Fresh off leaving grad school in London, 23-year-old Joanna Rakoff returns to the U.S. and stumbles into a job as an assistant at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies. She gets the job despite not really knowing anything about the agency, the publishing industry, or even how to type. Hey, it was the ’90s. Freshly installed at her desk, Joanna struggles to relate to her boss, who barks instructions before retreating behind the closed door of her office to make phone calls and smoke […]