Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Workplace Novels Popular
USA Today has a story about insider or workplace fiction:"Little Pink Slips (Putnam, $24.95, out April 12) is part of a new wave of workplace novels written by former insiders in publishing, modeling and Wall Street who dish dirt and gossip about their old jobs," similar to Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada (2003) and The Nanny Dairies by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (2002).
Other titles mentioned are A Model Summer (out April 10), by former supermodel Paulina Porizkova; Mergers and Acquisitions (out Thursday), by former investment banker Dana Vachon; Falling Out of Fashion (April 24), by Karen Yampolsky, a former assistant to Jane editor Jane Pratt; and Because She Can (2007, out now) by Bridie Clark, former editor at ReganBooks.
Apparently, with the new crop of books, "The story itself isn't the star. It's not the quality of the writing or the remarkable characters. Rather, the hook is the inside-the-workplace angle."
Labels: gossip, hollywood, insider fiction, publishing, roman a clef, wall street, workplace novels
