another excellent installment from P&W's Agents and Editors series
by Anne Stameshkin
This time Jofie Ferrari-Adler talks to literary agents Anna Stein, Jim Rutman, Maria Massie, and Peter Steinberg. Here are some tastes: What makes agents want to represent an author? Let us inside your heads a little and talk about what you’re looking at and thinking about when you’re evaluating a piece of fiction. STEIN: It’s really hard to talk about why a piece of writing is good, and moving—even if it’s funny—and what makes us keep thinking about something after we’ve read it. And it’s incredibly subjective. That’s why it’s hard for agents who represent fiction, especially literary fiction, to […]
