Olivie Blake’s darkly comedic campus novel “Girl Dinner” explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia, with a light side of cannibalism.
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.
In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.