tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post793665152429790938..comments2024-03-25T20:40:44.806-04:00Comments on Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID: Feeling Anxious?Writer, Rejectedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241982229214057815noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-56155454489089021802008-04-24T08:53:00.000-04:002008-04-24T08:53:00.000-04:00I'm feeling quite anxious and I have a request for...I'm feeling quite anxious and I have a request for you, WR.<BR/><BR/>Been a while since anyone has had any good agent gossip but some time back there was a discussion about how no agents today were like Binky Urban or The Jackal Andrew Wylie or even tried to be like them. Cynic that I am, I (alas) have to agree with that sentiment. I feel that "serious" writers are basically SOL right now.<BR/><BR/>And when I see stuff like the newest agent at <A HREF="http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=1037" REL="nofollow">Lippincott, Massie, McQuilkin</A> who is responsible for "The Handjob Handbook: A Work of Non-Friction " (sorry) or the agent at Levine Greenberg who herself is writing some kind of "diarrhea cookbook" (sorry) or the young agent whose "cutting-edge" interests includes a new dictionary for descriptions of the sex act (sorry), well I get more than anxious.<BR/><BR/>So if you're soliciting another Ask LROD, I would like to know: who are the best serious literary agents out there now (under 65, please, but preferably under 50)? Any up-and-comers worthy of note, agents who wouldn't be caught dead peddling the above tomes? Or are all agents (especially the young ones) basically incompetent, rude idiots now, too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-65883872731755311302008-04-22T11:56:00.000-04:002008-04-22T11:56:00.000-04:00Acknowledgments:This book couldn't have been writt...Acknowledgments:<BR/><BR/>This book couldn't have been written without the help of Pepto, Prilosec, my psychotherapist, and of course Xanax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com