"Garber dismisses complaints about the star system within the academy as envy: 'When professors of the humanities and social sciences make headlines, it is often because someone thinks their salaries or lecture fees are too high.'
"Perhaps inevitably, Garber's example of such an envied and resented star is Stanley Fish. Fish's salaries and lecture fees have been part of the lore of academic culture since David Lodge's Changing Places (1975), where he appeared thinly disguised as Morris Zapp, who, 'enviably offered his first job by Euphoria State, had stuck out for twice the going salary, and got it'; and who had 'the professional killer instinct' in a 'profession as steeped in the spirit of free enterprise as Wall Street'. Fish has never written a crossover book, but he might be called a crossover person, especially now that he has been the subject of a lengthy New Yorker profile, 'The Dean's List: The enfant terrible of English lit grows up' (11 June 2001), in which his salary as Dean at the University of Illinois in Chicago is prominently featured. (It's $249,000 - a lot for an academic, but chump change for a software tycoon or Hollywood mogul.)"