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NAME
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Jim Rutman
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AGENCY
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Sterling Lord Literistic
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AAR MEMBER
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No
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EMAIL
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rutman@sll.com
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.sll.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Sports
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Celebrity
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Politics
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Current Affairs
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Military
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Journalism
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Represents a wide range of novelists, journalists, historians, critics, and short story writers
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Snail Mail/fiction: query, synopsis, and first 3 chapters with SASE
- Snail Mail/nonfiction: query, bio, proposal, sample chapter with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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Graduate of John Carroll University
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
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Greg Tate
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Multi-Cultural
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Pop Culture
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Broadway; 1st edition (January 14, 2003) |
In this collection, essayists examine how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang
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Twelve Bar Blues
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Patrick Neate
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Literary Fiction
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Family Saga
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Multi-Cultural
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Grove Press; 1 Amer ed edition (October 1, 2002) |
An epic tale of fate and family, jazz and juju that spans three continents and two centuries to tell a story of enduring roots and indelible love
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Tobacco: A Cultural History Of How An Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
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Iain Gately
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History
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Narrative
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Diane Pub Co (July 1, 2004) |
The epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today
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Alternative Atlanta
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Marshall Boswell
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Literary Fiction
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Humor/Satire
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Delacorte Press (January 25, 2005) |
For thirty-year-old Gerald Brinkman, life in Atlanta in the year 1996–the summer of the Olympics–doesn’t feel half bad. Writing reviews of basement rock bands for an alternative paper, Gerald has carefully avoided getting a real job, while watching his old friends from grad school start careers, marriages, and affairs; but in this one life-changing summer, something is about to happen that will shake Gerald out of his complacency forever
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