LaserWriter II

As much as I liked The War for Gloria (see above), when I finished it I needed an antidote, and this sweet little book was the perfect prescription. When I say that it's a novel about an Apple repair shop in Manhattan in the 1990s, I mean that is exactly what it is about. No love story, no grand metaphors or broad social commentary. But like Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Shopsin's wonderful memoir about her family's Greenwich Village diner, it's a funny, heartening portrait of a small business that, while it lasts, operates as a refuge both for honest, creative work and for a city's misfits. It may make you pine for the lost art of printer repair.