![]() ![]() GH: I recently signed up two physics professors. But I also like to read commercial fiction, thrillers, and mainstream literary stuff.īDB: Talk about the nonfiction you represent-science, history, psychology…. I read poetry, which I don’t represent, and some academic nonfiction, university press type stuff, art criticism, histories of banks, things that I would probably not represent as an agent. What I like to read for personal fulfillment is often a book I would never represent, because I couldn’t sell it. GH: What I like to handle is precisely what I think I can sell best. ![]() I am also very interested in well-researched history, although it’s hard to sell if it isn’t by someone who doesn’t have any history credentials.īDB: Is what you like to handle and what sells best one and the same? A finely tuned sense of humor is a wonderful thing, and it enhances any genre of writing. We are awash in bad humor and pathetic comedy, and the bad stuff is really terrible. I am convinced that humor is the hardest thing to do well. ![]() GH: Like everyone, I love something that is truly and deeply funny. So I went to work at a literary agency.īDB: What sort of material do you especially like to handle? Ten years later, it occurred to me that those people had what seemed to be a pretty neat job- they were fairly independent and got to read a lot. ![]() GH: I wrote a few novels, and in the nineties I was briefly represented by two different agents, neither of whom had any luck with my rather precious, self-indulgent work. Gary is looking for history, science, true crime, pop culture, psychology, business, military and some literary fiction. His librettos for composer Evan Hause’s Defenestration Trilogy earned praise from Newsday, Opera News and the New York Press, and his musical comedies (he has written several in collaboration with Gary Miles, including The Feng Shui Assassin and American Eyeball) were described by The Onion as “strangely funny.” Originally from Texas, he has lived in New York City for a decade and a half. Upon graduating, he returned to the nightclubs as a gigging musician the Village Voice called his first album a “masterpiece.” He is a published poet and columnist. The following is an interview I did earlier this year with NYC literary agent Gary Heidt for The ASJA Monthly.įinePrint Literary Management agent, Gary Heidt, was a John Jay Scholar at Columbia University and General Manager at WKCR-FM. ![]()
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