The transcriptionist A Novel
No one can find it. That's the first thing. The Recording Room is on the eleventh floor, at the end of a rat-hued hallway that some workers at the newspaper have never seen; they give up on the ancient elevator, which makes only local stops with loud creaks of protest. Like New Yorkers who refuse to...
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| Language: | English |
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2014.
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| Summary: | No one can find it. That's the first thing. The Recording Room is on the eleventh floor, at the end of a rat-hued hallway that some workers at the newspaper have never seen; they give up on the ancient elevator, which makes only local stops with loud creaks of protest. Like New Yorkers who refuse to venture above Fourteenth Street, there are newspaper workers who refuse to go above the fourth floor for fear of being lost forever if they leave the well-lit newsroom for dark floors unknown. In this room you'll find Lena. She works as a transcriptionist for the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper. There once were many transcriptionists at the Record, but new technology and the ease of communication has put most of them out of work, so now Lena sits alone in a room on the building's eleventh floor, far away from the hum of the newsroom that is the heart of the paper. Still, it is an important job -- vital, really -- a vein that connects the organs of the... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Format: | Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 616 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1113 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
| ISBN: | 9781616203962 |
| Author Notes: | Amy Rowland is the author of two novels. The Transcriptionist received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Norman Mailer Center, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New York Times , the Southern Review , the Iowa Review , Literary Hub , New Letters , and other publications. A former editor at the New York Times Book Review , she is currently a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at Princeton University and the School of the New York Times. |
