Adalya Nash Hussein
Office Romance
Katrine owned Dining Table, and was charismatic but functionally incapable of working independently. Instead she relied on her employees, mainly Yana, to keep her on task.
'Katrine, you have a client coming in 5 minutes!'
'Katrine, you must call Mike Williams!'
'Katrine, put away your phone!'
'It is simple,' Yana told me on my first day. 'Katrine manages business, I manage Katrine.'
By the Guest Editor: What I'm Reading
This edition of The Circular was guest-edited by Adalya Nash Hussein. To close, we'd like to share this piece she wrote for Meanjin on a lifetime of being a book person, how her relationship with books has shifted over the years, and the performative aspects of reading.