A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a smalltown English professor.The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey is a kind of postmodern MayDecember black comedy about the 60ish cancerstricken Oxford educated Irish English literature professor Malcolm Malarkey who falls in love with the beautiful 30ish Italian returning graduate student Liliana Liliano who by then has tragically lost her husband in an auto accident. Malarkey has no respect for things that are politically correct and often runs into problems with the administration if not the local police while Liliana. after years of trying to crack the glass ceiling quits the corporate world and returns to university to pursue her passion literature.ampamp160ampamp160After a relatively quick relationship they fall in love.