Ariel Horn
Ariel Horn Levenson is an American novelist and teacher.[1] She is known for turning her job-finding difficulties as a new college graduate into a humorous novel: Help Wanted, Desperately.
Biography
Horn grew up in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian.[2] She studied for a Master of Arts degree in English at New York University.[3] Horn has taught English at the Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, and at a public charter school in upper Manhattan.[4] Horn’s sister, Dara Horn is also a novelist.[5]
Help Wanted, Desperately
In the spring of 2002 Horn was in her senior year at the University of Pennsylvania and was being interviewed for an entry-level job with a New York management consulting firm.[6]
Help Wanted, Desperately, follows a thinly fictionalized version of Horn, Alexa Hoffman, through "a roller coaster ride of job interviews" as a college senior.[2] Her plan is to avoid going home to Short Hills, New Jersey after graduation at any cost. Her Plan B if all else fails is to go teach English on the Pacific island of Majuro.[2] The novel "hilariously chronicle(s)" a series of job interviews that include earthworm breeder, Broadway actress, and deodorant sniffer.[7] The novel was published by Harper Collins in 2004.[8][9][10][11] Booklist wrote that Horn used her "own job-interviewing experiences for comic effect."[12]
Bibliography
- Horn, Ariel (2004). Help Wanted, Desperately (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins. p. 341. ISBN 0-06-058958-2.
References
- ↑ "Ariel Horn Levenson". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- 1 2 3 Wilkowe, Ellen (5 September 2004). "'Chick lit' gives young women stories about their lives: Romance with a twist". Daily Record (Morristown).
- ↑ The New York Times, July 6, 2003. Weddings/Celebrations; Ariel Horn, Donny Levenson
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (June 20, 2009). "Get a Life, Holden Caulfield". The New York Times. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ↑ Jersey Footlights, Michelle Falkenstein, New York Times, February 12, 2006
- ↑ Lublin, Joann (30 November 2004). "How Well You Handle Not Knowing Answers Is Key in Job Interviews". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ↑ Schapiro, Deborah (10 March 2005). "'Schepping naches' from Ariel Horn". New Jersey Jewish News.
- ↑ "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". New York Times. 30 January 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ↑ Netanya Hoffman "Post-college pressure" Jerusalem Post. March 4, 2005
- ↑ Siegel, Jennifer (29 October 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". The Forward.
- ↑ Brawarsky, Sandee (10 September 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". The Jewish Week.
- ↑ Leistensnider, Beth (September 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately". Booklist. 101 (1): 61. Retrieved 8 January 2016 – via EBSCO. (subscription required (help)).