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Nominated for a National Book Award in 1966, Sheed's thoughtful workplace satire transfers that truism about the most vicious infighting being over the lowest stakes, from academia to the drab Manhattan offices of The Outsider, a small fortnightly magazine with large pretensions. Sleek, donnish chief editor Gilbert Twining presides over a cadre of disaffected staff who perpetually maneuver and connive in pursuit of tiny increments of power and status...Log In or Sign Up to Read More