Hot Desk

Hot Desk is pure, grade-A, reader’s delight. Dickerman’s satire of the publishing industry across decades is pitch-perfect, revealing all of its blindspots and absurdities. But beneath all the laughs (and there’s a lot of them) are serious and important questions about legacy, friendship, and who gets the right to tell a story. It’s the sexiest, funniest book party you’ll be invited to this year, and I promise you don’t want to miss it. * Grant Ginder, author of THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING *The funniest novel I’ve read in ages! But also the most romantic! Hot Desk had me, by turns, laughing and swooning. This is a comedy of manners for anyone who loves Curtis Sittenfeld, Nora Ephron, Alison Espach or, well, anyone. So spot-on in its depiction of literary world mores, I nearly sprained my neck nodding in recognition. I challenge any reader not to fall in love with this charming debut. * Joanna Rackoff, author of MY SALINGER YEAR *A fresh take on classic rom-coms, Laura Dickerman’s clever comedy of manners captures the timeless romance of literary New York. * Jillian Medoff, bestselling author of WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL *

Laura Dickerman has an MA in Fiction from NYU and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She was an intern at The Paris Review many years ago. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She’s been a high school English teacher, bookclub leader, tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.