Ep. 20: Sarah Domet & Agent Michelle Brower

THE GUINEVERES began as a short story, but when the characters wouldn't leave Sarah Domet alone, she saw them through an entire (fantastic) novel. Sarah tells James about her reluctance to admit she wanted to be a writer, what it was like to read from her debut novel at the high school that partially inspired it, and how she juggles writing and parenting. Plus, agent Michelle Brower of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth discusses what an agent does from signing an author to publication to promotion. 

Sarah and James discuss: 

Amy Einhorn

Michelle Brower 

Sewanee Writers' Conference 

Brock Clarke

Hannah Tinti

ONE STORY

John Milton

George Saunders

Aimee Bender

Judy Budnitz

Kelly Link

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

Italo Calvino 

Jorge Luis Borges 

THE WOMAN WHO CUT OFF HER LEG AT THE MAIDSTONE CLUB AND OTHER STORIES by Julia Slavin 

CARNIVORE DIET by Julia Slavin 

THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE by Aimee Bender 

LINCOLN AT THE BARDO by George Saunders 

Kurt Vonnegut 

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino

LIVES OF THE SAINTS 

THE STORY OF AVIS by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 

"Walking Out" by David Quammen 

A FAN'S NOTES by Frederick Exley 

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides 

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 

THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH by Jo Ann Beard 

IN ZANESVILLE by Jo Ann Beard 

Cormac McCarthy 

Michelle & James Discuss: 

ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline

A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara

GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn  

WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED by Clare Beams

THE GUINEVERES by Sarah Domet 

Alexander Chee

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