Hot Desk

'The funniest novel I've read in ages! But also the most romantic! 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' 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 after the death of literary titan Edward David Adams, A.K.A. "the Lion," when Rebecca and Ben are thrown into a fierce competition to land his estate.
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?
'Pure, grade-A reader's delight. The sexiest, funniest book party you'll be invited to all year and I promise you don't want to miss it.' Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding
'A fresh take on classic romcoms . . . captures the timeless romance of literary New York' Jillian Medoff, bestselling author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful

Laura Dickerman has an MA in 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 younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She's been a bookclub leader, tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. She has lived in Vermont, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Brussels, and currently in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.