5 December 2022
I thought I'd come to the wrong office: The entrance foyer to the publishing company was the color of a hospital waiting room in a second-tier city. As I slid my resume under the pane of glass at the front desk-like the ones ubiquitous then in Chinese restaurants, when crime in New York City was off the charts-I felt more like a heroine in a noir novel than an aspiring member of the literati.
