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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

Rebecca Blume knows two things about Ben Heath. He’s a new editor at a rival publishing division – and he has terrible desk-sharing skills. 
 
What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive post-it notes escalates with the death of literary titan Edward David Adams, A.K.A. The Lion. His estate is up for grabs, and Rebecca and Ben are thrown into a fierce competition to land it. 
 
But when secrets about the Lion emerge, they are forced to ask - what role do they want to play in his legacy? 
 
And most importantly, is their post-it war actually . . . flirting?

*PRE-ORDER* the hilarious, sexy and smart new romantic comedy perfect for fans of You've Got Mail, Attachments and Good Material 
 
Rebecca Blume knows two things about Ben Heath. He’s a new editor at a rival publishing division – and he has terrible desk-sharing skills. 
 
What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive post-it notes stuck to a shared cactus escalates with the death of literary titan Edward David Adams, A.K.A. the Lion. His estate is up for grabs, and Rebecca and Ben are soon thrown into a fierce competition to land it. 
 
But when secrets about the Lion emerge, they are forced to ask – what role do they want to play in his legacy? 
 
And most importantly, is their post-it banter actually . . . flirting?

Laura Dickerman has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College, an MA in Fiction from NYU, and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s The Bread Loaf School of English. She has taught high-school English at The Hopkins School, the Collegiate School for Boys, and Germantown Friends. She was an intern at The Paris Review many years ago. She’s been a bookclub leader, private tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her Xeroxing skills.

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