Fiction. "THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS is a deft, daft satire of bureaucracy, paranoia, professional envy, megalomania, the madness of specialization and the absence of transparency as they infect the university and, in general, our institutionalized existence. But Tom Whalen's exuberant, intelligent, and wryly allusive fiction is also an example--rare in our deadly serious literature--of the marvelous: a headlong adventure in storytelling, reminding us that writing needs no other justification than the esprit of a writer ...
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Fiction. "THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS is a deft, daft satire of bureaucracy, paranoia, professional envy, megalomania, the madness of specialization and the absence of transparency as they infect the university and, in general, our institutionalized existence. But Tom Whalen's exuberant, intelligent, and wryly allusive fiction is also an example--rare in our deadly serious literature--of the marvelous: a headlong adventure in storytelling, reminding us that writing needs no other justification than the esprit of a writer obedient to a high manic imagination. To read Whalen's book is a pleasure well beyond the ordinary; it is, in fact, to bear witness to a prodigious act of creation."--Norman Lock
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