Don't Step into My Office

David Fishkind was born in Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Believer, New York Tyrant, Forever Magazine, and The Paris Review. Don't Step into My Office is his first novel.

“Once this gets its hooks into the reader, it doesn’t let go.”—Publishers Weekly“This astute debut is a propulsive story about complicity, what we remember, and what we try to forget.”—Playboy Magazine“A totally strange, surreal, compelling and very weird book that is dense with plot but would be just as good if nothing at all happened and we just followed Jacob around as he putzed through the city. It’s also unexpectedly delightful for a book with so many references to doing ketamine.”—Matthew Schnipper, Gothamist "Suspenseful, twisty, and laceratingly witty Don’t Step into My Office is a revelation. We need more mysteries like this one and more writers like Fishkind."—Junot Díaz, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"Fishkind has written a delicious paradox: a thriller whose pages you want to flip through in a frenzy with prose so precise you want to savor every sentence."—Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love“A wicked literary opera, complete with blood and guts, that plays out like a shredded film and stitches itself back together, blissfully, only when the curtain falls. Don’t Step into My Office is a striking, dangerous debut.”—Frederick Barthelme"Apparently, in French, they have a phrase that's like 'this has a certain Je m’en foutisme,' to mean where an artist has no prospects or responsibilities and their work attains the transcendental I-don't-give-a-fuck quality that everyone else strives for. Don't Step into My Office just has that magic thing. It's really funny. I love this book."—Gabriel Smith, author of BRAT“This noirishly divine ‘office’ is meticulously crafted, luminously droll, hyper-lucid, and volcanically comic. Security and HR have been told to stand down as readers breathlessly rush in.”—Bruce Wagner