I’m a sucker for books about plucky young women trying to make it in New York and in that sub-genre Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything is a must-read. Jaffe follows a group of women in the early 1950s who are all at the start of their professional careers and working at a second-rate publishing company in Manhattan. Though all around the same age the ladies are at vastly different stages of their lives, with differing goals and visions of success. Some want to make […]