Bill Clegg on Writing, Modern Publishing, and Being a Literary Agent

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 381, my conversation with Bill Clegg, esteemed literary agent and author of several books, including the debut novel Did You Ever Have a Family? (Scout Books).

Air date: September 23, 2015.

Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days, and another novel called The End of the Day. He has written for the New York Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, New York magazine, The Guardian, and Harper’s Ba...