Blog: Things I'd Rather Be Doing

Joshua Ferris seemed poised to take up the mantle as the best of the country's young literary satirists. His debut novel, Then We Came to the End , was a critical hit and a National Book Award finalist. It was the rare modern novel that was funny and spot-on in its depictions of the workplace. It even took stylistic chances thanks to Ferris' use of a first person plural narrator (the book opens with the wonderful lines, "We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise."). Instead of following that path, however, Ferris [...]