There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" -NPR


“A thought-provoking, drily funny critique of capitalism and the systems of self-worth that are built around it.” -TIME, “Must-Read Books of the Year”

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking.

Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected ...