The Denise Shannon Literary Agency is a New York-based boutique agency with a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction authors. Particular areas of specialty include literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, biography, journalism, politics, social history, health and business. The agency’s clients have received numerous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award finalist medal, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

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TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Three of Denise Shannon Literary Agency’s books appear on TIME Magazine’s list of Must-Read Books of 2025: THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell (Knopf) PAN by Michael Clune (Penguin Press) VERA, OR FAITH by Gary Shteyngart (Random House)

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