In the New York Times By the Book  interview, Maria Semple, author of  Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” mentions Barbara Trapido’s “Brother of the More Famous Jack” –  out of print but miraculously in my library system.

Her other go-to writers are favorites of mine too (click on the highlighted titles for my reviews):

• Lorrie Moore – A Gate at the Stairs 
• Alice Munro – Dear Life 
• Yasmina Reza – author of the play “Art.”  I remember seeing it, starring Alan Alda, years ago at Ford Theater; available in audio – might be worth listening; more recently she wrote “God of Carnage.”
• Penelope Lively – How It All Began 
• Edward St. Aubyn – The Patrick Melrose novels – 5 part series; start with “Never Mind.”
• Michael Frayn – Skios  
• Brady Udall – The Lonely Polygamist  

Books to Find:

• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• Glaciers by Alexis Smith
• Tenth of December by George Saunders
• All That Is by James Salter

Office Girl is on that list, but after starting it on my Kindle, I decided it was one of those books “I was supposed to like, but didn’t,” and in Semple’s words – I bailed halfway through it.