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Literature Created Behind the Scene
My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow film criticism of his client Vernon Young. An Englishman, Young will always be memorable for me for informing Americans who too quickly called him by his first name that "My good friends call me Mr. Young. Won't you do likewise." The post Literature Created Behind t…
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