Ray Levy is assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is author of Negative Space and A Book So Red.

Ray Levy’s School is a blistering and bitterly funny send-up, lampooning deconstructionism and the academy at large. With crackling wit and exhilarating formal play, Levy has given us a welcome antidote to the toxic culture of (some) graduate degree programs in literary studies." —Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories"There is such pleasure to be found in School, such virulence and cruelty. It’s a novel in rituals, a novel to read and reread until you disappear into its demon-ridden thickets of meaning and emerge as anything, a six-headed elk-owl that sings in the voice of Nancy Sinatra, a cenobitic orca, the end of Hegel." —Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan

Ray Levy is assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is author of Negative Space and A Book So Red.

Ray Levy’s School is a blistering and bitterly funny send-up, lampooning deconstructionism and the academy at large. With crackling wit and exhilarating formal play, Levy has given us a welcome antidote to the toxic culture of (some) graduate degree programs in literary studies." —Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories"There is such pleasure to be found in School, such virulence and cruelty. It’s a novel in rituals, a novel to read and reread until you disappear into its demon-ridden thickets of meaning and emerge as anything, a six-headed elk-owl that sings in the voice of Nancy Sinatra, a cenobitic orca, the end of Hegel." —Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan