Layoff Lit

Layoff Lit
Literature suited to leaner economic times.

Noting the timeliness of George Clooney’s latest film, “Up in the Air,” The Times’s Motoko Rich commented:

Now several writers and their publishers are hoping to catch the same wave with a cluster of forthcoming memoirs and novels that describe the fallout of losing a job, losing a house or losing an investment account.
Call it layoff lit. Next month will bring “The Bag Lady Papers,” a memoir by Alexandra Penney, the former editor in chief of Self magazine, who said she had lost all her savings to Bernard L. Madoff. In May Dominique Browning, the former editor of House & Garden, has a memoir, “Slow Love: How I Got Kicked Off the Fast Track, Put My Pajamas On for a Year & Found Happiness.”


Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles. 2014.

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