Jim Rutman
Jim is interested in working with a broad range of writers of intellectually ambitious fiction and nonfiction. He represents a varied group of journalists, historians and critics, each, in his/her own way, compelled to engage questions of broad social or cultural consequence, through either the filter of academic perspective, personal experience or historical perspective. He has worked on thematic history projects (Tobacco, Color), genre-unspecific essay collections (Everything but the Burden, The Book of Disquiet), biography (Jung, Charlemagne), social history (Undertaker of the Mind, The Human Animal, Where You’re At, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), and a variety of other works of nonfiction. He also represents a varied assortment of novelists and short story writers, with a preference for morally and formally challenging writers (Beautiful Children, Ursula, Under, In the Hope of Rising Again, The Geographer's Library) that demand and divert attention while straining convention, and he eagerly awaits the publication of Bernard Avishai’s THE HEBREW REPUBLIC, and debut novels from Tom Robb Smith (CHILD 44), Jessica Anthony’s THE CONVELESCENT, among others. He's been with SLL since 1998.
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