1982 ‘Rollicking and hilarious’
People Magazine ‘A comedy of manners for anyone who loves Curtis Sittenfeld, Nora Ephron, Alison Espach or, well, anyone. I challenge any reader not to fall in love with this charming debut’ Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year ‘So charming and so accomplished, Hot Desk is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, satirical, cutting and FUN. I absolutely loved it’
Fiction from NYU and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s 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, many years ago. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her youngest brother where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She’s been a book club leader, tutor and recipient of an NEH grant. She has lived in Vermont, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Brussels and currently lives in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.
‘A funny, deeply wise novel that captures all the thrills and aches of setting out in the world. Dickerman shows us that while Gen X and Gen Z may be very different, some things – friendship, ambition, the restorative magic of hangover takeout – are eternal’ Morgan Dick, author of Favourite Daughter ‘Hot Desk is pure, grade-A reader’s delight. Dickerman’s satire of the publishing industry across decades is pitchperfect, but beneath all the laughs are serious and important questions about legacy, friendship and who gets the right to tell a story’ Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding
Jane Kinloch arrives at the legendary townhouse offices of the East River Review as a wide-eyed intern with big dreams. When she strikes up a friendship with glamorous fellow intern Rose, the two soon become inseparable. But Rose’s attraction to their married boss, literary titan Edward David Adams, threatens to drive a wedge between them.
2022 Once upon a time in publishing, editors had their own offices. But now, to her great chagrin, Rebecca Blume of Avenue Publishing must share custody of a ‘hot desk’ with Ben Heath, editor at rival imprint Hawk Mills.
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Laura Dickerman has an MA in
Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop
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What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive Post-it notes about an unwatered cactus escalates after the death of renowned writer Edward David Adams. He has left behind an unpublished manuscript, and Ben and Rebecca are soon vying for the careermaking opportunity to publish it. COVER SIGN OFF
But when Rebecca discovers that the manuscript contains a decades-old secret about her mother, Jane, she is determined to stop it from seeing the light of day.
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Cover illustration by Ana Popescu Author photograph © Sophie Jacobson
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Can she persuade her infuriating (and annoyingly handsome) rival deskmate to let it go?
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