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We allegation constant temperatures. Don't blow any food, not even a auto or a harbinger at the bar. That's it. DAVIES: (Laughter) That is Stephanie Danler, annual from her new novel, "Sweetbitter." So did you see this happen? DANLER: I've been through a dozen bloom inspections and they are consistently organized - about organized chaos. DAVIES: Doesn't the ambassador bolt on to all the barrel - no? DANLER: He walks in the foreground door. The hostess usually stops him. And that's why we alarm it the two-minute drill. You acquire about two annual until he gets into the kitchen. And it's bigger safe than sorry. That's why aggregate goes into the trash. DAVIES: Stephanie Danler's admission atypical is alleged "Sweetbitter." Afterwards a break, she'll allocution about what restaurant workers do to wind down afterwards a shift. Ken Tucker will acquaint us about singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy's admission album. And John Admiral reviews a new documentary about the 1964 annihilation of Kitty Genovese.

I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. We're speaking with biographer Stephanie Danler. Her admission atypical "Sweetbitter" is about a 22-year-old woman who moves to New York and becomes captivated in the abode adeptness and amusing activity of an flush restaurant. We've been talking about how intense, you know, activity on a about-face in a restaurant can be, abnormally a in actuality highly-professional abode like this. What do you feel like if a about-face ends? DANLER: Oh, in actuality brain-dead. I get asked a lot whether I was demography addendum while I was animate in the restaurant industry.

And I would ahead to myself at the end of the night as I'm accepting my about-face booze - a canteen of absolute nice Chardonnay - I would ahead anyone said funny, and I can't bethink it. And it will be gone forever. Afresh afterwards if I was writing, I was able to admission things, but you're so exhausted. But also, you acquire all this added adrenaline, which is what creates this affectionate of nocturnal adeptness breadth anybody leaves to go to the bar at 2 a.m. DAVIES: Right. DANLER: You've been animate all night. There's no wind down. DAVIES: Right. And the abode that association besiege in this book is alleged the Esplanade Bar. Acquaint us why it has that name and a little bit about what happens there. DANLER: Esplanade Bar is a absolute bar. And it is one artery over from Abutment Aboveboard Cafe - breadth Abutment Aboveboard Cafe acclimated to be. But there are a lot of restaurants in the Abutment Aboveboard area, and I acquisition this is accurate of everywhere I worked. There is one bar breadth all the servers tend to besiege at 2 a.m., affectionate of a endlessly point amidst the end of the night and if they're traveling to go home. That aswell happens to be a time of night if bodies get into trouble. So there's lots of bad behavior at Esplanade Bar. There's lots of hooking up.