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19 West 21st St. Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 / Telephone: (212) 765-6900 / E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS SCIENCE, BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS HOUSE OF STICKS THE BIG HURT BRAIN INFLAMMED HORSE GIRLS FIRST STEPS YOU HAD ME AT PET NAT RUNNER’S HIGH MY BODY TALENT MUHAMMAD, THE WORLD-CHANGER WINNING THE RIGHT GAME VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED SUPERSIGHT THE SUM OF TRIFLES THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS AUGUST WILSON WHO IS BLACK, AND WHY? CRYING IN THE BATHROOM PROJECT TOTAL RECALL I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND BLACK SKINHEAD REBEL TO AMERICA CHANGING GENDER KIKI MAN RAY EVER GREEN MURDER BOOK RADICAL RADIANCE DOT DOT DOT FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH HOW TO SAY BABYLON THE RISE OF THE MAMMALS THE RECKONING RECOVERY GUCCI TO GOATS TINDERBOX RHAPSODY AMERICAN RESISTANCE SWOLE APOCALYPSE ONBOARDING WEATHERING CONQUERING ALEXANDER VIRAL JUSTICE UNTITLED TOM SELLECK MEMOIR UNTITLED ON AI THE GLASS OF FASHION IT’S ALL TALK CHANGE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION UNTITLED ON CLASSICAL MUSIC MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU FIERCE POISE THE WIVES BEAUTIFUL THINGS PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE THE SPARE ROOM TANAQUIL NOTHING PERSONAL THE ROARING GIRL PROOF OF LIFE CITIZEN KIM BRAT DON’T THINK, DEAR TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONT. MINDFULNESS & SELF-HELP KILLING THATCHER EDITING MY EVERYTHING WE DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE SOUL THERAPY THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GROWING YOUNG HISTORY TRUE AGE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE WILD MINDS THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE INTELLIGENT LOVE THE POWER OF THE DOWNSTATE MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS PLATONIC FIRST TO FALL SENSITIVE SPRINTING THROUGH NO MAN’S LAND THE COLOR OF ABOLITION NARRATIVE NONFICTION PICASSO’S WAR THE VORTEX IN THIS PLACE TOGETHER BLOOD & INK CHASING THE THRILL GUN BARONS CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSTLE ON THE EDGE THE MEMORY THEIF POISONED INK THE POWER OF STRANGERS THE GOLDEN DOOR TALKING FUNNY THE RED WIDOW SQUIRREL HILL OTHER FRONTS PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST A BRIGHT AND BLINDING SUN DEMOCRACY’S DATA THE SISTERHOOD NOSTALGIA GHOST CATS CURE-ALL MOSKVA SPOKEN WORD PROJECT CONFRONTATION MAGIC TO DO THE KINGDOM OF PREP GOOD COP OSCAR WARS GRACE UPCOMING SCIENCE, BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS BRAIN INFLAMED Uncovering the Hidden Causes of Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mood Disorders in Adolescents and Teens By Kenneth Bock, M.D. NA March 2021 / HarperWave (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Julie Will Final PDF Available Rights Sold: Turkish (Bir Publishing) Bulgarian (Kibea) UK/Comm (Piatkus / Little, Brown)

From renowned integrative physician Kenneth Bock, M.D., comes a groundbreaking approach to understanding adolescent and teen mental health disorders.

Over the past decade, the number of 12- to 17-year-olds suffering from mental health disorders has more than doubled. While adolescents and teens are notorious for mood swings and rebellion, parents today are navigating new terrain as their children are increasingly at risk of struggling with a mental health issue. But the question remains: What is causing this epidemic of illness? In Brain Inflamed, acclaimed integrative doctor Dr. Kenneth Bock shares a revolutionary new view of adolescent and teen mental health—one that suggests many of the mental disorders most common among this population (including depression, anxiety, and OCD) may share the same underlying mechanism: systemic inflammation. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Bock explains the essential role of the immune system and the microbiome in mental health, detailing the ways in which imbalances in these systems—such as autoimmune conditions, thyroid disorders, or leaky gut syndrome—can generate neurological inflammation. While most conventional “A game-changer for parents desperately looking for answers to their children’s doctors assume that teens’ psychological struggles can be resolved only with therapy unexplained mental health struggles. Dr. Bock illuminates the biological underpin- and psychotropic drugs, Dr. Bock’s approach considers the whole-body health of his nings of psychological disorders in kids and offers both reassurance and practical patients. In his integrative evaluations, he often uncovers triggers such as gluten sen- solutions.”—Kris Carr, New York Times Bestselling Author sitivity, adrenal dysfunction, Lyme disease, and post-strep infections—all of which create imbalances in the body that can generate psychological symptoms. Filled with “In this rigorous and helpful book, Dr. Kenneth Bock explains how and why incredible stories from Dr. Bock’s more than thirty years as a practicing physician, young people may be especially vulnerable to neuroinflammation as a result of Brain Inflamed explains the biological underpinnings of many common mental both common viruses and bacteria, as well as lifestyle choices, and provides an health issues, and empowers the parents and family members of struggling teens integrative approach to healing.”—Steven Gundry, MD, New York Times best- with practical advice—and perhaps most importantly, hope for a brighter future. selling author of The Plant Paradoxand The Longevity Paradox

Kenneth A. Bock, M.D. is a board-certified physician who received his MD degree “This accessible, comforting, and illuminating book will offer a lifeline to kids with Honor from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and the best-sell- who are struggling as well as much-needed resources and support for their fami- ing author of several books. lies.”—Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author AEVITAS 5 FIRST STEPS How Upright Walking Made Us Human

By Jeremey DeSilva WE April 2021 / Harper (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Gail Winston Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2020 Rights Sold: Brazilian Portuguese (Alta Books) Korean (Rok Media) Dutch (HarperCollins Holland) Romanian (Grup Media Litera) Hebrew (Matar) Russian (Alpina) Italian (HarperCollins Italy) Simplified Chinese (CITIC) Japanese (Bunshun) Turkish (Íthaki) Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomo- tion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor those who stand tall and proud, and take a stand against injustices. We follow in each other’s footsteps and celebrate a child’s beginning to walk. But why, and how, exactly, did we take our first steps? And at what cost? Bipedalism has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult and dangerous; our running speed is much slower than other animals; and we suffer a variety of ailments, from hernias to sinus problems. InFirst Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very origins of “DeSilva makes a solid scientific case with an expert history of human and ape the human lineage, First Steps shows how upright walking was a gateway to many evolution . . . Accessible, valuable popular anthropology.”—Kirkus Reviews of the other attributes that make us human—from our technological abilities, our thirst for exploration, our use of language–and may have laid the foundation for our “A brisk jaunt through the history of bipedalism . . . DeSilva’s ability to turn an- species’ traits of compassion, empathy, and altruism. Moving from developmental atomical evidence into a focused tale of human evolution and his enthusiasm for psychology labs to ancient fossil sites throughout Africa and Eurasia, DeSilva brings research will leave readers both informed and uplifted.” —Publishers Weekly to life our adventure walking on two legs. Delving deeply into the story of our past and the new discoveries rewriting our understanding of human evolution, First Steps “DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientifically deep stroll through history, examines how walking upright helped us rise above all over species on this planet. anatomy, and evolution, in order to illustrate the powerful story of how a particu- lar mode of movement helped make us one of the most wonderful, dangerous and Jeremy DeSilva is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. He is part of the fascinating species on Earth.” —Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology, research team that discovered and described two ancient members of the human Princeton University and author of Why We Believe: Evolution and the Hu- family tree—Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. man Way of Being

AEVITAS 6 RUNNER’S HIGH How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports By Josiah Hesse NA September 2021 / Putnam (PRH) / US Editor: Michelle Howry Final PDF Available

Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind meets Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run in this immersive, investigative look at the hidden culture of cannabis use among elite athletes (as well as weekend warriors)—and the surprising emerging science behind the elusive, exhilarating “runner’s high” they all seek.

Pot makes exercise fun. The link between performance enhancement and cannabis has been an open secret for many years, so much so that with the wide-sweeping national legalization of cannabis, combining weed and working out has become the hottest new wellness trend.

Why then, is there still a skewed perception around this leafy substance that it only produces the lazy, red-eyed stoner laid out on a couch somewhere, munching on junk food? In fact, scientists have conducted extensive research that uncovers the power of the “runner’s high”--the true holy grail of aerobic activity that was long believed to be caused by endorphins. In an extraordinary reversal, scientists believe marijuana may actually be the key to getting more Americans off their phones and on to their feet.

In Runner’s High, seasoned investigative journalist Josiah Hesse takes readers on a journey through the secret world of stoned athletes, describing astounding, cannabis-inspired physical and mental transformations, just like he experienced. From the economics of the $20 billion CBD market to the inherent inequalities in the enforcement of marijuana prohibition; from the mind-body connection behind Josiah Hesse is an investigative journalist who covers breaking marijuana news, the the “runner’s high” to the best way to make your own cannabis-infused power bars; intersection of marijuana and athletics, politics, economics and culture for pub- Runner’s High takes this groundbreaking science out of the lab and onto the trail, lications including Vice, The Guardian, Politico, Esquire, and for cannabis-specific court, field, and pitch, fundamentally changing the way in which we think about outlets like Ganjapreneur, High Times, Big Buds, The Fix, The Cannabistand The exercise, recovery, and cannabis. Chronic. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

AEVITAS 7 TALENT Identifying Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World By Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross NA October 2021 / St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) / US Editor: Tim Bartlett Edited MS Available Summer 2021

Rights Sold: Complex Chinese (Commonwealth) UK/Comm (Hodder)

In the tradition of evergreen books like Robert Cialdini’s Influence and Kim Scott’s Radical Candor, Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross’s Talent offers strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people...

The ways in which we have traditionally thought about who to hire, grant scholar- ships or award funding to are no longer effective. In Talent, Daniel and Tyler offer practical and strategic tools that any one of us can use to better find an assess talent. Whether you are speaking to a candidate in person or on-line, how best to get them to open up and reveal themselves? They suggest what questions to ask and not to ask, how to get an interviewee to move beyond prepared answers, and how to think about the answers you receive.They also present social science and psychological research that will help you think about such questions as: what kinds of intelligence does this role require? What personality traits are important on the job – and do they change based on the what the job is? (Spoiler alert… they do.) And how can you best evaluate people who are of a different gender, cultural or racial background than you? Tyler Cowen holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in economics at George Mason They also look at when a seeming disability may be an advantage to your organiza- University. He is the author of Discover Your Inner Economist, Create Your Own tion or for the opportunity you have to offer. Rounding out their own experience Economy, the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation, An Economist Get and the research they have done, are the pointers they have gathered from some of Lunch, Average is Over, and a number of academic books. He writes the most read the most respected and well-known names in venture capital – people like Peter economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for Thiel, Marc Andreesen, and Reid Hoffman, among others, who have spent decades The New York Times and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodi- assessing start-up businesses and the people who lead them. In the tradition of cals. bestselling and evergreen books like Robert Cialdini’s Influence and Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, Talent will be a short volume that offers the Daniel Gross is a software entrepreneur who founded Pioneer, an upstart venture most up to date thinking and best practices about spotting, assessing, and wooing capital firm devoted to finding new talent around the world using on-line potential hires. methods, in 2018 when he was 27; he is currently its CEO.

AEVITAS 8 WINNING THE RIGHT GAME SUPERSIGHT How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World How Computer Vision Will Transform the Way You Learn, Shop, Work and Live By Ron Adner WE By David Rose NA October 2021 / MIT Press / US Editor: Emily Taber Fall 2021 / BenBella Books / US Editor: Glenn Yeffeth Edited MS Available Summer 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2021

Rights Sold: Computer vision doesn’t just have the potential to alter the way individual people Brazilian Portuguese (Alta Books) Korean (Rok Media) interact with the world around them; these super-sight technologies hold the power Complex Chinese (CWM) Simplified Chinese (Xiron) to shape entire industries and workplaces. How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for Supersight will reveal how scientists emulate the amazing power of the human eye offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape. to create groundbreaking computer vision applications such as helmets that help firefighters see through smoke, and magic mirrors that offer personalized clothing The basis of competition is changing. Are you prepared? Rivalry is shifting from recommendations based on the season and occasion for which you’re dressing, well-defined industries to broader ecosystems: automobiles to mobility platforms; your specific body type, and current data on the latest fashion trends. It will take banking to fintech; television broadcasting to video streaming. Your competitors readers inside the laboratories, workshops, offices, and playing fields where these are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from those of your emergent technologies are being developed and tested even as it shows both the familiar rivals. In this world, succeeding with the old rules can mean losing the tremendous value—and potentially dire consequences—they are bound to unleash. new game. Winning the Right Game introduces the concepts, tools, and frame- As it explores the amazing tools being developed, implemented, and sold across the works necessary to confront the threat of ecosystem disruption and to develop the country and the world, Supersight will also address some of the worrisome socio- strategies that will let your organization play ecosystem offense. logical and ethical quandaries raised by this rapid progress. How will we ensure that this valuable personal data isn’t abused by marketers or authoritarian govern- To succeed in this world, you need to change your perspective on competition, ments? Adaptive technologies may revolutionize the healthcare industry with new growth, and leadership. In this book, strategy expert Ron Adner offers a new way tools that can diagnose diseases and quickly analyze body scans—but what will of thinking, illustrating breakthrough ideas with compelling cases. How did a strat- that mean for visual pattern experts like radiologists and dermatologists whose jobs egy of ecosystem defense save Wayfair and Spotify from being crushed by giants will become increasingly automated? A thrilling guide for navigating our rapidly Amazon and Apple? How did Oprah Winfrey redraw industry boundaries to tran- changing world. sition from television host to multimedia mogul? How did a shift to an alignment mindset enable Microsoft’s cloud-based revival? Each was rooted in a new approach David Rose is a scientist, technology visionary, and serial entrepreneur. to competitors, partners, and timing that you can apply to your own organization. For today’s leaders the difference between success and failure is no longer simply winning, but rather being sure that you are winning the right game.

