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Bill Clegg on Literary Agents, Humility, Excellence, Fame, Sales, and the Mysteries of Publishing

Bill Clegg on Literary Agents, Humility, Excellence, Fame, Sales, and the Mysteries of Publishing

Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 381, my conversation with author and literary agent Bill Clegg. It first aired on September 23, 2015.

Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. The author of the novels Did You Ever Have a Family and The End of the Day, he has written for the New York TimesLapham's QuarterlyNew York magazine, The Guardian, and Harper's Bazaar.

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