"A wonderfully eccentric and entirely original writer."
-Adrienne Miller, Esquire
James Hynes is the author of three novels, Kings of Infinite Space, The Lecturer's Tale, and The Wild Colonial Boy, and a book of novellas, Publish and Perish. He has a new novel, Next, which will be published in the next year or so. His reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Boston Review, Salon, and other places. He used to write about television for the Michigan Voice, In These Times, and Mother Jones, but now he mostly just watches for his own amusement.
A native of Michigan—where, when he sought a pleasant peninsula, he looked about him—James Hynes now lives with two pretentiously named cats in a small apartment crammed with books in Austin, Texas. When he's not working or avoiding working, he rows, runs, and writes about himself in the third person.
On this site, you can find descriptions and reviews of his books (with helpful links to Amazon), his essays from Boston Review and Salon, his book reviews from the New York Times, an old TV review from In These Times, several interviews, and excerpts of his fiction, including one complete story not available anywhere else. There are also links to the websites and blogs of some of his friends. You can read his on-again, off-again blog here.