Ron Adner is an award-winning professor of strategy at the Tuck School and the author of The Wide Lens.

AEVITAS 9 THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS WHO IS BLACK, AND WHY? The Bordeaux Royal Academy of Science Manuscripts

By Jing Tsu By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew Curran NA WE Fall 2021 / Riverhead (PRH) / US Editor: Courtney Young Fall 2021/ Harvard University Press / US Editor: Sharmila Sen Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2020 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2021

Rights Sold: Italian (Hoepli) In 1739, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best Complex Chinese (Rye Field) Simplified Chinese (CITIC) essay on the subject of the causes of the “blackness” of human beings who originated Dutch (Spectrum) UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Kingdom of Characters follows the bold and cunning innovators who adapted The challenge, which was announced in the internationally distributed Journal the ancient Chinese character-based script to a 20th-century world defined by the des savants, posed the following question: “what is the physical cause of blackness West and its alphabet. It will tell the story of how China was able to transform and African hair, and what is the cause of their degeneration?” The best essay, they itself from a marginalized country into one of the world’s most powerful and ascen- promised, would receive a prestigious prize. Sixteen essays were ultimately dis- dant nations patched to the Bordeaux Academy from all over Europe. While the details of what happened next are unclear, no winner of the competition was ever named. Saved The Kingdom of Characters will chronicle the dramatic events responsible for from oblivion, these unpublished manuscripts (which are in the process of being China’s unexpected linguistic and geopolitical triumph. How China went from translated into English from both the French and the Latin) now constitute the a crumbling empire to a capitalist juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution greatest “focus group” on race ever assembled during the eighteenth century. When that the Chinese script has undergone during that same time period, in large part published, these documents will be of immense use to a wide variety of scholars because the one literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists, mathe- and students interested in the Enlightenment, in the history of race, the history of maticians, and poets risked their careers and reputations, and sometimes their lives, science and medicine, the history of slavery, in genetics and concepts of difference, to tackle profoundly complex technological issues that opened the lines of commu- not to mention their various disciplinary intersections. nication between the East and West and led to a new kind of mutual dependency. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural historian of Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American modern China at Yale University. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in Research at Harvard University, and has hosted the PBS shows Finding Your Roots New Mexico, USA. with Henry Louis Gate Jr. and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities and Profes- sor of French at Wesleyan University, and author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, and The Anatomy of Blackness.

AEVITAS 10 PROJECT TOTAL RECALL BLACK SKINHEAD Donald Trump, Kanye West, and How Black Voters Decided 2020 By Steve Ramirez NA By Brandi Collins-Dexter NA 2022 / Riverhead (PRH) / US Editor: Courtney Young Spring 2022 / Celadon (Macmillan) / US Editor: Ryan Doherty Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021

Rights Sold: Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change and visiting fellow at the Harvard Simplified Chinese (Cheers) Japanese (Bungeishunju) Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center comes the first book in 2021 to analyze the German (DTV) Romanian (SC Publica) pivotal role played by Black voters in the 2020 presidential election. Korean (Gimm-young) Spanish (Paidos) Dutch (Maven) Complex Chinese (Commonwealth) Black Skinhead interrogates the origins of the sometimes unholy alliance between Italian (Cortina) UK/Comm (Robinson) African Americans and the Democratic party, offering an unprecedented analysis of what really caused Black-voter depression in 2016, and will track the cultures and Project Total Recall is a gripping exploration of the new frontier of brain science: subcultures influencing several generations of Black voter turnout in 2020, incor- optogenetics. porating those findings and the election’s outcome into the book, which she will deliver in early 2021. Memories are the windows to our lived-in realities and are what makes us who we are. During Steve Ramirez’s first year of graduate school at MIT in 2012, he and Explored throughout the book will be the curious case of Kanye West, whose song, his colleague Xu Liu turned on a light (a literal light—that’s the “opto” in optoge- “BLKKK SKKKNHEAD,” serves as this book’s title, and whose political trajectory, netics) that would birth a new field of neuroscience: memory manipulation. Now, she argues, exemplifies the fraying bond between Black voters and the Democratic the stuff of sci-fi is becoming scientific fact every other week: we can shoot light establishment. How did the artist who told the nation in 2005 that “George Bush into the brain to modulate neural activity and alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms; we doesn’t care about Black people” end up in the Oval Office in 2018, palling around can turn depression-related symptoms on and off; and, we can view how thoughts with a president largely seen as the savior of White supremacy? What does his are formed in the brain and how they manifest in pathological conditions. evolution say about the growing malcontent of Black voters who have not seen the fruits of their labor for the Democratic party? And how will that malcontent play Project Total Recall is an ultimate insider’s account of cutting-edge neuroscience, out in November? which has launched a full-scale revolution in the way we treat and classify broken brains. The road from President Obama to now demands a much closer look. And Brandi Collins-Dexter has the cultural savvy, the command of facts, and the passion for Steve Ramirez is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and an Assistant Professor change to compel the same readers who supported essential, bestselling titles such of Neuroscience at Boston University, where he is also the principal investigator of as How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Weapons of Math Destruction by the Ramirez Group. His work in artificially manipulating memories has appeared Cathy O’Neil, and Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino. in Science and Nature, and has been covered by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and TIME Magazine. Steve has won numerous teaching and science awards, Brandi Collins-Dexter is Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, the including the Smithsonian Magazine’s “American Ingenuity” award, a Forbes “30 country’s largest racial justice and political organization, and a visiting fellow at Under 30” award, and National Geographic Society’s Emerging Explorer award, the Harvard Kennedy School’sShorenstein Center, one of the foremost academic and he has also delivered a TED talk. institutions releasing cutting edge research on technology, disinformation, and social change. AEVITAS 11 CHANGING GENDER EVER GREEN Transgender History from the 19th Century until Now How to Save Our Biggest Forests to Cool the Warming World By Susan Stryker NA By John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy NA Spring 2022 / FSG (Macmillan) / US Editor: Eric Chinski Spring 2022 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: John Glusman Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021

Rights Sold: Ever Green will be at the front of a new wave of books that move past whether or UK/Commonwealth (Serpent’s Tail) not to take the threat of climate change seriously and onto a concrete, actionable response to the question, What can we do? Set to be the definitive narrative of the transgender movement,Changing Gender brings the vast process to life of the movement through character-driven storytelling The book will introduce a groundbreaking yet overlooked remedy to global and will ignite a new understanding of gender itself. warming: the protection of Earth’s five largest forests and all that comes with them. These areas, called mega-forests, or intact forests, are huge wooded landscapes— For many people, the Transgender Movement first came to their attention earlier each about as big as 50,000 Major League Baseball diamonds—that are relatively this year when 16 million viewers tuned in to watch Caitlyn Jenner’s 20/20 inter- untouched by roads, farms, and industry. They’re located in the Amazon and Con- view with Diane Sawyer. Since then it seems as if there has been an explosion of go, on the island of New Guinea, and in a vast swath far above North America, attention to transgender celebrity culture—from the New York Times’ “Transgender Russia, and Europe. In addition to keeping massive amounts of carbon out of our Today” profiles and Amazon’s Emmy-winning seriesTransparent to the opening of atmosphere, preserving mega-forests will slow our world’s ongoing species extinc- the first transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles. tion and will maintain a critical diversity of human cultures. No other proposed climate change solution can promise these results. Ever Green is an urgent plea for But as Susan writes, this moment didn’t come out of the blue. It is but a thin a major shift in focus, away from small-scale solutions and toward a long-term, veneer that rests atop more than a century of history. Changing Gender will practical antidote to the worsening crisis of our warming world. weave incisive biographical portraits of activists, artists, doctors, scientists, politicians, lawyers, media-makers and everyday citizens into the tapestry of a broader A longtime conservationist and an economist at Nia Tero, John Reid has had his narrative of sweeping social transformation. By the time readers finish Changing writing published in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific Gender, their view of the world they already live in will be utterly transformed. American, and elsewhere.

Susan Stryker earned her Ph.D. in US History from University of Califor- Thomas Lovejoy is a pioneering biologist who coined the term “biodiversity” and nia-Berkeley. is credited with founding the field of climate change biology. He is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and the world’s leading authority on conservation ecology.

AEVITAS 12 RADICAL RADIANCE FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH 12 Self-Love Rituals to Discover Your Authentic Beauty, The Case for Economic Rights Brilliance and Balance By Mark Paul By Angela Jia Kim NA NA Fall 2022 / St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) / US Editor: Daniela Rapp Fall 2022 / University of Chicago Press / US Editor: Chad Zimmerman Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

At one time or another we’ve all felt the opposite of radiant—stressed out, stretched America is the richest country in the world, and despite this—or arguably because thin, imbalanced, or just unhappy. In our unpredictable and downright chaotic of it—our economic inequality is appallingly severe. world of today, it’s easy collapse under the weight of these feelings. And now, more than ever, we also find ourselves spending countless hours in some state of “alone.” Yet, when it comes to solving the enormous problems of our booming economy, During this time, we have a unique opportunity to examine who we truly are, both we’ve been thinking small. We water down the desire for healthcare for all to what’s inside and out, and ask ourselves: do we like what we see? left of the Affordable Care Act (i.e. not much). We talk about fighting the existen- tial crisis of global warming with a modest carbon tax. In short, we’ve attempted As founder and CEO of Savor Beauty + Spa, Angela Jia Kim has been studying to keep a cruise liner from sinking by jamming a finger into the leak.We need to and perfecting inner and outer beauty her whole life – first as a concert pianist, think big, to think different, and that’s where this book comes in. then at the helm of the Savor Beauty +Spa brand, where her organic skin products, “Manifest Method” workshops, and her runaway bestselling Savor Beauty Self-Care Freedom Is Not Enough picks up where the New Deal left off in 1944, with FDR’s Planner, have helped to transform and inspire women everywhere. True beauty, then-radical proposal to expand the Bill of Rights. By guaranteeing a handful according to Angela, is what she calls “radical radiance” and is the illumination of of new liberties, he argued, we would provide Americans with not only a politi- your most authentic self that shines from every pore of your being: your skin, your cal safety net but a sorely needed economic one. Rather than ensuring freedom eyes, your smile, your actions, the way you live, and who you are. T from—from the government’s censorship of free speech or its interference in one’s right to bear arms—as the original Bill of Rights did, the new, additional rights This is the Savor Beauty skincare philosophy—it’s about getting to the root of who would ensure freedom to—to gainful employment, a good education, breathable you truly are and doing the deep inner work necessary for your authentic self to air and drinkable water. FDR’s proposal never took hold, but it lived on in the radiate and thrive. Angela has created an innovative self-care program that allows wake of his death, gained strength from the support of civil rights leaders like Mar- the reader to hone their inner and outer beauty with twelve simple rituals, which tin Luther King, Jr., and others, and finally burst into the realm of possibility with can either be followed routinely like a guided course or explored individually as Senator Bernie Sanders’ landmark presidential campaign in 2016. needed. Each ritual will allow the reader to target an important area that needs improvement such as the ability to live authentically, to manifest what they want, Mark contributed significantly to the Sanders campaign, and many of its tent-pole or to achieve flow and resilience, and through self-care exercises, thought-provok- ideas originated in Mark’s work. In this book, he’ll expand on those ideas, in one ing questions, Radiant Beauty rituals, and more that Angela has employed success- place, for the first time. Freedom Is Not Enough will be the blueprint for how to fully in her workshops and bestselling planner, Radical Radiance will teach readers make our politics, economy, and society into a fairer, more equitable, more sustain- step-by-step how they can find their true inner beauty and live a life filled with able ecosystem. radiance, magic, and happiness. Mark Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at Angela Jia Kim is the founder of the multimillion dollar skincare brand, Savor New College of Florida and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. His writing has Beauty + Spa. A highly recognized skin and self-care expert, Angela has been fea- been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the tured in The New York Times, Elle, Goop, Glamour, Allure, and Well+Good. Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere. AEVITAS 13 THE RISE OF THE MAMMALS RECOVERY What Mental Health Care Gets Wrong and How We Can Make It Right By Steve Brusatte NA By Dr. Thomas R. Insel NA Fall 2022 / William Morrow / US Editor: Peter Hubbard Fall 2022 / Penguin Press (PRH) / US Editor: Ginny Smith Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Summer 2022

