This writer is looking for an agent.

I am senior editor and acquisitions manager of Planners Press and PAS Reports at the American Planning Association. I have been a leading copy and line editor of trade nonfiction. In 2007, I was the project manager and co-editor for the exhibition "Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York," at the Municipal Art Society (http://www.futureofNY.org).

My current manuscript on offer is a complex novel about Robert Moses and the development of New York City called EVERYTHING MUST GO. It's 1100 pages long, has notes, and is the first novel ever accepted as a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of geography. I like to think of it as INFINITE JEST crossed with ALL THE KING'S MEN and THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY.

Intertwining episodes of Robert Moses's life with the stories of three generations of a black East Coast family, this novel reveals shocking new aspects of Moses's career, influence, and psychology, and it leads to some startling and counterintuitive revelations.

A quarter century after his death, Moses and his way of getting things done in the city remain in the public mind. The recent "revision" of him was incomplete--as is our understanding of him and his work.

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I am also at present looking for a home for a nonfiction work called WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW? which is about visions of the future in America from 1933 to 1964. Parts of this have been published in academic journals and have won academic awards.

Last, my previous fiction manuscript, INVISIBLE WHITE MAN, needs a home. Please contact me for more information about this intense, peculiar book about race, authenticity, art, and hate in contemporary Philadelphia.

On request

Penguin Press
Knopf
Twelve
Little Random

Nicholson Baker, THE ANTHOLOGIST (S&S)
Nicholas Fox Weber, LE CORBUSIER (Knopf)
Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, THE NUCLEAR JIHADIST (Twelve)
Eric Weiner, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS (Twelve)
John McCain and Mark Salter, HARD CALL (Twelve)

Edmund Morris, DUTCH and THEODORE REX and BEETHOVEN
Ron Chernow, TITAN and ALEXANDER HAMILTON
James Atlas, BELLOW
Jesse Ventura, I AIN'T GOT TIME TO BLEED

I've been employed variously by Random House, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Artforum magazine, Princeton University Press, and Comico the Comic Company. Details on request.

I have a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where I taught classes on the suburbs, the history of urban planning, and the geography of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I have published academic articles on the development of shopping malls and on the peculiarities of the housing industry in America at the very end of World War II. I have also taught a class at Carleton College on publishing, libraries, and culture.

EVERYTHING MUST GO: A NOVEL OF ROBERT MOSES'S NEW YORK (literary fiction / biography)

INVISIBLE WHITE MAN (literary fiction)

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW? (history)