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Please join editor Jennifer Pooley and literary agent Dorian Karchmar from William Morrow and William Morris, respectively, as they discuss their jobs and specialties. For Paragraph members only.

Jennifer Pooley is an editor at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, where she acquires both literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Her list includes, among many other titles: Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life and Northline; K.L. Cook's The Girl from Charnelle; Catherine Hanrahan's Lost Girls and Love Hotels; Maud Casey's Genealogy; Christopher Bram's Exiles in America; Marjorie Hart's Summer at Tiffany (a debut memoir published on the cusp of the author's 83rd birthday); and Sara James and Ginger Mauney's The Best of Friends among other titles. She graduated from Colgate University in 1997 and highly recommends the annual Colgate University Writers' Conference (June 22- 28, 2008) to Paragraph members and their friends.

Dorian Karchmar is an agent with William Morris Agency where she represents both fiction and nonfiction writers. Her list includes Jennifer Haigh, winner of the L.L. Winship/PEN award for Baker Towers and the PEN/Heminway Award, for Mrs. Kimble, her debut novel; Eric Puchner, whose story collection Music Through the Floor, was a finalist for New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award; photographer Pattie Boyd, whose memoir Wonderful Tonight was number one on The New York Times bestseller list; novelist Scott Heim, author of We Disappear and Mysterious Skin, which was adapted into one of the most acclaimed independent feature films of 2005; and Kate Jacobs, author of the international bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club. Dorian has been an agent since 1999, prior to which she received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa.

Date: Thursday, February 21st, 2008, 5:30 PM to 6:30PM
Location: Paragraph, 35 West 14th Street