Publishers Weekly, March 30th, 1992
In 1979 a nervous graduate of the University of New Hampshire's writing program handed literary agent Harriet Wasserman's secretary a few short stories and 50 pages of an unfinished novel. Wasserman read them, called the writer and said, "I want you to give me everything you've got." Not too long after that, she invited Alice McDermott to her office and asked, "Would you like a male editor or a female one?" The astonished 26-year-old, who would have been happy with "any living, breathing literary editor," wound up under the wing of Jonathan Galassi, then a rising star at Houghton Mifflin. She...
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