Janklow & Nesbit Associates is seeking two bright, energetic remote interns for summer 2023. Interns will be offered the chance to develop their reading and analytical writing skills, assist with general office duties, and learn about all aspects of agenting, including the submission process, client care, contracts, subsidiary rights, and more. This is a part-time, remote, paid opportunity. No prior publishing experience is required. Candidates from underrepresented communities are particularly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities will involve evaluating submissions and client manuscripts, writing reader’s reports and editorial letters, drafting pitch letters, attending weekly lectures by agency personnel, curating social media posts, research, and data entry, and general administrative duties. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are 18+ with a U.S. bank account, U.S. social security number, reliable internet connection, video call capabilities, and laptop/computer access. Qualifications include excellent reading and writing skills, attention to detail, and an eagerness to learn about the literary landscape and the industry at large.

Dionne Irving’s collection of stories THE ISLANDS was named one of the five finalists for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced in April, and all finalists will be honored on May 11 at the 43rd Anniversary PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC. Catapult published the book on November 1, 2022.

A review from Publishers Weekly raves that Elliot Ackerman’s HALCYON is a “thought-provoking alternate history,” adding: “Ackerman is great at probing the scientific ethics of resurrection. This visionary tale is worth a look.” Knopf will publish the book on May 23, 2023.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey received a wonderful review from Heller McAlpin in The Wall Street Journal, who writes: “TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is Ms. Novey’s first novel set in the United States, and her most autobiographical. It is also her most moving…Ms. Novey, who teaches fiction at Princeton and in NYU’s graduate writing program, is adept at spooling out tensions to keep readers eagerly turning pages. More important, she knows how to forge ‘some new kind of beauty’ by fusing disparate materials—scrap metal, fractured mirrors, camera lenses—that reflect shattered families and egos, dead-end poverty, divisive disdain and distrust, hope and love. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is a heart-rending book, but it’s also a beautiful celebration of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new,’ be it a work of art or a human connection.” The novel was also an Audible Editors Select pick for the month of March, with Audible Editor Katie O’Connor raving: “Idra Novey weaves the dual timelines of Leah and Jean together in a way that builds tension for the listener. Novey herself poignantly narrates Leah in what she describes as her most autobiographical work yet, while Christina Delaine delivers a no-nonsense yet endearing Jean. I immediately found myself wrapped up in their lives, and I’m eager for listeners to get to know the secrets of these women.” Viking will publish the book on March 14, 2023.

Erica Berry continues to receive stellar press for her debut work of nonfiction, WOLFISH: WOLF, SELF, AND THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT FEAR. The Atlantic published a great review by Lily Meyer, which reads: “Among the book’s strengths is Berry’s awareness that, as she puts it, ‘my wolf is not your wolf.’ Berry combines memoir, journalism, and cultural criticism, weaving in others’ voices to remind readers that her perspective is only one of many…Berry’s braided approach renders WOLFISH both a vulnerable self-investigation and a wide-ranging exploration of fear—and, ultimately, an antidote to it…Her writing is richest when she fully commits to examining wolf metaphors and the ways in which we turn even very real wolves into symbols.” Flatiron published WOLFISH in the U.S. on February 21, 2023.

The mass market edition of BEAUTIFUL debuted at #1 on the New York Times Mass Market bestseller list for March 2023.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a fantastic review from The New York Times, where Ladee Hubbard writes: "Powerful and timely…It is a testament to Carr’s power as a writer that she is able to so clearly represent these aspects of her characters’ experiences with such intimacy and honesty. In that sense, the book is an admission of the fact that, for all the changes that have occurred in our society over the past 100 years, many Black people, both men and women, are still processing the trauma and violence caused by their body’s simultaneous hypervisibility and erasure.” AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN was also featured on Lit Hub’s "11 New Books to Read Right Now," and Carr was profiled in the Houston Chronicle, which praises the book as a “graceful” debut. Pantheon published the book on February 28, 2023.

Eugene Lim’s SEARCH HISTORY is the winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing (Prose) Award for 2023. The AAAS Committee writes: “Mimicking the paths and rabbit holes of internet searches, SEARCH HISTORY is a powerful commentary on the anxieties and alienations of diasporic identities, specifically Korean American identities—compellingly intertwining questions of art and identity with posthuman anxieties about performativity and replicability in a world beginning to grapple with the capabilities of AI. SEARCH HISTORY is a brilliantly constructed, smartly delightful, and emotionally rich short novel that positions Eugene Lim as one of our brightest experimental Asian American writers working today.” Coffee House Press published SEARCH HISTORY on October 5, 2021.

Kathleen McLaughlin was interviewed in the Guardian about her book BLOOD MONEY. Atria/One Signal Publishers published the book on February 28, 2023.

De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s DECENT PEOPLE received a great review from Humanities Tennessee’s website Chapter16: “Murder mysteries conventionally focus on a single question: Who did it? The best of the genre — such as De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s new novel DECENT PEOPLE — raise more philosophical issues. What is the value of human life? What kind of world do we live in? Is justice possible? … Despite the darkness of the subject matter, Winslow has a light touch, moving readers briskly through the novel’s kaleidoscopic events. He spices the story with period detail, apposite references to MCMILLAN & WIFE and Patty Hearst that remind us we are visiting a lost world. Winslow’s novel partakes of seedy crime and racial violence, family secrets and betrayals, romantic rivalries and hopeless loves but resolves into an essentially domestic question: Where can we find a home?” Winslow was also interviewed for Pen America's "Pen 10 Column." Bloomsbury published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

GIRLS AND THEIR MONSTERS, Audrey Clare Farley’s next work of nonfiction, received a rave review from Publishers Weekly. It reads: “Farley’s narrative is based in deep research and makes for her nuanced analysis of the country’s shifting attitudes toward childhood and mental health. Readers will be riveted.” Grand Central Publishing will publish GIRLS AND THEIR MONSTERS on June 13, 2023.

Alexandra Auder’s forthcoming memoir DON’T CALL ME HOME earned a place on literary tastemaker Zibby Owens’s list of the “Most Anticipated Spring and Summer Books.” Elsewhere, Publishers Weekly offered a strong review, writing: “Funny, bracing, and compulsively readable, Auder’s memoir resists juicy gossip in favor of hard-won truths. This story of fraught but unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters is a gem.” Viking will publish DON’T CALL ME HOME on May 2, 2023.