Vermont Bookshop Presents:

Laura Dickerman in conversation with Carolyn Kuebler

Thursday, October 2 at 6:00 PM in the Anderson Studio

Laura Dickerman, a graduate of Bread Loaf School of English and former English teacher, makes her fiction debut this season with a novel set in post-pandemic Manhattan, in the world of high-stakes publishing. In Hot Desk two promising and ambitious young editors are forced to share a desk on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. Having never set eyes on each other, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath begin leaving passive-aggressive notes to one another. But when a revered literary legend (the "Lion") dies, leaving his estate up for grabs, Rebecca and Ben's banter escalates as both work feverishly to land a career-making opportunity. Their fierce rivalry and fateful revelations involving the Lion's behavior with women ultimately force them to decide how far each will go to get ahead, what role they want to play in the Lion's legacy, and what they mean to each other.

Dickerman will be joined by Carolyn Kuebler, editor of the New England Review and author of Liquid, Fragile, Perishable, to discuss what it's like to publish your first novel in mid-life, where commercial and literary fiction converge, and much more. Fiction readers are certain to take delight in sharing in what is bound to be a stimulating conversation between two accomplished women of letters. Please invite a friend—or your entire book group!—to attend this free event in the beautiful new Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater.