Close
Jonny Geller
By Rebecca Markwick, on 9 February 2021
Jonny Geller
I chat with Jonny Geller, literary agent and CEO of Curtis Brown. We talk all about agenting and the stresses attached to it, what books Jonny likes to read (and re-read!) and the difficulties of agenting in a pandemic.
(Jonny’s picture by Dean Belcher)
Show Notes
I chat with Jonny Geller, literary agent and CEO of Curtis Brown. We talk all about agenting and the stresses attached to it, what books Jonny likes to read (and re-read!) and why as well as about the benefits on mental health of a large literary agency and the difficulties of agenting in a pandemic.
(Jonny’s picture by Dean Belcher)
Link to Curtis Brown Group – Literary Agency
Link to Jonny’s twitter
Link to Curtis Brown twitter
List of authors and works mentioned:
Authors:
Susanna Clarke
Taschen (Publisher)
Gustav Flaubert
Marcel Proust
Ivan Turgenev
Gabriel García Márquez
Tracy Chevalier
David Nicholls
Matthew Syed
John le Carré
William Boyd
David Mitchell
Jane Austen
Anton Chekhov
Works:
Yes, but is it Good for the Jews? by Jonny Geller
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Short stories by Chekhov