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Rumpus Book ClubThird Generation Writer Quits Writing to Become an Agent
Molly Jong-Fast, daughter of Erica Jong and granddaughter of Howard Fast has quit writing to become a literary agent. She wants to sell “celebrity-driven” books and bring in “‘really smart’ writers to help shape those public figures’ lives into books.” As for the literary part of being a literary agent:
“I’m trying not to do too much literary stuff–which is not to say I’m not taking smart things, but there’s a certain type of pretentious novel that I just hate, that I’d spent most of my career trying to write away from. . . . I want to represent books that will actually reach people.”
She still owes one more book on her contract, though her editor was let go during last month’s purge. Mark Pritchard writes, “I’ll bet that’s going to be one fantastic book — composed by a writer who doesn’t want to be a writer anymore, and edited by whomever, it sounds like the equivalent of a Hollywood movie dumped in a few theaters during the slowest week of the year for a tax write-off.” (via Too Beautiful)
June 15th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
I appreciate the previous cool post. It is mega refreshing.