"Read the whole thing it one sitting. It reads so easy, and it nails working in education. Highly worth picking up."
--- Paul Grant, Amazon

"I was enthralled by Steve's experiences in academia: the politics of the place, the petty nattering, the need for anonymity; I know these things all too well... As usual, the writing is top-notch. Courage and honesty shine through in both this and in Alcoholic. The novel, at its best, reveals the soul of a poet, not something we should regard lightly in a world sadly empty of soul... An excellent book! "
--- Zsolt Alapi, Siren Song

"Academic is both a love story gone wrong and a wry take on the life of a teacher. Moreover, it is a profound exploration on how to be authentic in a relationship as well as in one's life and work. Hussy writes a fast-paced, gripping, and, at times, funny story about a young man with artistic longings who is caught up in a couple of toxic love affairs yet manages to survive with his soul intact.
"Hussy provides us with some bitter truths and insights that rock us like a punch fully delivered on the jaw: something that hurts yet instructs us at the very same time. A novel that makes us shudder at times, Academic is worthy of the highest praise as is its author for writing a work of both courage and conviction!"
--- Christine, Amazon

"The squeaking springs of filthy beds in decaying rooming-houses. In the hands of Steve Hussy these mundane, everyday sounds become poetry."
--- Tony O'Neill, author of 'Digging The Vein'

"Mr. Hussy has plenty to say about the change [in education], which alone would make this story must reading."
--- Seymour Shubin, author of 'Anyone's My Name'