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Not Safe For Work: Author of the viral essay 'My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer'

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You know, the kind of uncle who spends a little too much time with the young women and gives goodbye kisses that land too close to the mouth. Only after the fact did it occur to me to wonder why a male executive would ever think it appropriate to give a female employee a goodbye kiss at the end of the work day, regardless of where on the face his lips landed.

When someone senior tells you how pretty you look, you smile and thank him – and make a mental note never to wear that dress alone with him again. I was a teeny tiny bit disappointed with the open ending but hopefully it means that there may be more to come as I would love to read more about these characters and their lives. Opening sentence: The thing about Los Angeles is that it’s awful and I hate it, but when I’m there, nowhere else exists, and I can’t imagine leaving. She gets a job in an agency through family connections – her mother is a well known, ball-bustin’ lawyer.Here, the former Hollywood assistant and current director of book-to-film development at a literary agency reflects on the horrifying behaviour she witnessed as a twentysomething – and how little has actually changed in the five years since the Harvey Weinstein scandal. I thought the project had a lot of promise and wanted to see if there was anything I could do to push it forward. To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes:- Pull all-nighters – Lean on your powerful mother’s contacts – Stay in shape at cult-like fitness classes – Secretly wear your boss’s fitbit to improve his stepcount – and his temper. Not Safe for Work is definitely one of the harder-hitting books I’ve read in recent times, but that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it. But the truth is that I feel most comfortable and empowered on the page, expressing myself at a safe distance and after extended reflection.

Isabel Kaplan’s forthcoming debut novel, Not Safe For Work, follows an ambitious young woman trying to succeed in the entertainment industry without selling her soul. When rumours of an assault start to circle the office, and your close friend confesses her own disturbing experience, you know there is plenty to gain from staying silent. If I thank him for his congratulations and leave it at that, am I demonstrating complicity, failing to practice what I preach? I hadn’t spoken to him in years; he knew me when I was an assistant, and he was a very important executive.A book that leaves you pondering and gives great social commentary on the glass ceiling that very much still exists between women and equality in both the workplace and life, is always an excellent read. I don’t know how the daughter (I keep saying daughter as she was unnamed in the book) kept her patience and was mostly able to stay polite and courteous as I think I would have cut ties very early on. The nuances of our lead character’s co-dependent, majoritively toxic, mother-daughter relationship are also looked at in depth and reveal how much this affects all areas of both of their lives.

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