In This Issue

Absurdity in the workplace has been an endless well of artistic inspiration for generations, whether it's Severance and Abbott Elementary nowadays, Working Girl and Office Space in the age of VHS, or Bartleby, the Scrivener more than 100 years earlier. And we're heaving up bucketloads of primo new examples in today's newsletter, featuring Spanish journalist Beatriz Serrano's hypnotically brilliant novel Discontent, about an "advertising executive's strategies for surviving her successful, albeit suffocating, career"; Mark Waddell's "hilarious contemporary fantasy," Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World; as well as Katharina Volckmer's "outrageous... uproarious" debut, Calls May Be Recorded. Ummm... we're gonna need you to go ahead and spend your Saturday reading. Oh! and I almost forgot, we're also gonna need you to go ahead and read on Sunday, too. Mmk.