Re-Twee’d: Joe Meno’s ‘Office Girl’ Tries to Party Like It’s 1999
What does it mean to have an allergic reaction to a novel? And to write a review under obvious duress? Is it credential or disqualification—an instinctual response to be unpacked or a kind of zealotry that disables critical analysis? It’s hard to say which is the case, but Joe Meno’s Office Girl (Akashic Books, 224 pp., $24.95) was more maddening than anything I’ve ever read, and it took me a while to figure out why. Read More
