The Second Most Dangerous Job in America
By Steve Himmer
2012
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
57
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The Second Most Dangerous Job In America chronicles a young man’s long, dark nights of the soul working graveyard shift in a convenience store, featuring minor celebrities, bargain brand cigarettes, and cup after cup of bad coffee. It's a microcosmic meditation on work, self, and ambition set against a comic backdrop of mid-1990s fatalism, forthcoming as an ebook exclusive from Atticus Books in their new “Atticus Shorts” series.
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Author
Steve Himmer
Author · 5 books
Steve Himmer is the author of the novels The Bee-Loud Glade, Fram, and Scratch (coming 2016). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Millions, Ploughshares online, Post Road, Los Angeles Review, Hobart, and other anthologies and journals. He edits the webjournal Necessary Fiction teaches at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
