부산대학교 도서관

This chapter examines why Cornelia Nixon fired her literary agent after the success of her novel Now You See It. It first provides an overview of literary magazines, which provided a contact point between unknown authors and literary agents who might read their works and help them in the field of production, before explaining how the role of literary agents has developed over time, and how they go about their work of constructing bridges across the divide between the fields of creation and production. Although Nixon's agent had successfully placed Now You See It, the chapter shows that Nixon increasingly worried that there were other meaningful things the agent did not see or do. Nixon decided to look for another agent and found Wendy Weil, who had spent twenty-five years in book publishing before founding her own literary agency in 1986.