weekend open thread – April 8-9, 2023

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager .
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Book recommendation of the week:   Small Admissions , by Amy Poeppel. A grad student whose life is falling apart takes a job as an admissions officer at a private school and chaos and hilarity ensure. Her writing reminds me a lot of Elinor Lipman, who I love.
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