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NAME
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Henry Dunow
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AGENCY
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Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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henry@dclagency.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://dclagency.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Short Stories
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Multi-Cultural
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Narrative
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Specializes in literary fiction and "writerly" nonfiction
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Often represents works with familiar themes but off-beat, unconventional stories and characters
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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Agency changed its name in Feb 2005 from Dunow & Carlson Literary Agency to Dunow, Carlson & Lerner with the addition of Betsy Lerner as partner
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His client list includes Alice Sebold, Elizabeth McCracken, Kevin Baker, and Aimee Bender
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Author of a memoir, THE WAY HOME: Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Lovely Bones: A Novel
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Alice Sebold
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Commercial Fiction
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Little, Brown; 1st edition (July 3, 2002) |
14-year-old Susie Salmon is brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey, and narrates the novel from heaven where she keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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Aimee Bender
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; 1st ed edition (August 1, 1998) |
16 stories that portray a world twisted on its axis: a grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library; a woman falls in love with a hunchback, but when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him; a wife, whose husband returns home injuried from the war, struggles with the question, "Can she still love a man who has no lips?"
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A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism
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Peter Mountford
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Literary Fiction
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Mariner Books (April 12, 2011) |
In the tradition of Martin Amis, Joshua Ferris, and Sam Lipsyte—set against the stunning mountainous backdrop of La Paz and interspersed with Bolivia’s sad history of stubborn survival—this novel examines the critical choices a young man makes as his world closes in on him.
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Do Not Deny Me: Stories
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Jean Thompson
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Short Stories
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Simon & Schuster; Original edition (June 9, 2009) |
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
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Aimee Bender
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Literary Fiction
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Doubleday; 1 edition (June 1, 2010) |
Young, needy Rose Edelstein can literally taste the emotions of whoever prepares her food, giving her unwanted insight into other people's secret emotional lives—including her mother's, whose lemon cake betrays a deep dissatisfaction.
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