Laura B. McGrath co-edits the Culture Industries section of Public Books. She is an assistant professor of English at Temple University, National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, and former associate director of the Stanford University Literary Lab. Her writing on literature and the publishing industry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is at work on her first book, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of Contemporary American Literature (Princeton University Press).












