Skip to main content Currently Reading Office novels explored the strange reality of our working lives. Now they make us nostalgic for our cubicles. Stuart Miller, The Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Office novels have evolved alongside workplace culture.Little, Brown; Jonathan Cape; Simon and Schuster "I miss boring meetings," John Kenney said. The author of two workplace novels - "Truth in Advertising" and "Talk to Me" - and "Love Poems for the Office," Kenney doesn't miss being bored. "I miss being in a room with other people." Zoom meetings are functional, Kenney said, but lack spontaneity and stymie meandering conversations. "What makes work interesting is the serendipitous spark that could come when you're chatting and the other person said something and then you get an idea," he said. "Serendipity is hard to capture on Zoom."