By MIKE MAGEE
When I asked my brilliant literary agent, Jill Kneerim, when I would know that my book proposal was ready for submission, she replied directly, “It will be ready when I say it is ready.” Eleven months later, in April, 2018, she finally green lit the project, and two weeks after that, in an orchestrated two-round public auction, it “sold” to Grove/Atlantic Press.
I passed over the highest bidder in choosing to earn the opportunity to be associated with a literary and cultural publication – The Atlantic Monthly– that dates back to November, 1857, when it “quickly became known for the quality of its…