Rights Sold: Recovery begins with a description of our mental health crisis, moves on to reveal Russian (Alpina) solutions to this crisis, and ends with a sense of hope and a call to action. After the international bestselling success of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, The narrative follows individuals and their families struggling to make sense of which was named ‘Science Book of the Year’ by the Times, this new book will pick mental illness and is propelled by a series of simple questions that confounded up where Dinosaurs left off, using a similar energetic, first-person style to tell the them and that vexed Dr. Insel as he tried to understand how we have failed to story of mammal evolution and will function as the bridge between The Rise and make more progress in this field: How can there be so little access to meaningful Fall of the Dinosaurs and Sapiens. care when there are more mental health providers than there are providers in any other medical specialty? If more people are getting more care and there are better Publishers of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: medications, why are we seeing worse outcomes? And why is this crisis so un- Canadian French (Editions Quebec Amerique) Korean (Woongjin ThinkBig) der-recognized and refractory to any solution? Complex Chinese (Marco Polo) Polish (ZNAK)

Brazilian Portuguese (Record) Portuguese (Contraponto) Recovery argues for a fundamentally new approach. We need to understand mental Bulgarian (Ciela) Romanian (Editura Art) illness as a medical problem, but also know that the solution to the mental health Dutch (Ambo Anthos) Russian (Alpina) crisis is social and relational: not more medications, but more family, more com- Estonian (Aripaev) Spanish (PRH Spain) munity, more inclusion, and more hope. Responding to mental illness with social French (Editions Quanto) Simplified Chinese (United Sky) solutions, whether those are online or face-to-face is not only the most effective German (Piper) Thai (Bookscape) treatment; it is straightforward, achievable, and scalable. Moreover, approaching Hungarian (Park Könyvkiadó) Turkish (Koc University Press) the problem this way also strikes at the root of major societal challenges such as Italian (UTET) UK/Comm (Macmillan UK) homelessness and isolation. It brings together the power of medicine and commu- Japanese (Misuzu) nities to create sweeping impact. Tom Insel charts the way to put Recovery within everyone’s reach. Tom have seen people with mood and anxiety disorders, with Stephen L. Brusatte is a paleontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoScienc- developmental disorders, and with psychotic disorders recover, if the right psycho- es at the University of Edinburg in Scotland. logical and medical treatments are given early along with optimal supportive care. And by “recover,” he means something more than an abatement of symptoms. Real recovery means the ability to shape meaningful lives, and selves, not entirely defined by mental illness.

Dr. Thomas R. Insel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is currently Execu- tive Chair and Co-Founder of NEST Health in California. He served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health beginning in 2002, then in 2015 led a mental health team at Google’s emerging life science company, Verily; and, after launch, went on to co-found Mindstrong Health. AEVITAS 14 TINDERBOX AMERICAN RESISTANCE India’s Slide Towards Turmoil The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Deep State and their Fight to Defend the Country from Its President By Sadanand Dhume NA By David Rothkopf WE Fall 2022 / Yale University Press / US Editor: Jaya Chatterjee Fall 2022 / Public Affairs / US Editor: Clive Priddle Proposal Available — Edited MS Summer 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Rights Sold: Even before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, senior UK/Comm (HarperCollins UK) officials met quietly to discuss whether he posed a threat to the country. Loyal, long-serving public servants asked themselves questions they had never had to ask A brilliant, 60,000 word book on India that promises to become the next big book themselves before about how and whether to share classified information with him on the world’s largest democracy. and what they should do if they receive an order that violated their oaths of office.

Like Ed Luce’s In Spite of the Gods and Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City, and books A fault line between the President and vital forces within his government was like Evan Osnos’s Age of Ambition, Tinderbox profiles a country at a moment established. Those who honored their oath of office were wary of the president and of monumental change as it faces the potential for either great leaps forward or they in turn were not trusted. When they became particularly threatening, they catastrophic mistakes. Dhume uses masterful writing, unforgettable characters and were fired and replaced with loyalists. What began as a divide around the issues original reported stories – like the dynamic and dangerous Yogi-politician in Uttar raised by Trump’s relationship with the Russians during and after the campaign Pradesh featured in the proposal’s sample chapter – to challenge the convention- triggered new fissures that spread like cracks in a piece of shattering glass. al view of India by arguing that strident Hindu nationalism, sluggish economic growth and fraying democratic institutions threaten the future of the world’s larg- Across the government a resistance campaign emerged. The stories of their interest democracy, and as result, the rest of the world. We hope that Tinderbox will be nal struggles with this extraordinary situation, their largely principled conclusions published in 2022, to coincide with 75 years of Indian independence. about how to proceed, and the degree to which they helped preserve the country from damage done by a disloyal, corrupt president are dramatic and inspiring. Sadanand Dhume is the South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a American Resistance will be the first book to tell that story, the first book to chroni- resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes about India regular- cle the unprecedented role so many in the government were forced to play and the ly for leading U.S. publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and consequences of their actions. It will be told in human terms, capturing the threat Foreign Policy, and appears regularly on U.S. and international TV and radio as an Trump and those around him posed, the risks undertaken by those who resisted expert on India and South Asia. it, how they resisted, whether they succeeded or failed and what the human and professional costs were for them and what the institutional costs were for the US government. American Resistance will answer those questions through extensive interviews and reporting—of at least 100 key individuals both familiar and unfamil- iar. Until now, telling their stories has been impossible because they feared—with good reason—recrimination and punishment. But now, we can begin to tell those stories, appreciate their achievements and understand their implications.

David Rothkopf was the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration. He is CEO of the Foreign Policy Group, a prolific author and journalist, and co-host of the Deep State Radio podcast. AEVITAS 15 APOCALYPSE WEATHERING Rediscovering Our Past and Surviving Our Future The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society By Lizzie Wade WE By Dr. Arline T. Geronimus WE Spring 2023 / HarperCollins / US Editor: Gail Winston Spring 2023 / Little, Brown (Hachette) / US Editor: Tracy Behar Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Rights Sold: Rights Sold: Finnish (Bazar) Simplified Chinese (Dook) UK/Comm (Virago) Korean (Gimm-Young) Spanish (Planeta) Over 30 years ago, Arline coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of Polish (Marginesy) Swedish (Verbal Forlag) systemic oppression—including racism and classism—upon the body. It refers not Romanian (Grup Media) only to how life in America erodes the health of people of color and poor people, but Apocalypse is in the air. The climate is changing, and it’s too late to stop it. Crops to how they resist such erosion. To weather and be weathered is to withstand the will fail, freshwater will become scarce, while storms and fires grow ever more pow- challenges and insults that our society leverages at those who are marginalized. erful, and cities sink under rising waters. Millions will be driven from their homes, sparking violent conflicts and war. The country is waking up to what Black Americans have known for centuries and what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice—not Against that backdrop, Apocalypse offers surprisingly good news: We’ve been here just in the form of racist cops, but in the form of everyday life—takes a physical, before. History is long, and people in the past have confronted just about every too often deadly toll on Black, brown, and poor communities. Marginalized Amer- apocalypse we’re facing today, from plagues to the extinctions, and they made it icans are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger out to the other side. We will, too. Appealing to fans of Jared Diamond’s Collapse ages than their middle- and upper-class white counterparts. Black mothers die and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, Apocalypse seeks to change how readers think during childbirth at a rate three times higher than white mothers. And the current about human history, reframing it as a series of crises and cataclysms, from the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown these disparities into even starker relief. In the rise of Homo sapiens in our deep past to the Syrian civil war in our present. It will course of her long and distinguished career, Arline has conducted over 70 studies tell the real stories of past apocalypses, using cutting-edge science to illuminate that support the weathering model. In Weathering she will draw on that research them in all their complexity. Even in the worst of times, people had choices. They to make the case that weathering is a quantifiable phenomenon, then offer a range moved, they adapted, they changed. They survived. of solutions for addressing the inequities that characterize life, death, and health in Apocalypse will also serve as an introduction to archaeology in the field’s most excit- America. Arline has crossed disciplines to track weathering down to the molecular ing time. This book will stretch beyond the story of a single culture to grab readers level; she has devoted just as much effort to documenting the human stories of interested in the science of archaeology as a whole. It seeks to impart a sense of weathered populations. Her work encompasses both authoritative statistical analy- wonder about past civilizations based on new and revolutionary science. All of ses and vivid, in-depth observation of and interviews with local communities. This these past apocalypses have set us on the road to where we are now; modernity has will allow her to chronicle weathering through the voices of those who experience been built, brick by brick, out of endless end times. Our current world is just one, it most severely. Natural models for Weathering include Bessel van der Kolk’s The imperfect, already post-apocalyptic option among many ways of being. To un- Body Keeps the Score and Elizabeth Blackburn’s and Elissa Epel’s The Telomere Effect. derstand who we are and where we came from, we need to understand those past Dr. Arline T. Geronimus is a professor at University of Michigan’s School of Pub- disasters and how they shaped everything that came after, for better and for worse. lic Health and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She has served as a consultant for President Obama’s Health Care Advisory Committee, the US Civil Lizzie Wade is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for Science, cover- Rights Commission, the MacArthur Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Ford ing archaeology, anthropology, and Latin America. Foundation, among many others. AEVITAS 16 VIRAL JUSTICE UNTITLED ON AI How We Grow the World We Want How to Be Human in the Age of AI

By Ruha Benjamin By Ayanna Howard WE NA Spring 2023 / Princeton University Press / US Editor: Megan Levinson Spring 2023 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: Quynh Doh, John Glusman Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022

Appealing to readers of Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Anti-Racist by and Tressie Rights Sold: Korean (Kachi) McMillan Cottom’s Thick And Other Essays, Viral Justice is an antiracist book about our dreams, reckoning with the fact that most people are forced to live inside Drawing on cutting-edge research, and her own experience as one of the few Black someone else’s imagination. women in the field of robotics, Ayanna shares how she navigated bias in her own coming-of-age as a roboticist. She also reveals how the world of computer program- Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice offers a micro-theory of change that mers, which largely lacks women and Black people, is producing thinking machines requires each of us to individually confront how we participate in unjust systems, that too often think like their flawed creators. even when “in theory” we stand for justice. It elaborates a practical and principled approach to spreading solidarity and wellbeing in the long-term, drawing upon Sex, Race & Robots explores how the tech world’s racial and gender biases are infect- historic and ongoing examples of mutual aid and collective healing; transforming ing the next generation of AI, for fans of Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruc- our world little by little, day by day. tions and Martin Ford’s Rise of the Robots.

Viral Justice questions the distinction between macro and micro, big and small, Governments are using supercomputers to track COVID-19 patients. AI is being because all the great transformations that societies undergo rely on the everyday employed to monitor Black Lives Matter protests. Voice recognition systems have scheming of everyday people. Whether people are tearing down concrete monu- been rolled out that can’t hear female voices. Ayanna delivers a stirring warning ments or overturning racist symbols and policies, it’s hard to deny that something about the risks of AI and robots - but also offers an uplifting message about em- different is in the air, and it seems to be contagious. If this virus is teaching us powerment and where we need to go next. anything, it’s that something almost undetectable can be deadly, and that we can transmit it without even knowing. As Ruha offers, doesn’t this imply that small Ayanna’s Sex, Race & Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI has just been things, seemingly minor actions, decisions, and habits could have exponential released as an Audible Original—topping the Audible charts—which is the inspi- effects in the other direction, tipping the scales toward justice? ration for the book version. We’re eager to expand Sex, Race & Robots into a short or full-length trade book at a time when the dangers of bias in our AI-powered To that end, this book calls for as many varieties of justice as can possibly be machines has never been greater. imagined. Whether you’re the explicit target or not, inequality makes us all sick. Blunt and buoyant, Viral Justice is distinctive in its historical grounding, sociolog- Dr. Ayanna Howard is an innovator, entrepreneur, leader, and international expert ical sweep, moral clarity, and vivifying call to action, offering readers a powerful in robotics and AI. Currently, Ayanna is Professor and Chair of the School of In- prescription for change. teractive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Partnership on AI and Autodesk. Ayanna is a frequent Ruha Benjamin is a tenured professor of African American studies at Princeton speaker and media expert source for venues such as CNN and NPR. She has also University and the Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, which been featured in various interviews, profiles, and podcasts hosted by places like draws together scholars, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative ap- Vanity Fair, PBS, Discovery Channel, BBC, Fox News, Huffington Post, and VIBE. proach to data and technology, and a recipient of the Freedom Scholars Award. AEVITAS 17 IT’S ALL TALK How Verbal Tics Shape Who We Are, And Who We Want To Be By Dr. Valerie Fridland NA Spring 2023 / Viking (PRH) / US Editor: Terezia Cicel Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Rights Sold: Korean (Gimm-Young) A lively, optimistic, and deeply intelligent guide to the way we speak and why.

