Gotham: Helen Phillips on The Beautiful Bureaucrat

Saturday, October 3, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterGotham series host Rob Spillman talks with Brooklyn’s own Helen Phillips, whose debut novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat has been widely praised, including by the New York Times Book Review, which called it “a riveting, drolly surreal debut novel.” Kakfaesque, comic, and moving, Phillips’s novel captures modern urban existentialism like few can. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed story collection And Ye