Reading Between the Lines
October 27
How did the publishing world arrive at such dull ambitions?
Jess Bergman
Jess Bergman is a senior editor of The Baffler and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents.
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The young woman works in an office. Her job is tedious: data entry, or coordinating the logistics for meaningless products, or proofreading niche trade publications with improbable names. She has no friends or resents the one she has. Her boyfriend is distant. Perhaps he’s not ...