Episode 180—Can Agents Read?

About this episode

The episode discusses the perception of literary agents' reading abilities and the query process in the publishing industry.

This week we took a look at a substack piece (link below!) that argued that literary agents can’t or don’t read well, as a jumping-off point to discuss the big picture of the query process, the ways we sort through a high volume of submissions, when art becomes boring business emails, and much more. We can read, we promise! The piece in question is here: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/literary-agents-dont-read-how-i-proved

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Hane, Laura Zats

Topics covered

• literary agents
• query process
• submissions
• reading skills
• art vs business

Keywords

• literary agents
• query process
• submissions
• reading
• publishing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Substack

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