Lynn Nesbit
Veteran Literary Agent Lynn Nesbit to Poets & Writers: "I Miss the Fun"
Lynn Nesbit, the famed literary agent who has represented Tom Wolfe, Donald Barthelme, Jimmy Carter, Michael Crichton, and countless other marquee names, gives a long interview in this month's issue of Poets & Writers.
Lots of highlights in there, but perhaps most striking is the overpowering sense that Things Used to Be Better:
"I say to [former Knopf and New Yorker editor] Bob Gottlieb, who's still a very close personal friend, 'You couldn't stand to be in publishing today.' And he says, 'I know.' It is very corporatized. We all began to think about that in those days. What was going to happen? These big conglomerates, synergy, all that. People began to worry about it..."
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Lynn Nesbit
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