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In 2013 we loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot, terrific characters and effortless recreation of the Jazz Age. Well, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period is the late 1950s. She brings the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world to life through the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like a dream: Cliff Nelson, a Columbia dropout who plans to be the next Hemingway and also happens to be the son of a premier editor at Bonwright; Eden Katz, who moved from Indiana to be a secretary at a publishing house but has ambitions of becoming an editor; and Miles Tillman, a black man who works as a bicycle messenger for Eden's publisher but has literary hopes of his own.
The novel opens in 1958, immediately depositing readers in a convincing version of the bohemian Village: blacks and whites intermingle at drunken parties, Beat poets perform in smoke-filled cafés, and jazz blares away. It's no surprise to Cliff that graduates would come from all over the country to surround themselves with this kind of creative energy: 'They arrived in New York on Greyhounds from all over America with an air of great optimism about them, young single people willing to live in terrible apartments and work for peanuts so long as Manhattan dazzled them with her bright lights and taxi-horn siren song.'
This classy, well-plotted follow-up will win Rindell even more fans and tide us all over until the film version of ''The Other Typist'' – produced by and starring Keira Knightley – appears.
Further reading suggestion: [[Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer]] has a similarly sparkling 1950s New York setting, while [[My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff]], though it takes place some decades later, gives an insider view of working in the literary world. You might also enjoy [[The Doll House by Fiona Davis]].
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