Bartleby in NYC
Some friends of Housing Works Bookstore are hosting a marathon reading of Herman Melville’s novella Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. It’s only 45 pages, but it’s an exciting 45 pages....
View ArticleThe Art of the Office Novel
Office fiction is deliberately and narrowly construed as being about manners, sociability, gossip, the micro-struggles for rank and status—in other words, “office politics”—rather than about the work...
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The Lonely Voice #32: The Last Lonely Voice
I began this column in 2008 at a pretty rough time in my life. And ever since, periodically, some of you have read (listened to? for some reason I like the idea that when something is read, I mean...
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What to Read When Your Workplace Is Full of Drama
Yesterday morning, James Comey gave his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, accusing the White House of “lies, plain and simple.” And that’s probably true, but since we don’t really know...
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This Thing of Existence: Talking with Rion Amilcar Scott
I keep googling Cross River, Maryland, to see if it is real. Of course, it’s not; it’s the city Rion Amilcar Scott created to tell the stories in his two excellent short story collections,...
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