Literary Representation
Katie Kotchman
Don Congdon Agency
kkotchman@doncongdon.com
Inspiration
If you read my writing and found it helpful in any way, below is a short list of nonfiction books and essays that have inspired and challenged me on my journey. Perhaps they will inspire you, too.
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Isaiah Berlin, “A Message to the Twenty-First Century”
Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Descanso for My Father
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost and Half the Way Home
Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery
James Galvin, The Meadow
Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir
Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy
David Shields, Reality Hunger
Lidia Yuknavitch, “Woven”
The collected works of James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Wendell Barry Craft
Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House
Robert Olen Butler, From Where You Dream
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story
Sue William Silverman, Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir