You slut!

Here's an article about the role of the agent as gatekeeper of the literary world. The author imagines a nonexistent bookstore that sells the literature of a different history, where different books were accepted by publishers instead of rejected. It's a compelling fantasy in a realm where 85% of potential books suck, 5% are worth publishing and potentially interesting or important, and less than 1% actually make it to bookstores.

That's via Bookslut.com, which has a pretty good lit-related blog full of links.