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

References

  1. "Ariel Horn Levenson". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Wilkowe, Ellen (5 September 2004). "'Chick lit' gives young women stories about their lives: Romance with a twist". Daily Record (Morristown).
  3. The New York Times, July 6, 2003. Weddings/Celebrations; Ariel Horn, Donny Levenson
  4. Schuessler, Jennifer (June 20, 2009). "Get a Life, Holden Caulfield". The New York Times. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
  5. Jersey Footlights, Michelle Falkenstein, New York Times, February 12, 2006
  6. Lublin, Joann (30 November 2004). "How Well You Handle Not Knowing Answers Is Key in Job Interviews". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  7. Schapiro, Deborah (10 March 2005). "'Schepping naches' from Ariel Horn". New Jersey Jewish News.
  8. "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". New York Times. 30 January 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  9. Netanya Hoffman "Post-college pressure" Jerusalem Post. March 4, 2005
  10. Siegel, Jennifer (29 October 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". The Forward.
  11. Brawarsky, Sandee (10 September 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately (book review)". The Jewish Week.
  12. Leistensnider, Beth (September 2004). "Help Wanted, Desperately". Booklist. 101 (1): 61. Retrieved 8 January 2016 via EBSCO. (subscription required (help)).


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