A charming mix of irreverence and expertise, It’s All Talk argues that our tics are our tells. It weaves together history, psychology, science, and cheeky anecdotes to reveal how the way we talk, rather than the content of what we say, shapes our social, professional, and romantic success. Through an examination of culture, geography, social distance, and gender, it reveals how unwritten social dynamics dictate our language structures and word choices. How language structures and word choices shape our conception of the world. And how our conception of the world determines our place within it. By exploring the dark corners every English teacher has taught us to avoid, it goes beyond the traditional grammar book to contend that our most popular and pilloried linguistic quirks are more important to who we are than oxford commas, dangling modifiers, or split infinitives. And that once we understand this, we can interrogate our own biases and speech patterns to become more open, persuasive, and powerful people.

At a time when our linguistic style matters more than our clothing, our deodor- ant, or even our power poses, this book will speak to anyone who has come to rely on Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, cellphones, or other disembodied forms of communication. In other words, it will speak to anyone who talks—and who cares about how they sound. This includes students in high school, college, and graduate school; professionals looking to get a date, a job, or a raise; and anyone hoping to better connect across generational or social divides. How we talk directly impacts how we’re perceived, which is why we aspire for this book to be the linguistic response to Presence by Amy Cuddy or The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane.

Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Socio- phonetics by Cambridge University Press. She also writes for Psychology Today. AEVITAS 18 UPCOMING MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES FIERCE POISE Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

By Alexander Nemerov NA March 2021 / Penguin Press (PRH) Final PDF Available

A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York.

At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade’s end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education. She also experienced anew—and left her mark on—the city in which she had been raised in privilege as the daughter of a judge, even as she left the security of that world to pursue her artistic ambitions.

Brought to vivid life by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov, these defining moments—from her first awed encounter with Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings to her first solo gallery show to her tumultuous breakup with eminent art critic Clem- ent Greenberg—comprise a portrait as bold and distinctive as the painter herself. In- spired by Pollock and the other male titans of abstract expressionism but committed to charting her own course, Frankenthaler was an artist whose talent was matched “The magic of [...] Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen’s paintings. His only by her unapologetic determination to distinguish herself in a man’s world. poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York’s 1950s art scene and a brilliant yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her. after this story begins, we are only now beginning to understand.” —Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at “Pairing vivid anecdotal biography with energetic descriptive analysis, the author Stanford University. recalibrates our perception of Frankenthaler’s undulating and entrancing canvas- es, on which she channeled in-the-moment feelings and celebrated the ‘beauty “An exquisite blend of biography and criticism that excavates Helen Frankenthaler’s and power and glory’ of life. With reverence and irreverent wit, nimble narration, creative beginnings. Every page sparks with Alexander Nemerov’s deep knowledge pertinent art history, and a vibrant cast of characters, Nemerov chronicles the first and insights into the everyday exaltations and terrors of making art of any kind, at round in Frankenthaler’s extraordinary artistic adventure.” —Booklist any time.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster AEVITAS 20 BEAUTIFUL THINGS A Memoir

By Hunter Biden NA April 2021 / Gallery Books (S&S) / US Editor: Aimee Bell Final PDF Available Upon Publication

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“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.

When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life. “This is an astonishingly candid and brave book about loss, human frailty, wayward souls and hard-fought redemption [...] so concise, so unflinching and propulsive, Hunter Biden is a lawyer and an artist. A graduate of Georgetown University and that outside of turning the pages and occasionally picking my jaw off the ground, I Yale Law School, Hunter has worked as an advocate on behalf of Jesuit universities, didn’t move between the first page and the last.”—Dave Eggers, New York Times and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including as vice chairman bestselling author of The Circle and The Captain and the Glory of Amtrak and chairman of the board of World Food Program USA. The son of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter is the father of three daughters: Naomi, Finnegan, and Mai- “Hunter Biden writes beautifully of almost unsurvivable loss, and the amazing sy. He lives with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and their son, Beau, in California. grace of family love. [...] He writes about growing up Biden, his marriages, his father’s years with Obama, his own successes and failures, his work with the World “In AA we say it doesn’t matter if you come from Yale or jail, all addicts are the Food Program and Burisma, his visits to refugee camps and crack houses. He same. In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves writes of his savage alcoholism and addiction with rare honesty, of his recovery again that anybody—even the son of a United States president—can take a ride on with stunned gratitude, of broken hearts, resurrection, beautiful things.” the pink horse down nightmare alley. Biden remembers it all and tells it all with a —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird and Almost bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous.”—Stephen King Everything AEVITAS 21 THE SPARE ROOM Define Your Social Legacy to Live a More Intentional Life and Lead with Authentic Purpose By Emily Chang WE April 2021 / Post Hill Press / US Editor: Debra Englander Final PDF Available

Define your own Social Legacy, unlock the power to live a more intentional life, and lead with greater purpose and authenticity.

Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she’s lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected or marginalized, to find sanctuary in her spare room. Among her deeply personal accounts, Emily shares heart-wrenching stories of an emotionally abused child bride, a dying eighteen-month old boy born with hydrocephalus, and the abused daughter of a local prostitute.

With the sixteen young people she and her family have cared for, Emily has found that living into her Social Legacy has not only deeply enriched her home life, it has also enabled her to become a more authentic and relatable leader in the workplace. Each time she opened the door to her spare room, Emily found herself in a front row seat, witnessing one of life’s incredible stories unfold. Integrating work and life, she introduced her spare room kids to colleagues and encourages her team members “Filled with positivity in the midst of a changing, complex world, this book weaves to invest in their own Social Legacies. a narrative of inspiring stories and practical advice. The Spare Roomis a lighthouse in today’s storm...a call to action for anyone seeking to live a more intentional, Now more than ever, social purpose has become an urgent leadership imperative. purposeful life.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global The Spare Room will help you identify your Social Legacy to live a more intentional life and lead with authentic purpose. “Emily Chang understands the power of the magic wand each one of us has when we pay attention to other people’s feelings, and her wonderful book, The Emily Chang is currently the CEO for McCann Worldgroup, China, and previ- Spare Room, is a testimony of that! A must-read to open our hearts!”—Diane von ously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks, China, and the Chief Furstenberg Commercial Officer for InterContinental Hotels group, Greater China. Earlier in her career, she led Retail Marketing for Apple in Asia-Pacific and began her career “Emily Chang boldly swings open the door to her family’s life stories, welcoming with eleven years at Procter & Gamble. She is an action-oriented visionary known us into her private world in order to shine a public light on today’s need for social- for cross-cultural team engagement, innovative brand building, and authentic peo- ly purposeful leaders with hearts of hospitality.”—Horst Schulze, cofounder of ple leadership. Ritz-Carlton and author of “Excellence Wins” AEVITAS 22 NOTHING PERSONAL My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

By Nancy Jo Sales NA May 2021 / Hachette / US Editor: Mauro DiPreta Final PDF Available

A raw and funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with a brilliant investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps, by firebrandNew York Times bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales.

At 49, famed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales was nursing a broken heart and won- dering, “How did I wind up alone?” On the advice of a young friend, she down- loaded Tinder, then a brand new dating app. What followed was a raucous ride through the world of online dating. Sales, an award-winning journalist and single mom, became a leading critic of the online dating industry, reporting and writing articles and making her directorial debut with the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. Meanwhile, she was dating a series of younger men, eventually falling in love with a younger man less than half her age.

Nothing Personal is Sales’ memoir of coming-of-middle-age in the midst of a new dating revolution. She is unsparingly honest about her own experience of addiction to dating apps and hilarious in her musings about dick pics, sexting, dating FOMO, and more. Does Big Dating really want us to find love, she asks, or just keep on using its apps? Nancy Jo Sales is the New York Times bestselling author of American Girls: So- Fiercely feminist, Nothing Personal investigates how Big Dating has overwhelmed cial Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers and The Bling Ring: How a Gang of the landscape of dating, cynically profiting off its users’ deepest needs and desires. Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World. She is also the Looking back through the history of dating, and her own relationships, Sales exam- director, producer, and writer of the documentary film, Swiped: Hooking Up in ines how sexism has always been a factor for women in dating, and asks what the the Digital Age. Her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The future of courtship will bring, if left to the designs of Silicon Valley’s tech giants-es- Guardian, and many other publications. Known for her stories on teenagers, social pecially in a time of social distancing and a global pandemic, when the rules of media, and fame culture, she is the recipient of a 2010 Mirror Award, a 2011 Front dating are once again changing. Page Award, and a 2015 Silurian Award. She lives in New York City.

AEVITAS 23 PROOF OF LIFE Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East By Daniel Levin NA May 2021 / Algonquin / US Editor: Amy Gash Final PDF Available

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Daniel Levin was at his office when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man had gone missing in Syria. No government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. Could he? Would he?

So begins a suspenseful, shocking, and at times brutal true story of one man’s search to find a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin, a lawyer turned armed-conflict negotiator, uses his extensive contacts to chase leads throughout the Middle East, meeting with powerful sheikhs, drug lords, and sex traffickers in his pursuit of the truth. He also discovers remarkable people who retain their essential goodness and spirit in the face of adversity.

In Proof of Life, Levin dives deep into a shadowy world where few have access—an underground industry of war where everything is for sale, including arms, drugs, and even people. He offers a fascinating study of how people use leverage to get what they want from one another and where no one does a favor without wanting something in return, whether it’s immediately or years down the road. “Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and Proof of Life is a fast-paced thriller wrapped in a memoir, a must-read for anyone despair.”—Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, interested in power dynamics, international affairs, the Middle East, or our growing Fast and Slow number of forever wars. “In laying bare the raw human toll of the ferocious and cruel Syrian conflict, Proof Currently a board member of the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, of Life asks the reader to make a choice between cynicism and compassion.” Daniel Levin has, for the past twenty years, worked with governments and devel- —Ayaan Hirsi Ali, New York Times bestselling author of Infidel opment institutions worldwide, focusing on economic development and political reform through financial literacy, political inclusion, and constitutional initiatives. “From the first to final page, I couldn’t stop reading. Proof of Life is a penetrating He is also engaged in track 3 diplomacy and mediation efforts in war zones. Levin’s portrait of how the Middle East operates through webs of power that dehumanize first book,Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful, was published in all but a special few. Compelling!” Germany, Japan, Russia, and the UK. —Karen Elliott House, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of On Saudi Arabia

AEVITAS 24 BRAT An 80s Story

By Andrew McCarthy NA May 2021 / Grand Central (Hachette) / US Editor: Suzanne O’Neill Final PDF Available

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Fans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member.

Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, Weekend at Bernie’s, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hol- lywood’s Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture.

In his memoir Brat: An ‘80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. “Soulful and searching . . . McCarthy’s prose shines with intelligence and intimacy . . . A long, strange trip on the direction of full-throttle love.” Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with —Cheryl Strayed, New York Times Book Review John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success. “McCarthy ponders some of the biggest and most frightening questions surrounding intimacy: How does a loner connect? How does a traveler settle down? How do Since starring in the movies he recounts throughout Brat, Andrew McCarthy has we merge into families without losing ourselves? There is much to be learned, and become a director, an award-winning travel writer, and a bestselling author. He has much to be admired, in this elegant, thoughtful story.” directed more than eighty hours of television, including Orange in the New Black, —Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love The Blacklist, Gossip Girl, and many others. For a dozen years he served as editor at large at National Geographic Traveler, and his award-winning travel writing has ap- “Combining the best aspects of Paul Theroux’s misanthropy in books likeOld peared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and elsewhere. He is the author Patagonian Express and Elizabeth Gilbert’s emotions in Eat, Pray, Love, this book is a travel memoir, The Longest Way Home, and a young-adult novel, Just Fly Away— hard to put down. Bound to be popular, this compelling and honest chronicle will both New York Times bestsellers. not disappoint readers.” —Library Journal AEVITAS 25 HOUSE OF STICKS A Memoir

By Ly Tran NA June 2021 / Scribner (S&S) / US Editor: Valerie Steiker, Sally Howe Final PDF Available

An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations.

Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Ly’s father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade as a POW, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers sewing ties and cummerbunds piece-meal on their living room floor to make ends meet.

As they navigate this new landscape, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents’ Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood, working long hours at home and eventually as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brownsville, Brooklyn, that her parents take over. But at school, Ly feels the mounting pressure to blend in. “House of Sticks is a vibrant reminder of the ferocious courage it takes to love and A growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges, especially when to be loved, and how that courage is the first step toward finding your place in the her father forbids her from getting glasses, calling her diagnosis of poor vision a gov- world.” —Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone ernment conspiracy. His frightening temper and paranoia leave an indelible mark on Ly’s sense of self. Who is she outside of everything her family expects of her? “On the landscape of nail salons and her family’s sweat shop, Tran paints the songs of her courage, dreams, and her fight for sanity and humanity. This is the story of a Told in a spare, evocative voice that, with flashes of humor, weaves together her magnificent lotus who rises up from a pond of mud – the mud of poverty, racism, family’s immigration experience with her own fraught and courageous coming of inherited trauma, depression – with the power and radiance of her storytelling.” age, House of Sticks is a timely and powerful portrait of one girl’s struggle to reckon — Nguyen Phan Que Mai, PhD, bestselling author of The Mountains Sing with her heritage and forge her own path. “Like Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, this book is a record of resilience. A story Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University in 2014 with a degree in Creative about finding a place in America and about finding a voice, Ly Tran’s House of Writing and Linguistics. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, Sticks is destined to join the canon of refugee literature.” and Yaddo. House of Sticks is her first book. —Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana AEVITAS 26 THE BIG HURT A Memoir

By Erika Schickel NA August 2021 / Hachette Books / US Editor: Lauren Marino Final PDF Available

A memoir of growing up in a fractured, literary family, being seduced by a teacher, kicked out of boarding school, and then doing it all over again in middle age.

In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from the highly prestigious Buxton boarding school in the Berkshires for sleeping with a teacher. She was that girl--the pretty, precocious one who got seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal. But Erika’s provocative, searing, and often funny memoir, The Big Hurt, asks the question, What really happens to that girl in the aftermath? Schickel came of age in the 1970s, the angsty progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for Time magazine and Julia Whedon, a romantic, disappointed novelist. After her parents’ divorce in 1976, Erika was dumped in a bohemian boarding school and left to navigate the world more or less alone.

The Big Hurt tells two stories: a girl coming of age unsupervised, her seduction and expulsion from school which led to decades of self-loathing, an insatiable desire for an all-consuming love, and an overwhelming feeling of guilt. The second is how that girl, grown into middle age, reenacted that trauma with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.The Big Hurt looks at a legacy of female pain handed down a maternal bloodline and the ”I picked up Erika Schickel’s memoir and the world disappeared for the next two cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines a light on the Manhattan haute culture class and days. I was transported and consumed by Schickel’s hypnotic unspooling of her the atmosphere of neglect in the 1970s and ‘80s that made girls grow up too fast. troubled, sexed-up adolescence and the way the legacy of that time followed her It looks at the long shadow cast by great, monstrously self-absorbed literary lives like a black dog into midlife. Beautifully written, intensely relatable, and fueled by and the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the cork incendiary fury and love, The Big Hurt belongs on the shelf with a small number board of male ego. The Big Hurt shows how one woman survived abuse and neglect, of memoirs that rearranged my world-view and maybe even a few of my cells. I survived her own scandals to claim her creative voice and repair the legacy of “hurt” loved this book.”—Claire Dederer, author of Love and Trouble in her family tree so that her own daughters might grow up free of it. “The Big Hurt fulfills the promise of which too many memoirs fall short: it takes Erika Schickel has been a regular book critic and op-ed contributor for the LA the vagaries and vicissitudes of the human heart and elevates them to the level of Times and her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, social, even political, inquiry. Erika Schickel is not just an interrogator of her own LA City Beat, LA Observed.com, Bust Magazine, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, psyche but an interpreter of the times--the current era as well as the decades that The Chicago Tribune and more. Her literary writing has been anthologized and pub- led us here.”—Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything lished by City Lights Books, Seal Press, Red Hen Press, Anthem Journal, and Tin House. AEVITAS 27 HORSE GIRLS Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond

Edited by Halimah Marcus NA August 2021 / Harper Perennial (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Sarah Stein Edited MS Available

A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural back- grounds.

As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media—Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion.

Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases “More than a fun romp through gorgeous prose by some of our finest contempo- powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her rary writers, Horse Girls is a sublime exploration of the ways horses bring together Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black the physical and the spiritual; the masculine and the feminine. Funny, earnest, sexy barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence and unexpected, this is a book to read by flashlight and pass around to all your old on horse culture in Pakistan. By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls friends.” reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, —Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domesti- cation and wildness. “A stunning, bountiful collection that brims with feeling and insight, these essays lead us boldly through the intricacies of a longstanding cultural myth, taking wild Halimah Marcus’s short stories and essays have appeared in One Story, BOMB, turns that vividly exemplify the ineffable yet inextricable bond between human The Literary Review, Amazon Original Stories, the Out There podcast, Indiana Review, and animal. Set aside your preconceptions and let go of your stereotypes, because Gulf Coast, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is the executive director equine lover or not, Horse Girls will surely knock you off your feet.” of Electric Literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the —Meredith Talusan, author of Fairest editor-in-chief of its weekly fiction magazine,Recommended Reading. AEVITAS 28 YOU HAD ME AT PET NAT A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir

By Rachel Signer NA October 2021 / Hachette / US Editor: Lauren Marino Final PDF Available

A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion — and falling in love — by the publisher of Pipette Magazine.

It was Rachel Signer’s dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a touch of horse mane. Instead she was an under-appreciated freelance journalist and waitress in New York City, frustrated at always being broke and completely miserable in love. When she tastes her firstpétillant-naturel (pét-nat for short), a type of natural wine made with no additives or chemicals, it sets her on a journey of self-discovery, both deeply personal and professional, that leads her to Paris, Italy, Spain, Georgia, and finally deep into the wilds of south Australia and which forces her, in the face of her “Wildman,” to ask herself the hard question: can she really handle the unconventional life she claims she truly wants?

Have you ever been sidetracked by something that turned into a career path? Did you ever think you were looking for a certain kind of romantic partner, but fell in love with someone wild, passionate and with a completely different life? For Signer, the discovery of natural wine became an introduction to a larger ethos and authority on natural wine, who has written for such publications as Wine Enthu- philosophy that she had long craved: one rooted in egalitarianism, diversity, organ- siast, PUNCH, Wine & Spirits, Vogue.com, VICE Munchies, and others. She is also ics, environmental concerns, and ancient traditions. In You Had Me at Pét-Nat, as the founder and publisher of Pipette magazine, an independent natural wine-fo- Signer begins to truly understand these revolutionary wine producers upending the cused print magazine, published every 4 months, sold in over 20 countries via industry, their deep commitment to making their wine with integrity and with as independent book and wine shops and has been featured recently in the New York little intervention as possible, she is smacked with the realization that unless she Times. faces, head-on, her own issues with commitment, she will not be able to live a life that is as freewheeling, unpredictable, and singular as the wine she loves. “From Paris to Australia, Signer takes us on a gripping journey to reclaim her sense of self through the medium of the natural wine she loves so much. You Had Me at Rachel Signer is currently based in Australia, where she and her husband, Anton Pét-Nat is a reminder of the importance of rebirth, the restorative power of love, Von Klopper, make a limited production of Lucy Margaux and Persephone Wines, and the invigorating gifts of nature. A must read for bon vivants and explorers which are found in select wine shops, bars, and restaurants around the world. Signer alike.”—Victoria James, author of Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and regularly stays for long periods in Europe, visiting natural winemakers and hosting Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier events. Signer is a widely-published, internationally known journalist and AEVITAS 29 MY BODY By Emily Ratajkowski NA October 2021 /Metropolitan Books (Macmillan) / US Editor: Sara Bershtel Edited MS Available Summer 2021

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A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.

Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political pro- gressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book.

My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men’s treatment of women and women’s rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt “Emily has captured—with the acuity of an early Joan Didion investigating the for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and culture of California—the complicated terrain of having a body people want to the grey area between consent and abuse. sell and having her own agenda she refuses to give up. Her prose is by turns honey smooth and vicious, uproarious and wounded. She knows the pain that lives in Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer every woman and she isn’t afraid to link arms and say she’s been there, and that it brimming with courage and intelligence. hurts. This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer. She has impulses. It left me much changed.” —Lena Dunham starred in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, among other films. Ratajkowski has also “These powerful essays mark a blazing, unexpected literary debut. Emily Ratajkow- appeared on the covers of multiple magazines and walked the runway for numerous ski interrogates beauty, sex, power, objectification, fame, and betrayal—both by self high fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York magazine, “Buying Myself Back,” and other—with lucidity and scorched-earth honesty. I read these pages, breathless garnered over one million views within twenty-four hours, was hailed as a landmark, with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is.” and was the magazine’s most-read piece of the year. My Body is her first book. —Dani Shapiro

AEVITAS 30 MUHAMMAD, THE WORLD-CHANGER An Intimate Portrait

By Mohamad Jebara NA October 2021 / St. Martin’s (Macmillan) / US Editor: Elisabeth Dyssegaard Edited MS Available

An accessible and fresh biography boldly arguing that Muhammad’s entrepreneurial mindset helped unleash the modern world.

A six-year-old cries in his mother’s arms as she draws her last breaths to urge him: “Muhammad, be a world-changer!” The boy, suddenly orphaned in a tribal society that fears any change, must overcome enormous obstacles to unleash his own potential and inspire others to do the same.

Fusing details long known to Muslim scholars but inaccessible to popular audiences, Mohamad Jebara brings to life the gripping personal story of Islam’s founding prophet. From his dramatic birth to nearly being abducted into slavery to escaping assassination, Muhammad emerges as an unrelenting man on a mission. Surround- ing the protagonist are dynamic women who nurture Muhammad; Jewish and Christian mentors who inspire him; and the enslaved individuals he helps liberate who propel his movement.

Jebara places Muhammad’s life in a broader historical context, vividly evoking the Meccan society he was born into and arguing that his innovative vision helped shape our modern world. “Via Jebara’s soaring prose, readers join Muhammad on an epic life journey that transforms how they view the world.”—Rev. Father Andre Boyer, Former Superi- Mohamad Jebara is a scholar of the Islamic arts with a focus on Semitic languages, or of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate including Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew. Following training in Morocco and Syria, Jebara served as Chief Imam at the Cordova Center in Canada and has lec- “An intimate and compelling account of the Prophet Muhammad’s life and wit- tured to diverse audiences around the world. A self-taught calligrapher, he currently ness. Scholarly yet accessible, this book touches the heart and the mind—helping serves as Educational Coordinator of The Algebra Society, a nonprofit promoting advance peacemaking our world so desperately needs.”—The Venerable Mavis self-improvement inspired by principles of Islamic scholarship. Brownlee, Archdeacon in the Anglican Church of Canada (retired)

“A religious icon long shrouded in both myth and stigma at last receives the biogra- “Jebara spotlights the many women who mentored Muhammad, including his phy he deserves. Jebara’s mastery of classical Arabic and Islamic scholarship enables mother, his wife Khadijah, and Barakah—the slave he emancipated at age six. him to reveal an authentic human narrative of Muhammad’s life.” Erudite and poetic, the narrative immerses readers in the Prophet’s life, leaving —Captain Barbara Helms, first female Muslim military chaplain in the British them craving to know more. A must-read.”—Rana Bokhari, former head of the commonwealth Manitoba Liberal Party AEVITAS 31 VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

By Ann Marks NA November 2021 / Atria (Simon & Schuster) / US Editor: Trish Todd Edited MS Available Summer 2021

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The definitive and authorized biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.

Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before posthumously skyrocketing to global fame, she had so deeply buried her past that even the families she lived with knew little about her. No one could relay where she was born or raised, if she had parents or siblings, if she enjoyed personal relationships, why she took photographs and why she didn’t share them with others. Now, the full story of her extraordinary life is explored by the only person who has been given access to her personal records and archive of 140,000 photographs. Based on meticulous investigative research, Vivian Maier Developed reveals the story of a woman who fled from a family with a hidden history “Ann Marks is the definitive expert on Vivian Maier. Where our documenta- of illegitimacy, bigamy, parental rejection, substance abuse, violence, and mental ry leaves off, she picks up. Through her meticulously organized and exhaustive illness to live life on her own terms. Left with a limited ability to disclose feelings research, Marks paints a complete historical profile of the photographer.”—John and form relationships, she expressed herself through photography, creating a secret Maloof, Director & Producer, Academy Award-nominated “Finding Vivian Maier” portfolio of pictures teeming with emotion, authenticity, and humanity. With limitless resilience she knocked down every obstacle in her way, determined to improve “Working like a forensic detective, Ann Marks breathes life into the elusive Vivian her lot in life and that of others by tirelessly advocating for the rights of workers, Maier. Her biography brings forth a needed understanding of the artist and better women, African Americans, and Native Americans. No one knew that behind the appreciation of her art.” —Jeffrey Goldstein, Original owner of partial Vivian detached veneer was a profoundly intelligent, empathetic, and inspired woman—a Maier archive woman so creatively gifted that her body of work would become one of the greatest photographic discoveries of the century. “Through her unique research into Vivian Maier’s life, Ann Marks has solved key mysteries in which this extraordinary woman’s photography has been shrouded.” Ann Marks spent thirty years as a senior executive in large corporations and served —Colin Westerbeck, Author of The Color Work; Past Photo Curator, Chicago as chief marketing officer of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. Institute of Art AEVITAS 32 THE SUM OF TRIFLES AUGUST WILSON A Memoir The Kiln in Which He Was Fired

By Julia Ridley Smith NA By Patti Hartigan NA November 2021 / University of Georgia Press / US Editor: Beth Snead Fall 2021 / 37 Ink (Simon & Schuster) / US Editor: Dawn Davis Edited MS Available Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2021

The Sum of Trifles opens with a dilemma familiar to many members of Julia’s The first and fully authorized biography of August Wilson by veteran theater critic, generation: after long lives of relative affluence, her parents have left behind a house Patti Hartigan, who has covered August Wilson for three decades. chock full of stuff. In Julia’s case, stuff was the family business. Julia’s parents were antiques dealers, and her childhood home in North Carolina is a virtual museum Playwright August Wilson’s story begins with his birth in a two-room tenement of furniture, books, art, and artifacts that now must be dealt with and dispersed. in Pittsburgh. Wilson’s mother, Daisy, a daughter of sharecroppers, was a spirited and disciplined mother who made time to play dodgeball and baseball with her In the first chapter, Julia poses the essential questions: “Keep? Trash? Donate? Sell?” children. Wilson’s father, German-born, left the family when he was a young boy. Yet in answering these, she reveals something much deeper: how we face loss and These two themes of abandonment and a loving, but strict mother play out in get along in the world without the people who raised us. In each chapter, Julia Wilson’s life and art. peels back the layers of meaning surrounding an item or set of items: a vintage hi-fi provides a view of her often-tense relationship with her father, whose love of Jazz saved him and by the time he was 37, Wilson was accepted by the National jazz kindled Julia’s own artistic impulse, while a Japanese silk screen embodies her Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Soon, his plays were mother’s principles of good taste and good manners, which shaped Julia’s early produced on Broadway and he was receiving Pulitzers and Tony’s. Most import- notions of gender and class. ant, Wilson changed American theater and culture. He set out to write a series of plays chronicling the experience of African Americans in the 20th Century, and Through a kaleidoscope of lenses that encompass history, philosophy, identity, and his American Century Cycle is the true attempt at an American epic in the vein the decorative arts, Julia probes our understanding of the objects with which we of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. It is an unprecedented achievement. But demons surround ourselves—all the while conveying the aching, primal grief of losing two bubbled underneath this achievement. Hartigan tells a fascinating, complicated, beloved parents. Like Roz Chast in Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, page-turning biography of extravagant success, internal vulnerability and an ability Julia offers up both dark humor and raw feeling, mixed with an erudite streak that to grow. applies equally to Flannery O’Connor, 19th century traditions of mourning, and the music of Nina Simone. A tender and wide-ranging memoir for readers of Hel- Patti Hartigan is currently a contributing editor to The Boston Globe. She is a en MacDonald’s H is for Hawk and Nina Riggs’ The Bright Hour, The Sum of Trifles former theater critic of The Boston Globe. marks the debut of a talented writer at the start of a long career.

Julia Ridley Smith has won fellowships and residencies from the Sewanee Writ- ers’ Conference, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. Julia’s nonfiction has appeared inEcotone and the New England Review, and been recognized as notable by The Best American Essays. Her fiction has been published in Electric Literature, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, she currently teaches at UNC Greensboro. AEVITAS 33 CRYING IN THE BATHROOM I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND An Essay Collection By Jessica Craig-Martin By Erika L. Sanchez NA NA Fall 2021 / Viking (PRH) / US Editor: Georgia Bodnar Fall 2021 / Random House (PRH) / US Editor: Caitlin McKenna Edited MS available Spring 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2021 Rights Sold: Famed photographer Jessica Craig-Martin chronicled New York City’s society Korean (Dongnyok) Spanish (Vintage Español) gatherings (uptown and downtown) for fifteen years. Like Marilyn Minter, Lauren A debut essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author and the Na- Greenfield, and Nan Goldin, Jessica has used her lens to burst the bubbles of fash- tional Book Award finalist, Erika L. Sanchez. ion, wealth, and social status.

Crying in the Bathroom follows in the tradition of Samantha Irby, Esme Weijun A stealth, gimlet-eyed sociologist masquerading as a party photographer whose Wang, Jia Tolentino, Roxane Gay and Sandra Cisneros— a compilation of person- work appears in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, al anecdote and political examination, told in Erika’s incomparable and irrepress- The New Museum, The Saatchi Collection, among others, Jessica’s visual talent for ible voice. Erika’s essay about an epic, life-changing vaginal infection is followed observing and documenting human behavior and society is matched equally by by an astute indictment of white feminism and its limits. The final essay in the her talents as a writer. In her memoir, she turns the lens on herself, and recounts a collection, Difficult Sun, is an affecting exploration of depression. latchkey bohemian childhood in the 1970s as the precocious offspring of two free spirited artists (her father is the acclaimed painter Sir Michael Craig Martin). Her Crying in the Bathroom is Erika L. Sanchez at her most self-aware, her most forth- account of growing up between London and New York’s Soho is a vivid social and right, her most singularly perceptive, she has an uncanny ability to connect with cultural history of 70s and 80s bohemia. readers in her prose. The collection’s strength speaks for itself, but when asked why she wanted to write it, Erika says: “I’ve always looked for books that mirrored my She offers a snapshot of a now almost mythic moment in New York City history experiences, but I rarely found them. Even now, there hasn’t been an essay collec- that she witnessed almost by accident, from selling seafood to Jean Michel Basquiat tion by a Latina author that has reached a mainstream audience.” Crying in the in the early days of Dean & Deluca to working for Anna Wintour as an assistant Bathroom stands as this majorly overdue essay collection. at British Vogue. Her social satire follows in the footsteps of Nora Ephron and Fran Liebowitz, barbed yet deeply human; this is the story of a clever yet self-doubting Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican young woman trying to find her place in the world with little adult instruction or immigrants. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, supervision. she is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel, I Am Not Your Jessica Craig-Martin is a photographer whose work appears in permanent collec- Perfect Mexican Daughter, which is a National tions. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York, Vanity Fair, and The New Book Award Finalist, and the poetry collection, Yorker. Lessons on Expulsion, which is a finalist of the Pen America Open Book Award. Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, ESPN.com, The Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and elsewhere. AEVITAS 34 REBEL TO AMERICA KIKI MAN RAY A Memoir of an Uprising By Mark Braude By Kareem “Tef Poe” Jackson NA NA Fall 2021 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: Tom Mayer Winter 2022 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: Amy Cherry Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021

Rebel to America is the story of a young man coming of age in the beating heart Rights Sold: of Saint Louis, Missouri. It’s a generational story about black culture between the German (Suhrkamp) UK/Comm (Two Roads/JohnMurray) coasts; about the clash between youths and the police; about loving families and dangerous gangs; about hope and hip hop and a new civil rights movement coming A propulsive human drama about Kiki de Montparnasse—the “It Girl” of Paris alive in the American Midwest. between the World Wars.

Through his story, Tef explores the history of the community from which he came. A groundbreaking performer who directly or indirectly paved the way for He delivers a rich portrait of a city divided by race. He captures stories about his multi-hyphenates such as Edith Piaf, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, Kiki filled cab- brothers, his ride-or-die friends, his girlfriends who made him into a man, the arets and sold out art shows. And she shepherded along the career of a relatively golden age of open mics in the U-City loop, a legendary destination for aspiring unknown American photographer named Man Ray. artists, and the spirit of revolution that culminated in the uprising in Ferguson and the dawn of a new black consciousness. Kiki Man Ray is the only book to tell the twinned love story of Kiki and Man Ray. Set in post-war France from 1921 to 1929—at a time of eroding traditions, Rapper and 2018 Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard University, Tef Poe’s work has shattered faith, and radical reinvention—Kiki and Man Ray become Zelig-like fig- been featured in Time, Vice, XXL, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Atlanta Black Star, and ures, embodying and shaping their community, and the era at large. They subvert The Source. Rebel to America is his first book. norms, create art that changes the way we see the world, and push each other until they break apart. Theirs is a story of ambition, creativity, love, success, control, sus- picion, and power. And when the dust settles, we’re forced to wonder: who do we choose to remember and who do we choose to forget? What is the line between an artist and a muse? Where does female empowerment cross into exploitation? And who controls the narrative of history?

Critically acclaimed author Mark Braude is a former postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where he was also a lecturer in the departments of Art His- tory, History, and French. He is the Spring 2020 Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic.

AEVITAS 35 MURDER BOOK A Graphic Memoir

By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell WE Spring 2022 / Andrews McMeel / US Editor: Allison Adler Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021

If you’re a true crime junkie, you can’t get enough of the dark details: blood spatter patterns, serial killer profiles, Forensic Files re-enactments. And if you’re Hilary Campbell, you turn your lifelong obsession with murder into an entertaining, hilarious graphic memoir that asks, “why is it so goddamn fun to think about dismember- ment?”.

Through the lens of her own family and relationships, Hilary delves into famous murders, true crime history, and how we as a society eat up these stories and turn them into pop culture. Hilary is an accomplished cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She has illustrated the books Feminist Fight Club and Are You My Uber?, and keeps a robust and growing Instagram account with 63.6k followers. Like Julia Wertz’s Towers, Tenements, and Trash, Murder Book is a personal take on a larger topic, which gives it an audience outside the traditional graphic memoir space.

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is the author of the forthcoming true crime graphic memoir Murder Book. She is a cartoonist, illustrator, stand-up comedian and documentary filmmaker. Her cartoons have appeared in heT New Yorker, The New York Times, Barron’s and elsewhere.

AEVITAS 36 DOT DOT DOT HOW TO SAY BABYLON When Technology Became Humanity and Things A Memoir Got Complicated By Safiya Sinclair By Laurie Segall NA NA March 2022 / Dey Street (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Liz Stein Spring 2022 / 37 Ink (Simon & Shuster) / US Editor: Dawn Davis Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2021

Rights Sold: Rights Sold: Complex Chinese (Heliopolis) Korean (Munhakdongne) UK/Commonwealth (Picador) Tech isn’t our salvation or damnation; it’s a mirror of who we are, and who we can become. Like Tara Westover’s inspiring Educated and Jeanette Walls’s The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is the story of one girl’s fiery determination to live life on her own terms. With the insight, wit, and effervescence of a Millennial Carrie Bradshaw, Laurie takes us on a spirited and authoritative journey through one of the most important decades, and cultural shifts, in modern history. Dotted with icons like Jack Dorsey, Safiya Sinclair was born into a strict Rastafarian family in Montego Bay, where Mark Zuckerberg, and Ev Williams, her story is about the arc of success—how it luxury hotels line pristine beaches. But Safiya’s Jamaica is not the island paradise of changes people and at what price—and the search for meaning in an increasingly tourist brochures and bouncy reggae. On this heavily Christian island, Rastas were filtered world. It’s about staying scrappy and having the strength to walk away from literally outlawed as a religious minority, living in poverty in an isolated world of “good enough.” And it’s about the tension between rebellion and stasis, success and rigid patriarchal rule. failure, image and authenticity, and connection and disruption. Safiya’s father, a hot-tempered itinerant reggae musician, adhered to the Rasta An evergreen journey of self-discovery, Dot Dot Dot follows in the footsteps of belief that women are wholly subordinate to men. But when Safiya’s father was on industry-busting books such as Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, and like Katy Tur’s the road, her mother brought the world beyond to her very bright children. Safiya’s bestseller Unbelievable, it gives a facelift to media-classics such as Dispatches from imagination leapt beyond her father’s borders, and so with her defiance came in- the Edge by Anderson Cooper and The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown, pulling creasingly violent clashes with her father. back the curtain on kingmakers, blowhards, and hard-boiled journalists. Safiya’s extraordinary journey to selfhood takes readers beyond the experience of Laurie Segall is an award-winning investigative one family’s history and inside a world few of us understand. The legacy of co- journalist. She was named one of Forbes’ lonialism is echoed in the oppressive religion in which she was raised. The social “30 under 30,” Mashable’s “Top Journalists to isolation of her family is echoed in her personal isolation from her religion and the Subscribe to on Facebook,” and one of the “Top society that disdained her. Her coming into her own as an independent woman Journalists Followed by CEOs.” Formerly the is mirrored in the island’s liberation from England. Above all, the beauty of her senior technology correspondent for CNN, she relationship with her mother is echoed in the beauty of the island itself. developed and hosted a series of docuseries that Safiya Sinclair explored the impact of technology on sex, love, is the author of the award-winning poetry collection Cannibal; and death. winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Carib- bean Literature, finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award and longlisted for both the 2017 PEN Open Book Award and the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize.

