The Writer and the Literary Agent: A Conversation
Please join us for a conversation about publishing and the role of the literary agent, featuring Adrienne Celt and Emma Patterson. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library on the Uptown Campus, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown campus.Adrienne Celt is the author of three novels: End of the World House, which was named a most-anticipated title by Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, and more; Invitation to a Bonfire, which was a 2018 Indie Next Pick and an Amazon Book of the Month; and The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction. Also a cartoonist, she published a book of comics entitled Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary with New Michigan Press in 2016. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, the 2016 O'Henry Prize Stories, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva, TriQuarterly, Strange Horizons, The Greensboro Review, and many other places.Emma Patterson is a literary agent at Brandt & Hochman, where she has been since 2013. She represents fiction ranging from dark, voice-driven literary novels to historical and upmarket fiction to feminist fiction with a speculative bent; narrative non-fiction that includes memoir, investigative journalism, and history; and select children's titles. Her authors are NYT bestsellers as well as finalists or winners of awards such as the Pulitzer, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, PEN Awards, O. Henry Awards, and others. She represents emerging voices, established writers, and ongoing series. She has a particular soft spot for fiction that grapples with relationships (of all kinds), international or otherwise transporting settings, and writing with a sly sense of humor that also has emotional heft.
