The latest in Jofie Ferrari-Adler’s series of interviews for Poets & Writers is with literary agent Georges Borchardt. Over a fifty-year career he’s represented authors ranging from Tennessee Williams, Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, T. C. Boyle, Robert Coover, David Guterson, Anne Applebaum, Stanley Crouch yet is deemed a “hidden gem” in the publishing industry for being “cherished by their colleagues and peers but barely known outside of the business.” On why his background is different from others in publishing: “most literary agents in America have English as their native language. But I started out without knowing the language. I grew […]