AEVITAS 37 THE RECKONING GUCCI TO GOATS One Daughter’s Brave Quest for Justice and the Deadly A Memoir Truth About her Father By April Balascio NA By Jake Keiser NA Spring 2022 / Gallery (S&S) / US Editor: Hannah Braaten Spring 2022 / The Dial Press (PRH) / US Editor: Annie Chagnot Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Winter 2021

Rights Sold: Korean (BY4M) Gucci to Goats is an enchanting memoir by a city girl who leaves behind a six-fig- French (Sonatine) UK/Comm (HarperCollins UK) ure salary to move by herself to a farm in the middle of Mississippi. Jake Keiser’s story is for folks who dream of reconnecting with nature. It’s for people who are For decades, April had harbored dark suspicions about her handsome, charismatic looking for inspiration and flock to memoirs by powerful, risk-taking women, like father, a reformed criminal and motivational speaker—his obsession with detective Cheryl Strayed or Elizabeth Gilbert. magazines, his abusive behavior behind closed doors, their family’s sudden moves in the middle of the night throughout her childhood, and the unsolved murders left in Jake Keiser was living the high life in Tampa, Florida, running a high-powered their wake, haunted her. PR firm and juggling drinks dates, shopping sprees, and charity galas. But at age 38, following a failed marriage, a series of painful miscarriages, and a blistering Late one evening, April’s heart stopped as her screen filled with accounts of a breakup, she begins to suffer from extreme anxiety. Hit with the realization that no recently opened cold case in Wisconsin, the 1980 double-murder of two teen- amount of Botox can fill the hole in her heart, she longs for something money can’t agers, known as “The Sweetheart Murders”. The couple had disappeared after buy. Which leads her to the impulse purchase of a lifetime: a farm of her own. attending a wedding at the Concord House, a venue where April’s dad had worked as a handyman. Their bodies were found weeks later, both had been strangled; Through trial by fire, Jake learns to fix a well, weatherproof a house, and muck one sexually assaulted. Suddenly, April remembered everything. A forty-year-old out a stall. She learns to haul wood, shoot a gun, and kill a snake. And she learns Midwestern mother of three, she now had a decision to make. April thought about to care for over 75 animals—hens, geese, chickens, turkeys, goats, and quail. But the parents of the murdered teens—how could she not share what she knew? What scarred by a fresh heartbreak and haunted by the accumulated pain of her past, if her memories were real and held the key to solving this long cold case—and Jake hits rock bottom. With nowhere left to run, she’s finally forced to confront a perhaps, as she feared, held the keys to solving many others. The information she bracing reality—the farm can’t save her. Only she can save herself. shared pertained to her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, a man who has since become known as one of the most notorious serial killers in history. A powerful new Jake Keiser moved to Mississippi in entrant into the true crime canon, The Reckoning traces the unforgettable journey November 2012, and shortly thereafter that ultimately led to April reporting her father to the police for murder, and the began her blog documenting farming life. dramatic aftermath of her decision. The memoir reads like a real-life detective Gucci to Goats is her first book. story as the author dives deep into her larger-than-life childhood, into the murky, violent past of her father—and into the present—as she tirelessly pieces together clues that might yield insight into her father’s psyche and behavior and in so doing, crack open as-yet-unsolved homicides that she, and countless others, believe he’s responsible for.

April Balascio is the star of the true crime podcast, The Clearing, which has nearly 17 million downloads to date and is currently being developed as a major television series. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband, Michael. AEVITAS 38 RHAPSODY SWOLE The Life and Legacy of Freddie Mercury The Making of Men & The Meaning of Muscle

By Jason King By Michael Brodeur NA NA Spring 2022 / HarperCollins / US Editor: Carrie Thornton Spring 2022 / Beacon Press / US Editor: Catherine Tung Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021

Rights Sold: Cultural critic Michael Brodeur demonstrates all the ways the male body has historically reflected the values of the culture that contains it and the demands of mas- Dutch (Xander) Russia (Eksmo) culinity as it has changed shape—from the Herculean heroes of mythological lore, German (Hannibal) UK/Comm (Bloomsbury UK) to the pantheon of wrestlers and hypervascular action figures he grew up watching Have you ever tried to explain, let alone sing the words to, Bohemian Rhapsody? destroy each other in the ring, to the lean-and-mean survivalist CrossFit bodies of It’s a “delirious puzzle”, much like the creator himself—one of pop music’s most today’s crop of Pratts and Hemsworths. And from there, into the toxic turns the misinterpreted and misunderstood stars. Internet has helped foster—or fester—within masculinity.

Twenty-seven years after his death from AIDS, Mercury’s fans are still trying to Part memoir, part cultural history, Swole offers a timely opportunity for readers figure out this complex and multi-layered celebrity, one who deliberately con- to engage with pressing questions about manhood and masculinity that too often cealed his true self from the public for the duration of his career. Jason King will get swept under the mats. It takes a frank and unflinching look at the systems that reveal that self in Rhapsody, the first serious, sustained, in-depth critical biography inform and misinform our relationships with our own bodies, as well as forecasts of the singer, a book that will finally capture Mercury in all his many dimensions. where this could all be heading—like the increasing push for men to embody the impossible (silicone injections and digital “morphing”) or, worse, interpret the Rhapsody will be more than a standard bio; King intends to illustrate how Mer- terms of the body as political determinants such as with the sexual nihilism of the cury operated in four different but interrelated closets through his professional “incel” movement. Michael’s own journey from twig to big and his ever-shifting career. Mercury was closeted about his queer sexuality, his nationality, his ethnic relationship with his body unfold with light humor and heavy revelations. Along and racial background, and his AIDS diagnosis. King will argue that the closet, the way, he takes an incisive and insightful look at the history of the gym, muscle for Mercury, was a place of possibility from which he could stage his momentous mags, cultural touchstones like Pumping Iron, American Gladiators, the bil- career. He valued privacy and mystery and from that created a compelling and lion-dollar home fitness industry (from Soloflex to the state-of-the-art Mirror) and meaningful public life. today’s powerlifting community, which is infused by both sexual and social politics, and very specific ideas of masculinity. Swole is populated with a cast of cultural Jason King, who holds a Ph.D. from NYU, characters well known and less known from Atlas to Zyzz, including Arnold, He- is a musician, DJ, producer, curator, writer, Man, Lou Ferrigno, Hulk Hogan, Tom of Finland, and Eugen Sandow, the father and is Chair of the Clive Davis Institute at of modern bodybuilding. Michael digs deep into his own personal history and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. shares the stories of a select batch of friends, strangers, heroes, and other “swole mates” for whom muscle plays an outsized role.

Michael Brodeur is classical music editor at The Washington Post, and is a former cultural critic at the Boston Globe. Michael’s written on the gym and the body for Thrillist, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Medium.

AEVITAS 39 ONBOARDING CONQUERING ALEXANDER A Black Girl’s Guide to Navigating Race, Relationships, and Mess While Surviving a New England Boarding School By Elizabeth Samet By Kendra James WE WE Spring 2022 / Grand Central (Hachette) / US Editor: Maddie Caldwell Spring 2022 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: Bob Weil Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021 Edited MS Available Fall 2021

In 2006, Kendra James was the first African-American legacy student to graduate Conquering Alexander will trace the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic from the Taft School since its founding in 1890. world conqueror, of which he is the historical original. Elizabeth aims to write a comprehensive and subversive retelling of the many different lives of Alexander to With whip-smart insight into the mythical world of elite prep schools, Onboarding be found in history, fiction, and popular culture. joins works such as Lorene Carey’s classic memoir Black Ice and Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling novel Prep. As a writer, Kendra follows in the footsteps of bestselling Obsessed with fame in an ancient culture where the battlefield was the surest place authors like Roxanne Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Michael Arceneaux whose linked to win it, Alexander spent his entire adult life on campaign. During its 13-year essays explore the intersection of race, gender, class, pop culture, and personal campaign, Alexander’s army marched over 20,000 miles, through most of the re- experience. gions where the US has concentrated its military energies since 2001. He was there before us. The stories Kendra tells inOnboarding all occurred before this generation’s Woke student activists. Yet as Kendra shows, the issues she and her fellow non-white, In our present moment, so alive to the idea of “greatness,” an examination of non-straight, and even non-skinny, students faced remain all too relevant to- Alexander and his myth can open a rich discussion about both the personal and day. With its combination of incisive social critique, uproarious depictions of its national ambition to be great. Alexander’s life is the template against which those characters and events, and unerring ability to relate them to themes in our current of subsequent conquerors from Julius Caesar to Genghis Khan to Napoleon have and popular culture, Onboarding will resonate with anyone who has ever been The been compared. Alexander’s career, like that of Caesar, became a lesson in the dan- Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered with gers of a military despot. However, political and cultural trends suggest a surprising an extreme case of homesickness. And it will speak to those who are going away to hunger for latter-day Alexanders. high school or college, entering a new—wealthier and whiter—environment for the first time. An English professor at West Point, Elizabeth Samet received her BA from Har- vard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Kendra James was Senior Editor at Shondaland for two years and is currently the for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Managing Editor for StarTrek.com. Her writing has been published widely from Books in 2007. Elle, Marie Claire, Women’s Health Magazine, ESPN, The Daily Beast, Catapult,and The Toast among others

AEVITAS 40 UNTITLED MEMOIR THE GLASS OF FASHION A Memoir By Tom Selleck NA By Hamish Bowles NA Spring 2022 / Dey Street (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Carrie Thornton Spring 2022 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Shelley Wanger Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Rights Sold: Rights Sold: UK/Commonwealth (Little Brown UK) German (Hannibal) UK/Comm (HarperCollins UK) With a kaleidoscopic mixture of encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Tom Selleck’s story is the story of a half-century of Hollywood. Hamish brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history collide.

He kicked off his movie career by co-starring with Mae West. He gave Frank Sina- From creating a makeshift fontange at age four to winning a British Vogue tal- tra his last acting job, a guest spot on Magnum P.I.. He filmed a movie with Mar- ent contest at age fourteen, from becoming the youngest fashion director ever at lon Brando—a terrible movie. He met or worked with everyone from John Wayne Harpers & Queen at age twenty-two to moving up the ranks at Vogue to become the to Farrah Fawcett to F. Murray Abraham to Whoopi Goldberg. As a late bloomer International Editor at Large in 2011, Hamish has collected the equivalent of four in the entertainment industry, Selleck was able to grow into a uniquely sensitive PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture. He’s known and performer and person, as well as an actor who both embodied and subtly subverted learned from scores of the most significant tastemakers of the last several decades, the clichés of onscreen manhood. It is also the story of half a century of America: and he’ll bring to life a cast of characters never before assembled on one stage. His as a Baby Boomer who lived through Vietnam and its aftermath, he watched some book will honor those who influenced him and indirectly chart his influence on close friends lose their way and others lose their lives. others—all in his charming, elegant, and accessible prose.

