Next is a late-and perhaps one of the very last significant-entrants to the 9/11 novel genre. He's trying to escape from a relationship commitment (aren't all single middle-aged men?), but he keeps viewing all the women he meets, on this one most important day of his life, in very objectifying terms-he can't help himself.
Kevin is middle-class white male angst writ large he has a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth and he worries about being killed by terrorists. His book Next is an outrageously funny, stream-of-consciousness novel-reminding us of James Joyce's Ulysses-where we stay in the mind of one Kevin Quinn, a university press editor visiting from Ann Arbor for a day, to interview for an editing job at a private company located in a downtown Austin skyscraper (the skyscraper is important!). It was a city begging to be deconstructed, and now Hynes-who moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Austin-has done it. Austin is a place with many pretensions to liberality it's an overgrown campus town that has accumulated many layers of postmodern irony. James Hynes has delightedly taken apart Austin, Texas.
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