Among the Literati XLII

Former Fast Company contributor and Iowa Writer's Workshop grad Curtis Sittenfeld just sold her first novel. The book's titled Cheer, and Publishers Lunch describes it as a "humorously observant and uncannily realistic story of a fourteen-year-old girl who chooses to attend a prestigious East coast boarding school and soon realizes how different from her romantic illusions the reality of her new home is." The book is slated to be published by Random House. Congratulations, Curtis!