Today we’re linking to one of my favorite sites ever: the Poets & Writers collection of Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews.
Have you ever read the Paris Review interviews? My friend Sasha Troyan (award-winning author of Angels in the Morning and The Forgotten Island) got me into those years ago. Wonderful stuff—interviews with all the great authors of the twentieth century you’ve ever heard of and all the ones you haven’t yet. I discovered Isak Denisen, Edna O’Brien, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and dozens of others through them.
Now Poets & Writers is doing the same thing, only with the agents and acquisitions editors of the contemporary publishing world.
Read these interviews. Then read them again. Then read them again. Enjoy them for the great conversations they are. Take notes. Follow advice. Look up the books and authors mentioned.
This is the company you hope to join.