by Michael Bourne
| Department: | Special Section |
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| Issue: | July/August 2012 |
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Literary agent Ellen Levine describes the moment when she first decided to take on unpublished author Ayana Mathis and offers a line-by-line reaction to a page from Mathis’s forthcoming novel that commanded the agent’s attention and convinced her of the manuscript’s literary merit. |