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« Lethem's fantasia | Main | Baudrillard obit and mailbag » Wednesday, March 7, 2007What happened at the office?An amusing post at The Elegant Variation, a literary blog, makes me want to hijack its thread. So I think I will. It proposes a reader contest meant to promote the arrival of Josh Ferris's comic novel of the cubical, "Then We Came to the End." The challenge to the reader: who can send in the best workplace story? Mark Sarvas, editor of the blog, throws out a story of mischief misfired that sets the bar at a decent level. I have my own involving a proofreader job I had and quickly left, but I'll save it for now. I don't think their winning story from readers is such a world-beater. Brainiac readers, what have you got? Posted by Evan Hughes at 03:17 PM
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