\u003cdiv\u003eEdward Hopper\u0026#8217;s painting \"Office at Night\" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on \u0026#147;the facts\u0026#8221; of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.\u003c/div\u003e