Hot Desk: A Novel Ana Gallo AN NPR BEST BOOK OF

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing

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Hot Desk: A Novel Ana Gallo AN NPR BEST BOOK OFYounger meets Writers & Lovers in this rollicking, sparkling, and funny novel that spans decades and generations of a family in the publishing industry. In the post pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a hot 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 Post it notes on the pot of their shared cactus. But when