Ferris' "Then We Came To The End" Wins B&N New Writers Award
February 28, 2008
Joshua Ferris was named a winner in Barnes & Noble's 15th Annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards. " His book Then We Came To The End is a novel about a Chicago ad agency and the tumultuous 1990's. Our resident writer Todd Lazarski wrote this short piece about the book for an upcoming 800-CEO-READ project: The next generation of the business novel, Ferris' hilarious critique of modern office life and the world of marketing acts almost as the written word companion to "Office Space" or "The Office.
Joshua Ferris was named a winner in Barnes & Noble's 15th Annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards."
His book Then We Came To The End is a novel about a Chicago ad agency and the tumultuous 1990's. Our resident writer Todd Lazarski wrote this short piece about the book for an upcoming 800-CEO-READ project:
The next generation of the business novel, Ferris' hilarious critique of modern office life and the world of marketing acts almost as the written word companion to "Office Space" or "The Office." Addictively funny, it also belongs in the same vein of rumbling satire employed by [John Kennedy] Toole. Ferris sheds light on all of our oft-overlooked, inter-office mannerisms, inanities, and silly drama. Throughout the prose paints a portrait that, while obviously entertaining, is also sharply revealing about that 40-hour-a-week, alternative universe known as "work."
We mention it here, because some times it helps to see the business world through a different lens with someone else describing the scene we see every day.