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Matt McGowan of Frances Goldin Literary Agency
I write literary fiction and have completed four novels and one hundred pages of a memoir with a proposal. I’ve published extensively in literary ...
DeLillo Wins Inaugural Library of Congress Prize
Last week, the first annual Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction was awarded to Don DeLillo, the author of sixteen novels, including White ...
Jenni Ferrari-Adler of Brick House Literary Agents
Do agents really read synopses? Isn’t a ten-page sample more useful? For me, fiction synopses that detail every step of the plot are hard to read and ...
Claire Messud Educates Interviewer on Literature, HBO to Adapt Olive Kitteridge, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff GalleyCat reveals how many sold books land authors on the self-published bestseller list; HBO intends to adapt Elizabeth Strout's ...
Kurt Vonnegut's Letter to John F. Kennedy, Ben Percy On Werewolves, and more
Melissa Faliveno Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing ...
Sandra Beasley's Plagiarist, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Nick Flynn shares a poem composed the day of the Boston Marathon bombing; film director Steven Soderbergh is penning a crime ...
Deadline Approaches for Black Balloon Book Prize
Submissions are currently open for Black Balloon Publishing’s inaugural Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, an award of $5,000 and a book deal with Black ...
Authors Name Their Favorite Children's Books, Report From Selected Shorts, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff New York's Hudson Valley is a great place for independent bookstores; Charles Simic discusses decades of reading his poetry in ...
David Rhodes
The author, whose fourth novel, Jewelweed, is being published this month by Milkweed Editions, answered questions from the audience following a ...