![]() ![]() GH: Like everyone, I love something that is truly and deeply funny. So I went to work at a literary agency.īDB: What sort of material do you especially like to handle? Ten years later, it occurred to me that those people had what seemed to be a pretty neat job- they were fairly independent and got to read a lot. GH: I wrote a few novels, and in the nineties I was briefly represented by two different agents, neither of whom had any luck with my rather precious, self-indulgent work. Gary is looking for history, science, true crime, pop culture, psychology, business, military and some literary fiction. His librettos for composer Evan Hause’s Defenestration Trilogy earned praise from Newsday, Opera News and the New York Press, and his musical comedies (he has written several in collaboration with Gary Miles, including The Feng Shui Assassin and American Eyeball) were described by The Onion as “strangely funny.” Originally from Texas, he has lived in New York City for a decade and a half. Upon graduating, he returned to the nightclubs as a gigging musician the Village Voice called his first album a “masterpiece.” He is a published poet and columnist. The following is an interview I did earlier this year with NYC literary agent Gary Heidt for The ASJA Monthly.įinePrint Literary Management agent, Gary Heidt, was a John Jay Scholar at Columbia University and General Manager at WKCR-FM.
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