Thank you for your submission: Shirley Jackson's story about a literary agency

Reading the (somewhat) long story by Shirley Jackson, Elizabeth, in her (only) story collection, "The Lottery and other Stories" (Modern Library ed.), not finished yet but it strikes me as an interesting melange: about a single 30ish New York woman working in a literary agency as the "fiction department," the head agent, Robbie, runs the place and it's under his name, Robert Stax, and there's only one other employee, a newly hired, sexy secretary, Daphne. So far whole story taking place in one morning, a rainy, dreary day, Elizabeth (last name, Style - clever, too clever by half?) goes to work, through her daily routine, stops by coffee shop (relic of 40s Manhattan there no more) where counterboy tells her he's finished his play but sent it to another agency (she's hurt by this), then to work - over the course of the first half of the story we realize that the agency not only is shabby and very unsuccessful but that it's really just a sham - they write enthusiastic letters to all who submit mss. and then offer, for a fee, to provide editing service to make the (mostly horrible) material suitable for submission to an editor. Also we gradually learn that Elizabeth and Robbie are lovers, but with evidently very little commitment or passion on either part. This story is in part an homage to many detective/crime novels - the agency setting, the guy in charge with his loyal and devoted girl Friday - but transposed to a literary agency and the focus on the woman: much more of a Manhattan story, more a story of a lonely careerist, and more of a credible, realistic piece that most detective stories, which are, for the most part, entertaining but on the far verge of reality. I have hopes for the story but have also noticed from the others in the collection that Jackson can be slow to pull the trigger on her plots - things rarely reach a climax or a crisis point, and the resolutions tend to be ambiguous at best, often just unresolved.