But the real work of increasing the range of voices on offer starts a lot earlier, in the offices of agents, publishers, creative writing tutors and literary festival organisers.
"Right now in my office of 40 agents, we are negotiating six short sales in Suffolk County".
Rivers and team owner Steve Ballmer are among a contingent of Clippers officials scheduled to meet with Jordan on Thursday in the Beverly Hills office of his agents.
"It's nice to see that an agent finally comes home, in an executive position," Special Agent Joseph G. Green, a spokesman for the bureau's New York office, said of Agent Anarumo.
First stop is the office of CIA agent Luke Hobbs Dwayne Johnsonn), where Shaw and Hobbs get into a fight that leaves the hulky agent broken.
Several N.H.L. teams sent delegations to woo him at the office of his agent, Pat Morris, in Mississauga, Ontario.
Mr. Niccol did not respond to a message left at the office of his agent at the Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles.
Brad Richards sat Friday in the office of his agent in Mississauga, Ontario, listening as suitors from N.H.L. teams made offers for him for roughly 10 hours.
"When I signed my last contract, there was a period of about six months, where I hoarded every nickel," he recalled during a recent interview at the office of his agent, Jill Smoller, at AMG Sports in Beverly Hills.
"This is where the best baseball in the world is played," Contreras said yesterday during a news conference at the office of his agent, the Miami-based lawyer Jaime Torres.
