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September 2007 :: Jobs (# 48)

FICTION

Ovenman
by Jeff Parker



NONFICTION

Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab
by Melissa Plaut



FICTION

The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta



NONFICTION

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
by Karen Abbott



FICTION

The Assistant
by Robert Walser



MEMOIR

I, California
by Stacey Grenrock Woods



ART

Meetings
by Paul Shambroom



Feature

Interview with Phoebe Damrosch


BOOK NEWS


This Month

This month we work hard for the money. A hilarious debut novel puts you on the short-order line with a disaffected skate-punk, while an interview with Phoebe Damrosch takes you behind the scenes at a foodie Mecca. We also consider a few memoirs of initially questionable career choices. An advertising copywriter takes a job as a cabbie, while another young woman does just about anything in pursuit of fame. Sometimes, what you do for a living gets people riled up. A fictional culture war erupts around a suburban sex-ed teacher, while reformers take to the streets in a history of Chicago's red-light district. The only shock in Paul Shambroom's photos of city-council meetings is the banality of democracy. In a fresh translation of a neglected Swiss classic, a lowly assistant toils away for an irascible inventor. However you punch the clock, you'll find something to distract you in here.

-Toby Warner, Managing Editor

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