Penn Grads Penning Things: Octopus Summer

Penn Grad Malcolm Dorson (C'04) is following in the footsteps of underlings-turned-authors Lauren Weisberger and Lizzie Grubman—but this time covering the Wall Street beat after getting booted from Deutsche Bank back in 2009:

Given the similarities between Dorson and his protagonist Callum Littlefield (boarding school prepster, Ivy Leaguer, Wall Street whiz), we'd expect this was a "screw you, Deutsche" roman à clef, but the author has only denied any truth behind his pages.

Really? The striking real-life similarities only remind us of Weisberger's Miranda Priestly/Anna Wintour conundrum.

Perhaps even more surprising, however, this finance guy is not a Whartonite. Maybe that's why the book is actually being touted as "the beach read of 2010" by the very literary-minded site, Guest of a Guest.

We'll let you know when if we read it. No word yet on whether the "Ivy League university" in the book's description is Penn.