APS TOGETHER
Day 6
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 6
November 11, 2023 by Yiyun Li
Amy Reardon is a quintessential agent, with an understanding of literary merit, interest in international copyright and the inner mechanisms of publishing, and a practical mind.
“I’m going to set my sisters afloat in literature.”
A very Jasper Milvain statement. Imagine anyone these days saying: I’m going to set myself afloat in literature! (And quickly sinking…)
“I must marry someone with money, and a good deal of it.”
One has to acknowledge Jasper Milvain’s practical ambition. Men and women like Jasper are part of the force that keeps literature going.
