Literary agent Andrew Wylie started the day’s conferences at the Frankfurt Book Fair with brief remarks before a modest, press-heavy audience in FBF’s “Business Club.” The personal part of his address, reflecting on recent travels with his wife, was “about seeing things differently and seeing different things.” His point was that the world itself looked more similar as he traveled far and wide, but “what differed was the behavior and reactions of those we encountered,” with people expressing “a different view of the similar rather than a similar view of different things.” In publishing terms, his international roster of authors […]
