Happy Monday Cafe-ers. This week at Cafe, NYT reporter Steven Greenhouse joins us at Table for One to talk about his new book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. In his opening post, featured below, he provides a litany of disgraceful corporate behavior, like the time RadioShack laid off 400 workers in Fort Worth, Texas, via email: "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated." The discussion is ongoing all week, a post a day, so stay tuned.

Plus-- in honor of Summer, the beach, Fourth of July, or a late homage to Summer Solstice (pick your preference)-- we'll be featuring staff summer reading pics all week, 2 staffers a day. Dying to know what Josh Marshall reads when he stops blogging at 4:00 a.m.? Me too. Feel free to jump into the comment threads with your own summer choices.