Knox Burger was my first agent. I was twenty-five when I first met him, holding down the only actual "job" I ever had, as a fairly inept press agent for United Artists, where I had succeeded another amateur flak named Jonathan Demme. I had written a novella called Tex X, about a hip black sheriff in the Old West. It was the first piece of fiction I had ever written, and had no idea what to do with it when another press agent--Jimmy O'Neill-- told me I should send it to his pal Knox Burger, a book editor who had just started a literary agency in a basement office in Greenwich Village. Knox had discovered Vonnegut, he had mentored John D. MacDonald and Malcolm Braly--it all sounded terribly romantic to me and, like I said, I was...
- 1/13/2010
- by Andrew Bergman
- Huffington Post
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