Melissa Flashman
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Likely Open
Updated: 9/17/2025
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A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Melissa Flashman majored in English at Wesleyan University.
After stints in the English PhD program at Johns Hopkins, commercial and indie radio, the advertising world and something called cool-hunting (it was the late ‘90s), she got her first job in publishing working as an assistant in the literary department of ICM before moving to Trident Media Group where she was a literary agent for over ten years before joining Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 2017.
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- David Graeber
- David Wengrow
- Oliver Burkeman
- Kathleen Hanna
- Patric Gagne
- Charlie Warzel
- Anne Helen Petersen
- Stephanie Danler
- Anne Boyer
- Charles Booker
- Amina Cain
- Emily Gould
- Conor Dougherty
- Judson Brewer
- Quinn Slobodian
- Astra Taylor
Book Sales
- The Dawn Of Everything
- Meditations For Mortals
- Rebel Girl
- Sociopath
- Out Of Office
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