"Do the Windows Open?" is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers of "The New Yorker" laughing out loud for years. The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing cle[...]
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. "The Unprofessionals, " her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection "Do the Windows Open?, " is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd[...]