“There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.” —John Hodgman

Founded in 1977, the Frances Goldin Literary Agency is a full-service literary agency based in New York City’s Greenwich Village. We represent literary fiction, high-quality commercial fiction, and serious, often controversial nonfiction, with a particular interest in books with a progressive political orientation. We represent over 100 active award-winning writers, journalists, scholars, poets and activists, including Barbara Kingsolver, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Pulitzer Prize winning authors of GOTHAM, Mike Wallace, and Ted Burroughs.

I'm interested in emotionally, intellectually, and formally adventurous work of all kinds and am particularly interested in writers who believe nonfiction can be as artful as fiction.

*John D'Agata — Teaches graduate writing at The University of Iowa; finalist for the Pen/Martha Albrand Award for "Halls of Fame"; editor of "The Next American Essay".

*Brian Evenson — Director of the Brown Creative Writing program; Two-time O. Henry Award Winner; author of "Altmann’s Tongue" (Knopf) and "The Open Curtain" (Coffee House), among many other works.

*NY Times contributor, Dan Crane, aka Björn Türoque (B-Yorn Too-Rawk), aka "the Susan Lucci of Air Guitar" — Author of "To Air is Human: One Man’s Quest to Become the World’s Greatest Air Guitarist" (Riverhead).

*Ander Monson — author of "Other Electricities" (finalist for the 2006 New York Public Library’s Young Lion Award, winner Ploughshares First Book Award), "Vacationland", and "Neck Deep", forthcoming from Graywolf as winner of their 2006 Literary Nonfiction Award.

*Steve Wilson's PERROS ON THE PITCH: A Season Playing the Immigrant’s Game, to Beacon Press

*Aram Goudsouzian's BILL RUSSELL AND THE BASKETBALL REVOLUTION to University of California Press

*NOTES FROM NO MAN'S LAND: AMERICAN ESSAYS by Eula Biss, as the winner of the 2008 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

*Fox Sports analyst, Jamie Trecker's LOVE & BLOOD: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans and Freaks (Harcourt)

*Radar Editor-at-Large, and NY Times contributor, Dale Hrabi's THE PERFECT BABY HANDBOOK: A Guide for the Excessively Motivated New Parent (Harper Perennial)

*First novelist, Dave Bledin's BANK (Little Brown)

TO AIR IS HUMAN, Film rights to Dreamworks

Was listed as one of the "Twenty-One Agents You Should Know" in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

A brief, straightforward email is fine (mm@goldinlit.com), or a query letter with an SASE. Please include 5-10 pages of your work. No attachments please.