The story was about a young woman temping in some kind of white-collar office after college there’s an office party and some drunken co-worker co-mingling. We met after I’d run across a short story she’d written in a literary quarterly and asked her to contribute to Feed. She is, actually, a lot like Curtis Sittenfeld herself-yes, Curtis is a she-who I had the pleasure of working with during the height of the dot-com boom (she was writing for the breathless way-new-business mag Fast Company, while I was at the too-smart-for-its-own-good online journal Feed Magazine). Those novels feature a certain kind of narrator: She’s funny and wry, if usually only in voice-over mode she’s self-aware and shy she’s smart and observant. This is not a bad thing, at least, not entirely so. Not because she so resembles Laura Bush but because she sounds like a female character in Curtis Sittenfeld’s other books: the phenomenally successful debut, Prep (2005), or the more mature second novel, The Man of My Dreams (2006).
Her voice will be familiar to some readers. Our heroine’s name is actually Alice Blackwell.
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