collins