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Busybodies

In a sunny economy, workers joke about frittering away the hours during traditional slow times, like January, confident that things will eventually pick up. Looking busy when you’re not in order to fool the boss can be something of an art form.

But now, when business is verrry slow and the possibility of layoffs icily real, looking busy is no joke. In retail and real estate, restaurants and law offices, many workers are working hard to look necessary — even when they don’t have all that much to do. —Jan Hoffman, " Working Hard to Look Busy," NYT

Meowrr?

xoxo,
Maxine

Key party

On Amazon...key phrases in Personal Days...and another book with a very appealing title...

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*I deleted one spoilerish phrase.

Here's to Future 'Days'

The Institute for the Future of the Book's Dan Visel:

Ed Park’s Personal Days is a beguiling and completely unexpected combination of Walser’s aggressive modesty and Raymond Roussel’s poetic stratagems. I can’t think of a first novel that I liked more this year.

—Ready Steady Book

Meow!

—From Maxine

I'll be at the, ummm, inauguration, yeah...

“I think there are going to be canceled meetings that day because so many people are going to be away,” said Mr. Reed, who lives in Harlem.

—"At the Office, Taking a Break for the Oath of Office," Fernanda Santos, NYT