Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
McGrath devotes a whole chapter to lunch. This may not be enough. As dolphins bond through synchronized swimming, agents and editors dine out in a ritualized exchange of gossip that sustains, somehow, entire careers ... Conjure[s] a wheezing twine factory—the relic of a bygone era, marred with unsightly retrofits from which a good yarn may still occasionally emerge.
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Thorough, diverting ... Through profiles of famous literary agents and their clients, Middlemen, an invaluable work of literary analysis, goes behind the scenes in the American publishing industry.
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Persuasive ... A fresh, well-researched debut.
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