10/7/2019 VIKING PAMELA DORMAN BOOKS PENGUIN PRESS RIVERHEAD BOOKS _________________________ FRANKFURT 2019 HIGHLIGHTS LIST _________________________ HAL FESSENDEN Tel: 001.212.366.2797 Fax: 001.212.243.6002 Email: [email protected] JENNIFER CHOI Tel: 001.212.366.2790 Fax: 001.212.243.6002 Email: [email protected] For FILM, TELEVISION, and DRAMATIC ADAPTATION RIGHTS, FAX your request to 001.212.366.2933. Please include the book’s TITLE, AUTHOR, and IMPRINT. 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 1 FALL 2019 LEADERSHIP IN WAR: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History By Andrew Roberts Nonfiction | Viking | October 29, 2019 | World Rights Agent: Georgina Capel Associates Manuscript available Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major leaders in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Horatio Nelson, Margaret Thatcher, and George Marshall. Andrew Roberts is the bestselling author of CHURCHILL, THE STORM OF WAR, MASTERS AND COMMANDERS, WATERLOO, and NAPOLEON, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and a finalist for the Plutarch Award. He has won many other prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book of the Year, and frequently writes for The Wall Street Journal. SOLD TO Penguin UK Companhia das Letras/Brazil Ciela Norma AD/Bulgaria Dioptra Publishing/Greece Grup Media Litera/Romania Kronik Kitap/Turkey 2 POWER OF BAD: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It By John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister Nonfiction | Penguin Press | December 31, 2019 | World Rights Agent: ICM Partners Manuscript available To find out why adverse events have a bigger impact on people than positive events, the authors of Willpower have teamed up again to explore how the “evil edge” affects people’s minds and behaviors, how it helps and how it harms, and how it can be put to use and how it can be overcome. John Tierney writes the "Findings" science column for The New York Times. His writing has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Physics. Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist who explores how we think about the self, and why we feel and act the way we do. He is known for his work on the subjects of willpower, self-control, and self-esteem, and how they relate to human morality and success. SOLD TO Penguin UK China (CITIC Press) Germany (Campus Verlag) Israel (Matar Publishing) Korea (Eco-Livres) Netherlands (Nieuwezijds) Romania (Paralela 45) Russia (Eksmo) Thailand (B2S Co., Ltd.) OPTION PUBLISHERS: Willpower Penguin UK Arabic (Jarir Bookstore) Brazil (Editora Lafonte) Bulgaria (Bard Publishing) China (CITIC Press) Denmark (Dafolo) Estonia (Tanapaev) Finland (Viisas Elama) France (Markus Haller) Germany (Campus Verlag) Hungary (Ursus Libris) Italy (Antonio Vallardi) Japan (Intershift) Korea (Eco-Livres) Macedonia (Ars Studio) Netherlands (Nieuwezijds) Norway (B&V Flux Forlag) Poland (Harbor Point) Portugal (Lua de Papel) Romania (Paralela 45) Russia (Eksmo) Taiwan (EcoTrend) Thailand (WeLearn) Turkey (Tual Basin) 3 SPRING 2020 REAL LIFE: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Fiction | Riverhead | February 18, 2020| World Rights Agent: DeFiore and Company Manuscript available A searing novel in ten parts, REAL LIFE excavates the social intricacies of a summer weekend on one level, and a lifetime of buried pain, on another. Taylor touches both seductively and scathingly on love’s proximal relationship to violence (and the inherently complex sexual politics of that proximity), the unknowability of another’s grief, the indefatigable human desire for connection, and the microaggressions attendant to racism, homophobia, and additional kinds of othering. Brandon Taylor is the associate editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Writer's workshop. His stories and essays have appeared at Literary Hub, Catapult, Them.com, Gulf Coast, Little Fiction, Amazon's Day One, Out Magazine online, Necessary Fiction, Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. SOLD TO Piper Verlag/Germany ADVANCE PRAISE “There is writing so exceptional, so intricately crafted that it demands reverence. The intimate prose of Brandon Taylor’s exquisite debut novel, Real Life, offers exactly that kind of writing. He writes so powerfully about so many things—the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need. Wallace, the man at the center of this novel, is written with nuance and tenderness and complexity. Truly, this is stunning work from a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.” —Roxane Gay “This book blew my head and heart off. For a debut novelist to disentangle and rebraid intimacy, terror, and joy this finely seems like a myth. But that, and so much more, is what Brandon Taylor has done in Real Life. The future of the novel is here and Brandon Taylor is that future’s name.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy “Real Life is a gorgeous work of art, and the introduction of a singular new voice. Through Wallace, the book explores the tension of a person trying to become himself while surrounded by people who can see him only as their own projection. Even as Brandon Taylor dives beneath the level of polite surface interaction and into the ache of what people conceal from one another, or reveal only as weaponry, his sharply rendered observations make it a true pleasure to spend time in this book’s world.” —Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self “Real Life is one of the finest fiction debuts I’ve read in the last decade—elegant and brutal, handled by an author whose attention to the heart is unlike any other’s. A magnificent novel.” —Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise “A few summer days, a group of friends, a difficult intimacy—with the simplest materials, Real Life reveals the knives we pocket in good intentions, our constant, communal sabotage of love. Brandon Taylor’s genius lies in the elaboration of ever more revelatory gradations of feeling; in his extraordinary debut he invents new tools for navigating the human dark in which we know one another. He is a brilliant writer, and this is a beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 4 DEACON KING KONG: A Novel By James McBride Fiction | Riverhead | March 3, 2020| Translation only Agent: Sterling Lord Literistic Inc. Manuscript available In DEACON KING KONG, the National Book Award winning and bestselling author of THE GOOD LORD BIRD explores the lives of the people touched by a shooting at a Brooklyn housing project: the victim and his posse, the shooter, the witnesses, the cops, even the shooter's dead wife. James McBride is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award-winning novel THE GOOD LORD BIRD, the bestselling American classic THE COLOR OF WATER, the novels SONG YET UNSUNG and MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, the story collection FIVE-CARAT SOUL, and KILL ‘EM AND LEAVE, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. SOLD TO France (Editions Gallmeister) Germany (Verlagsgruppe RH) OPTION PUBLISHERS: The Good Lord Bird Brazil (Editora Bertrand Brasil) Germany (Verlagsgruppe RH) Romania (Pandora) China (Shanghai Dook Publishing) Israel (Matar Triwaks) Spain (Hoja de Lata) Denmark (Forlaget Ordenes) Netherlands (Xander Uitgevers) Thailand (Post Publishing) France (Editions Gallmeister) Poland (Wydawnictwo Czarne) Turkey (Okuyan Us) THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS: Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable By Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt Fiction | Pamela Dorman Books | March 10, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Dupree Miller Associates Manuscript available A short, fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive—with firsthand stories from those who have lived it and learned to let go of resentment and find peace. Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is a New York Times bestselling author, animal advocate, daughter, sister, wife and step-mom. As a passionate animal advocate, Katherine works as an Ambassador for Best Friends Animal Society and the ASPCA, lending her time, voice and energy to spread awareness about animal rescue. As an author, Katherine has skillfully translated her own personal experiences into all four of her books that speak to her generation. 5 HOW TO BE AN ARTIST By Jerry Saltz Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 17, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Chris Calhoun Agency Manuscript available How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I’m doing even art at all? Artists, both amateur and professional, have approached New York magazine’s chief art critic Jerry Saltz with questions like these: they want to know, in short, how to be an artist. Expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine—and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world—Jerry Saltz has the answers. Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, and a finalist for the 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, Saltz had been art critic for