Earlier this morning, the Booker Prize judges announced their shortlist for 2019, stamping just six novels—out of the ...

Laura B. McGrath
Laura B. McGrath is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and the former Associate Director of the Stanford University Literary Lab. Her writing on literature and the publishing industry has appeared in The Atlantic and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is at work on her first book, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of Contemporary American Literature.