Jamie Carr, Senior AGENT
Jamie Carr joined The Book Group in January 2020. A senior agent at TBG, she champions award-winning debuts, commercial book club fiction, and expert-driven nonfiction at the forefront of culture. Her titles have been chosen as Indie Next, Target Book Club, and Book of the Month picks. She’s also had books featured on NPR’s Best Books of the Year list, GMA (Buzzworthy segment), USA TODAY’s Bestseller List, and nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards, to name just a few. Previous to TBG, she was at William Morris Endeavor for almost six years. She has an MFA in fiction writing and began her publishing journey in the books department of Tin House. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.
Jamie represents novelists, journalists, and experts in culture, food, sobriety, finance, millennial and Jewish issues, and more. In fiction, she’s drawn to stories about navigating mid-thirties and forties marriage/divorce, motherhood, and complicated friendship. She likes a book with big biting humor or big twisy suspense to also have heart. She’s especially a sucker for a multi-POV story and an atmospheric setting. On the whole, she is drawn to writing that is voice-driven, highly transporting, from unique perspectives and marginalized voices, and that seeks to disrupt or reframe what appears to be known. While born and raised in New York City, she prefers stories set in other areas of the country.
For Jamie’s most up-to-date wishlist, please click here.
A few books I loved reading in my free time... Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, The Wedding People by Alison Espach, Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Listen for the Lie by Amy Tinterra, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn and Stay True by Hua Hsu.