Come hear an agent and editors from The Paris Review, New York magazine, The Week magazine, and The Wall Street Journal discuss how to craft a great (and perfect) pitch. Feel free to bring along anyone interested as well as all the questions you’ve been dying to ask. Open to the general public.
DATE: Wednesday, February 3rd from 5:30 to 7:30
PLACE: Segal Theater, at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (and 34th)
Christopher Cox is a senior editor at The Paris Review, where he works with fiction, interviews, and reportage. He edited the new book The Paris Review Interviews, vol. 4, which was published in November by Picador. Before coming to the Review, he worked at Artforum, German National Radio, and NPR.
Priscilla Gilman grew up in New York City, and received her B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. in English and American literature from Yale University. She was a professor of English literature at both Yale University and Vassar College before leaving academia in 2006. She has published numerous academic articles, chaired panels and lectured at literary and early childhood conferences, and taught poetry to inmates in a restorative justice program. She works as a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and lives with her two sons in New York City. Her own book, The Anti-Romantic Child, will be published by HarperCollins in early 2011.
Hugo Lindgren has been editorial director of New York magazine. Soon he is moving to Business Week as executive editor. In addition to editing all genres and stories, he also write about business, music and sports. Last November he wrote the cover story “Brooklyn’s Sonic Boom.” He has also worked as an editor at Metropolis, George, & The New York Times Magazine.
David Propson is deputy editor of The Week magazine, where he oversees its arts and leisure coverage. Previously he was culture and books editor at The New York Sun. He writes frequently about books and the arts for The Wall Street Journal and other publications.
Eben Shapiro began practicing journalism at a long defunct Midwestern business publication. He snuck into big-league journalism through the backdoor, as a contract writer for The New York Times. After becoming a full-fledged made man at the Times, he left in 1994 to join The Wall Street Journal. He left the Journal briefly to become business editor for a national magazine. He returned to the WSJ in 2000 to help launch the Personal Journal section. He began the editing the Journal’s Weekend sections, which focus on culture and entertainment, in 2006.
