Agent

JULIE BARER, after working for six years at the literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, started her own agency, Barer Literary.  She represents a wide range of fiction writers, including debut novelist Joshua Ferris, and short story writer Gina Ochsner, author of the collection People I Wanted to Be, stories from which have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and Best American NonRequired Reading.  Barer also represents nonfiction clients whose specialties include biography, memoir, narrative nonfiction, history, and popular culture.