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Coming Soon: “Lines of Work”
The Spring edition of Lapham's Quarterly is a hardworking magazine, flexing its muscles to bring you history's greatest writing from the field and cubicle. In the issue, Gloria Steinem works the coat check at the Playboy Club, David Mamet reminds his sales staff to always be closing, Geoffrey Chaucer struggles with alchemy, Theodor Adorno doesn't take up a hobby, Herman Melville carves up a sperm whale, and Woody Guthrie holds the union line.
The issue also includes charts and graphs of famous hirings and firings, the daily working schedules of famous writers, infamous cases of sexual harassment, and the benefits and hazards of living in a company town. Our essays include Donovan Hohn on the romance of tools, Alain de Botton on our desire to find purpose in our jobs, and an excerpt from Philip Connors’ upcoming book Fire Season, on the tedious work of fire lookouts in rural New Mexico.
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Image: Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA, 1942. From The Library of Congress Flickr.
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