“Back in April, the Guardian called for the death of the campus novel, claiming the genre has become too crowded, too well-trodden, with writers like Chad Harbach, Bret Easton Ellis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Donna Tartt, and Don DeLillo all shoving each other on the way to the literary rez caf. But six months ago the Guardian didn’t have its hands on Georgia Straight reviewer Michael Hingston’s satire The Dilettantes, a very funny debut that explores a whole, ridiculous new facet of the academic world: a university newspaper.”
September 12, 2013 – Edmonton Journal
Campus novel at top of its class by Karen Virag
September 27, 2013 – The Globe and Mail
Michael Hingston’s Novel Can’t Quite Transcend the Irony It’s Supposed to be Skewering by Emily M. Keeler
October 2, 2013 – straight.com
Michael Hingston takes on the college campus with The Dilettantes by Jennifer Croll
"Schoolsville:" Academic/Campus/College/University Fiction 