Peck & Peck

Peck & Peck is the story of a young man whose life is turned upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck.

It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, and Batter Gray, a recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants—an "ear" for poetry—is worried about his future. While his friends have jobs, he is folding T-shirts at the Gap.

When Batter gets a job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the Peck brothers—twins and enemies—as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose mission is to find originality and reward creativity.

At Peck & Peck, "good" isn't good enough, "interesting" doesn't cut it, plagiarists aren't tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom.