I soon learned that books are the magic dust that turns an ordinary building into a publishing house: a place where writers can feel at home. They spilled off of shelves and hid in the corners of conference rooms. An ordinary office, yes-except that it was teeming with books. Instead, I found an ordinary office in midtown Manhattan alive with the ringing of phones, endless photocopying, and assistants scurrying from cubicle to cubicle. When I first entered the offices of Simon & Schuster as an intern seven years ago, I half expected to find rooms heavy with pipe smoke and equipped with decanters of whiskey, their inhabitants ensconced in the quiet seriousness of a library. This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. A heavy-hitting agent who for twenty-two years has represented some of the biggest literary writers in the country, Eric Simonoff discusses recent changes in the publishing industry, the pitfalls of self-publishing, and what he's learned about staying creative.
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