Lucy Carson
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The Friedrich Agency
Literary Agent at The Friedrich Agency, New Yorker, Anglophile, dog AND cat person, theater nerd, @girlswritenow mentor 📚 she/her
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devoured six books on my vacation, and really truly loved them all! But reading Evelyn Waugh’s THE LOVED ONE made me crave a modern story set in a cemetery that isn’t horror (or could have horror elements but isn’t primarily meant to be scary). Putting it out there! #MSWL
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One of my fave reads this summer: TELL ME EVERYTHING by @ErikaKrouse . The braiding of two investigations— one a groundbreaking Title IX case, the other into her own past (and her understanding of herself)— is spell-binding. This is the non-fiction I want for my list! #MSWL
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NYT Least Relevant Notable of 2021 Jeremy O Harris @jeremyoharris
This is the only person I’ve personally encountered on #booktok with ✨ELITE✨ taste! pic.twitter.com/I1EZnxnHzx#MSWL a novel where “something was going on” (and we have to get to the bottom of it) as perfectly explained here 👌
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Jhanteigh Kupihea @jhanteigh
I would like to read/acquire a novel in which it’s clear the author is surprising themselves with what they’re discovering about themselves and the world through their characters and isn’t obsessed with seeming morally good.Same here, but substitute “read/represent”! #MSWL
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rewatched two of my favorite movies over the break & realized they are both set at convents (SISTER ACT & TROUBLE WITH ANGELS) so now I am VERY in the mood to read a nun novel. AGATHA OF LITTLE NEON looks amazing but not out til August! So... #MSWL pls send me your nuns 🙏
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Haven’t done a #MSWL in a while, and the truth is my fiction taste is all over the place, BUT here are four novels I have recently loved:
LUSTER
CIRCE
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS
DEACON KING KONG
If you’re writing anything similar to those, please send it over! 🙏
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Jhanteigh Kupihea @jhanteigh
Hey so the bare bulb over the haunted boy painting in the Airbnb I usually stay at in Philly has been dimming and brightening every night this week and I just realized he was 100% bricked up behind this wall in 1957, wasn’t he pic.twitter.com/ue07M7AMjyUmmmm...
#MSWL
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I’ve been in dolphin withdrawal since my swim with Sherry so have been mainlining dolphin content in all media, including this TED talk, which I’ve watched 7x. If your book— fiction or non— featured dolphins in any way, plz send it to me! #MSWL 🐬 youtu.be/CQ5dRyyHwfM
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Sarah Weinman @sarahw
The first thing I read this morning was this wonderful follow-up story on a Brooklyn private eye. nytimes.com/2019/10/17/nyr…Not to state the obvious, but #MSWL
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The first few eps of #marvelousmrsmaisel have put me in the mood for a historical novel set in Paris... BUT I want it to have suspense/mystery elements, and lean literary in style. Universe, halp?! #MSWL
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Feeling very hungry for narrative non-fiction these days! Some 2018 non-fiction I have LOVED (but not repped): Educated (duh, who didn't?), All You Can Ever Know, The Personality Brokers, The Real Lolita, I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Dead Girls, I Am I Am I Am. #MSWL
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So narrative non-fiction seemed in demand at the Fair, but for some reason I am actually hankering for a fresh concept in pop-science right now! Send ‘em my way! 🤓 #mswl
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A particularly great list. Can an entire list be my #MSWL ? I need that new Jane Harper novel ASAP. elle.com/culture/books/…
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Kent D. Wolf @kentdwolf
My query folder is full of straight white men. Fit to bursting with PRIVILEGE.Please take note of Kent's #MSWL = hungry for other voices!
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The "Bully" episode of @CriminalShow would make a great novel: community reuniting to exact justice when law enforcement fails. #MSWL
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#MSWL "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ - " mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/wor…
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If you are querying adult fiction that bears any sort of comparison to SECRET HISTORY, let's talk! #MSWL
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Alex Arnold @alexyarnold
#MSWL a YA--historical or contemp--with a setting that's a character in its own right & a twist of something darkly magical/darkly strange@alexyarnold ooo I could go for one of those myself! #MSWL