Martedì 25 Novembre 2003

The Jackal

Succosa intervista del Guardian a Andrew Wylie, l’agente letterario di Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth e Norman Mailer.

He divides his fellow agents into two categories: the fancy ones who expect their clients to come to them, and the hustlers, like him. Key to the success of his poaching strategy has been to flatter an author by “popping over to Bengal” as he puts it and wooing them in person. Other spry moves include employing an author’s family in his office (he hired a cousin of Amis’s, prior to poaching him), signing authors he has no interest in to impress the ones he does (Benazir Bhutto, prior to poaching Rushdie), and that old chestnut, promising the prospective client a huge advance if they come over to his side - the dark side, as some call it.

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