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Are Literary Agents turning into Hustlers?'

12 August 2002

Are Literary Agents turning into Hustlers?'

'The literary agent is becoming a thing of the past. The aesthete in a dust-choked office, scanning a slush pile of unsolicited submissions for buried genius, has given way to the Armani-suited hustler who is more likely to be negotiating his authors on to television game shows than into any bookshop ... 'The literary agent used to be literature's first line of defence. That line has been broken. The future could be grim.'

Danuta Kean, writing in the Daily Mail