Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips

14 world-famous writers & creative minds have joined together in this epic collaboration — made possible through Xerox technology. Together they tell the multi-lensed, multi-faceted & ever-surprising story of the modern workplace.

The book is the culmination of Xerox’s (NYSE:XRX) Project: SET THE PAGE FREE™, in collaboration with the 92nd Street Y. Fourteen award-winning international writers & creative talents each contributed their views & memories of work & working. The free eBook can be downloaded at www.SetThePageFree.com.

92nd Street Y forges deep connections between readers & writers all over the world through their global literacy outreach programs, digital festivals, online seminars & livestream events

The contributing authors & creative talents include:

Jonathan Ames, author, screenwriter, You Were Never Really Here, Bored to Death

Lee Child, author, Jack Reacher thriller series

Billy Collins, poet, The Rain in Portugal, Aimless Love

Jonathan Coulton, singer-songwriter, Solid State, Smoking Monkey

Sloane Crosley, author, essayist, The Clasp, I Was Told There’d be Cake

Joshua Ferris, author, The Dinner Party & Other Stories, Then We Came to the End

Jonathan Safran Foer, author, Here I Am, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Roxane Gay, author, Hunger, Bad Feminist

Chip Kidd, award-winning graphic designer

Valeria Luiselli, author, Tell Me How it Ends, The Story of My Teeth

Alain Mabanckou, author, Black Moses, Broken Glass

Aimee Mann, singer-songwriter, Mental Illness, Save Me

Joyce Carol Oates, author, A Book of American Martyrs, We Were the Mulvaneys

Gary Shteyngart, author, Little Failure: A Memoir, Super Sad: True Love Story

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Bernard Schwartz was Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa, & is the author of forty books on the law & the history of the Supreme Court.