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| Company Name: | ZACHARY SHUSTER HARMSWORTH |
| Description: | We are currently offering summer internships to ambitious and well-organized college students and graduates interested in learning the ins-and-outs of a vibrant literary agency. Interns will prepare detailed reader reports, assist with client projects when appropriate, and evaluate unsolicited submissions. Additional duties will include administrative work such as filing and answering phones.
Intern Responsibilities: Educational Component: 65% - Reading manuscripts and preparing reader’s reports for agents, and receiving constructive feedback - Reviewing submissions - Assisting agents on other client projects - Reading Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review, and other industry news Administrative/Clerical Work: 35% - Answering phones, filing, scanning and copying - Assisting the Director of Operations as needed Company Description: Zachary Shuster Harmsworth is a literary agency with offices in New York and Boston, MA. We represent a broad range of authors and work, including commercial and literary fiction, non-fiction, biography, memoir, psychology, adventure, and medicine. Many of the books we represent have become New York Times bestsellers. Our client list includes Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, a National Book Award winner, professors from Harvard, Yale and M.I.T., as well as top journalists from such major publications as The Wall St. Journal, The New York Times, Vogue, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today. For more information, please visit our website: www.zshliterary.com. |
| Length of Internship: | 3 months with the possibility of extension into the next season |
| Location: | New York, NY |
| Payment: | Unpaid |
| How To Apply For This Internship: | If you are a voracious and critical reader with keen editorial instincts and a desire to learn about book publishing, we invite you to submit a short cover letter and your resume to nycadmin@zshliterary.com. |
| URL | www.zshliterary.com |
