"'No figure,' she writes, 'has been more significant, and yet more invisible' in the 'ecosystem' of contemporary American fiction, and her shrewd, scholarly, and generous work shows why.” Read the full review of @lbmcgrath.bsky.social's Middlemen in @nybooks.com:
With their blend of taste and market savvy, literary agents have been both invisible and necessary in contemporary American fiction.
Imagine if Tech or Finance allowed their story to be told in the mainstream press almost exclusively by people who hated them. This is what Education has chosen, in large part because it is saboteurs from Finance and Tech who have been doing the choosing.
