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.
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.[8]
Help Wanted, Desperately, follows a thinly fictionalized version of Horn, Alexa Hoffman, through "a roller coaster ride of job interviews" as a college senior.[3] 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.[3] The novel "hilariously chronicle(s)" a series of job interviews that include earthworm breeder, Broadway actress, and deodorant sniffer.[9] The novel was published by Harper Collins in 2004.[10][11][12][13]Booklist wrote that Horn used her "own job-interviewing experiences for comic effect."[14]
Bibliography
Horn, Ariel (2004). Help Wanted, Desperately (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins. p. 341.
ISBN0-06-058958-2.
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"First job hunt leads to first novel", The Item of Millburn and Short Hills, October 21, 2004. Accessed May 27, 2018. "Author Ariel Horn, who grew up in the township and graduated from college two years ago, has fond memories of her formative days at Millburn High School."
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Daily Record (Morristown).