It’s the story of a man who had to learn how to balance his personal and profes- Hamish not only knows his stuff but can write about it with ease and authority. sional lives, and who frequently felt the need to adjust his career to protect his As New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn wrote about Hamish in 2001, his family’s privacy and normalcy. And above all, it’s the story of a man who has con- expertise arises from an unusual combination of “scholarly precision and childlike tinued to follow his moral compass despite the temptations and distractions of the curiosity... He can tell you not only how a 1922 Chanel dress was made, but also entertainment industry—and who has always tried to push himself and his career who wore it and possibly even who the lady was romancing at the time.” Another into new territory. writer, Paul Rudnick, described Hamish as having “a scholar’s dedication and a poet’s passion.” Tom Selleck is an actor and producer best known for his roles as Thomas Magnum on the original Hamish will take the reader on an international journey narrated through a pas- Magnum P.I. television series, Dr. Richard Burke, tiche of people, places, personal moments, and professional opinion. Erudite but Monica’s older boyfriend on Friends, and NYPD playful, historical but personal, it’s an exploration of the spaces between style and Commissioner Frank Reagan on the hit crime fashion and culture—into the chasms between the art of self-expression, classical drama Blue Bloods. He has also made numerous traditions, and the circus of self-promotion. This isn’t a book aimed at fashion in- films includingThree Men and A Baby, in siders but rather at the culturally curious, creatively ambitious, and style obsessed. which he played Peter Mitchell, The Closer, and Mr. Baseball. Hamish Bowles is Vogue’s International Editor-at-Large, and a creative consultant for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. AEVITAS 41 CHANGE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION UNTITLED ON CLASSICAL MUSIC And Other Lessons Learned in a Life of Exploration in Space and on Earth By Arianna Solange Warsaw-Fan Rauch By Linda T. Elkins-Tanton NA NA Fall 2022 / William Morrow (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Nick Amphlett Fall 2022 / Putnam (PRH) / US Editor: Michelle Howry Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

The story of Lindy’s extraordinary, but untraditional journey from her childhood in hip- From a classical violinist with two degrees in Musical Performance from Julliard, py-dippy Ithaca, New York to the helm of a NASA deep space exploration. And she will and a serious degree of moxie comes a completely fresh take on the often intimidat- share the lessons she has learned along the way about teams, leadership, culture, and ing and exclusionary world of classical music that revels in its beauty and absurdity education which Lindy believes are far more important to her success than her scientific on every page. brilliance. A caper through compositional periods, compositional types, forms, components, On July 6th, Wired published sn article chronicling the Siberian journey that led composers, instruments, and concert etiquette, it offers a scintillating mosaic of to solving how huge volcanic eruptions burning coal resulted in the worst extinc- expertise, unapologetic opinion, self-eviscerating anecdotes, and artfully deployed tion in Earth’s history – the Permian-Triassic – some 250 million years ago. The food metaphors. The best masterclass you never knew you needed,Tonic revives a following day, NASA issued a press release announcing that Psyche, the mission to genre that has been relegated to an ivory tower and covered with the cobwebs of explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, has moved from the design stage elitism and exclusion. It breathes significance into music that’s been disregarded as to the building of the spacecraft hardware that will launch sometime in 2022 to fly irrelevant, and makes you grab your iPhone to play Brahms, Bach, and Berlioz. Or to its target in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The connection between at least that’s what it did to me. By pouring her passion and repugnance into every events in deep, deep geologic time and a futuristic mission into space? Lindy. paragraph, Arianna personalizes the listening experience, crushes the barriers to entry, and makes a seemingly bygone subject come roaring to life. The book seamlessly blends memoir with lessons about some of life’s big dilem- mas: How do we create a life of meaning? How can we lead authentically? How While Tonic will join perennial music books such as The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, do we form teams whose cultures support all their members? How do we answer What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copeland, Mozart in the Jungle by Blair Tin- the largest questions in life and in the universe? Written in stunning prose, Change dall, and This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin, it may very well sit on a Begins With A Question is reminiscent of Hope Jahren’s New York Times bestseller shelf with essays by funny ladies or even personal development books. Tonally and Lab Girl with its combination of personal and science narrative. Added to Lindy’s commercially, Tonic aims to broaden the category—to do for classical music what personal story, is her account of how she developed her world view and principles What Are You Looking At by Will Gompertz did for modern art; and Will My Cat of leadership and team building, which have been essential to her success and are Eat My Eyeballs did for corpses. the heart of this remarkable life and compelling narrative. You might call Change Begins With A Question a memoir that asks the reader to think or a big-think book Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch has performed as a professional violinist at top ven- that tells a fascinating life story. ues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Berlin’s Philhar- monie, Boston Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton is the Managing Director of Arizona State University’s In- so on. She appeared as concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the terplanetary Initiative, Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission: Journey Juilliard Symphony, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival to a Metallic World, and co-founder of the ed techcompany Beagle Learning. Orchestra; and has also performed with the Chamber Players of Canada, the So- ciete de Musique de Chambre de Montreal, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. AEVITAS 42 STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU THE WIVES A Memoir A Memoir

By Martha Wainwright NA By Simone Gorrindo WE Fall 2022 / Hachette Books / US Editor: Ben Schafer Fall 2022 / Simon & Schuster / US Editor: Hannah Braaten Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Rights Sold: Simone Gorrindo never expected to uproot herself from her hard-won life as an editor Canada (Knopf Canada) UK/Comm (S&S UK) in New York to travel to Georgia as the wife of a soldier. But when her husband joined Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon the Army, she made the choice to follow him into the unknown and found herself deep Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed and genre-defying singer Rufus in an entirely new culture: in the gun friendly, religious South. But then she meets the Wainwright. other Army wives, and her life is forever changed.

Our country has become almost wholly reliant on the most elite sections of the Martha grew up in a world filled with such incomparable folk legends as Leon- military to fight our ongoing wars. Simone’s husband Andrew is one of those sol- ard Cohen; Suzy Roche, Anna McGarrigle, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pete diers—his is the only unit in the Army that has been deployed nonstop since 9/11. Townsend, Donald Fagan and Emmylou Harris. It was within this loud, boister- Many of the men he works with have been fighting overseas for almost half their ous, carny, musical milieu that Martha came of age, struggling to find her voice lives. They belong to the Army, in heart and mind. until she exploded on the scene with her 2005 debut critically acclaimed album,

Martha Wainwright, containing the blistering hit, “Bloody Mother F*cking And their wives—well, they belong to each other. Simone’s husband may be the Asshole,” which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of that year. Her one deploying, but, for the sake of her survival, she makes friendships and finds successful debut album and the ones that followed such as Come Home to Mama, support across classes, cultures, and political divides. The men have the architecture I Know You’re Married but I’ve Got Feelings Too, and Goodnight City came to define of the Army to hold them up wherever they are. The wives, on the other hand, are Martha’s searing songwriting and established her as a voice to be reckoned with. In left to erect their own scaffoldings. Simone’s memoir tells the story of how, with Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha digs into the deep recesses of herself with the help of these women, she built a life with people profoundly unlike herself in the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music. She describes her an era of stark political division. tumultuous public-facing journey from awkward, earnest, and ultimately rebellious daughter, through her intense competition and ultimate alliance with her brother, The Wives is a page-turning, behind-the-scenes look at the marriages and friend- Rufus, to the indescribable loss of their mother, Kate, and then, finally, discovering ships on the home front of the forever war. Simone is a writer, through and her voice as an artist. With candor and grace, Martha writes of becoming a mother through—she handles tough issues with thoughtfulness and grace, and her story herself and making peace with her past struggles with Kate and her former self, fi- is a window into a culture that is omnipresent in contemporary America, but that nally understanding and facing the challenge of being a female artist and a mother. really has an opportunity to have a voice. I am just stunned at this proposal for The

Wives; I know relatively few people like these women but I feel deeply connected Martha Wainwright is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter, with over to their sacrifice and their strength. two decades of industry experience. Critically-acclaimed for the rawness and emotional honesty of both her vocals and lyrics, Martha is perhaps best known for Simone Gorrindo’s work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Mag- her evocative hit “Bloody Motherf***ing Asshole,” from her self-titled debut album azine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, The Christian Science Monitor, Martha Wainwright (2005). SELF, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and others.

AEVITAS 43 PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE TANAQUIL A Memoir of American Motherhood Le Clercq, Balanchine, and a Life at the Forefront of the 20th Century By Hope Wabuke NA By Holly Brubach NA Spring 2023 / Vintage (PRH) / US Editor: Maria Goldverg Spring 2023 / Simon & Schuster / US Editor: Trish Todd Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Fall 2022 Rights Sold: Rights Sold: UK/Commonwealth (Orion) UK/Commonwealth (Faber UK) When Hope Wabuke became a mother, she was thrilled. She welcomed her son with open arms, and yet she could not separate her excitement and love from her anx- In the mode of Stacy Schiff’s Pulitzer Prize-winningVéra , the novelistic story of iety. She knew the names of the unarmed black boys and girls lost in recent years: Vladimir Nabokov’s wife and their fifty-two-year marriage,Tanaquil will carry all Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Jordan Davis, Ayana Davis, and now the cultural heft of a “ballet book.” Le Clercq’s and Balanchine’s love story is one George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake and on and on and on. She knew what for the ages, akin to those depicted in Amanda Vaill’s Everybody Was So Young the world was capable of doing to her son. and Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s Furious Love.

This is the reality of being a black mother to a black son: Racism and violence live George Balanchine was to dance what Picasso was to painting—not just a genius, at the surface. In Wabuke’s memoir-in-essays, she wrestles with the violent realities but an inventor of a modern art form, and a defining artist of his century, found- her son will face growing up black in America, set against the realities she herself ing what would eventually become the New York City Ballet. Tanaquil Le Clercq faces as a Black woman, a single mother, the daughter of refugees, a scholar, an art- would rise through Balanchine’s school to become the fledgling City Ballet’s star ist, and a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor. How does she take the lessons dancer, a sly performer whose unprecedented lines perfectly expressed the choreog- of her own life, of the systemic oppression of black bodies, and teach her son to rapher’s radical vision. She became his fifth and final wife, and the only one—ac- not just survive, but to thrive? cording to friends and fellow dancers—who truly understood him and loved him for who he was, rather than what he could do for her. In 1956, during City Ballet’s Building upon her viral essay “Five Moments in the Life of a Black Mother” from European tour, Le Clercq was stricken with polio, leaving her without the use of The Hairpin, Wabuke explores the cultural, historical, and personal trauma partic- her legs. Her life and Balanchine’s stalled as their efforts at rehabilitation failed ular to black motherhood. From that wonderful day her son was born, to facing along with their marriage. And yet, even after their divorce, with Le Clercq con- years of domestic violence inside her home and racial violence outside her home, fined to her wheelchair, she remained Balanchine’s trusted adviser, a quietly astute to spending a year in a domestic violence shelter with her one-year-old baby boy, observer of his work who refused to let tragedy diminish her enjoyment of life and to finding a stable life with her son in a city where she can work and write, Wa- dance. buke gives urgent, beautiful life to a story of motherhood and survival. Extending a conversation carved out by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s work and engaging with writers like Holly Brubach has worked as a staff writer and editor atThe New Yorker, the New Morgan Jerkins and Tressie McMillan Cottom in their discussions of culture and York Times, the New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, where she won a Na- feminism, Wabuke’s searing memoir brings one woman’s story front and center. tional Magazine Award in Essays & Criticism. Hope Wabuke is a poet, academic, and essayist. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a former contributing editor for The Root, and a founding board member of the Kimbilio Center for African American fiction.

AEVITAS 44 THE ROARING GIRL CITIZEN KIM The Untold Story of Carolyn Bessette The Life and Times of Kim Kardashian West

By Elizabeth Beller NA By Jonathan Van Meter NA Spring 2023 / Gallery (S&S) / US Editor: Aimee Bell Fall 2023 / Viking (PRH) / US Editor: Rick Kot Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Available Spring 2023

A sensitive, sophisticated act of reclaiming the narrative of a woman both ordinary Rights Sold: and extraordinary, whose legacy has heretofore been determined by authors and Danish (Politikens) Italian (Vallardi / GeMS) journalists dead set on casting her in an unflattering light as a villain. Dutch (Spectrum) Norwegian (Gyldendal) Finnish (Otava) Russian (Eksmo) Media accounts—and even historical treatments today—have usually portrayed French (Calmann-Lévy) Swedish (Bokfabriken) Bessette as an ice queen, a vapid fashion insider, a child of WASP privilege, and a German (Goldmann) UK/Comm (Ebury / PRH UK) fame-hungry accessory to her husband. Yet the Carolyn that comes alive in these Drawn from Jonathan’s extensive research and written with his inimitable writerly pages is a warm, vivacious daughter of a middle-class Italian-American family; a flair,Citizen Kim will offer a fully authorized, crystal clear window into the life magnetic, caring friend; an ambitious go-getter; and a camera-shy woman with of global mega celebrity, civil rights advocate, and fashion and beauty mogul Kim a history of trauma, who had complicated feelings about the public life that her Kardashian West. relationship required of her. As it captures the Kardashian-Jenner family’s world of Hollywood glitz, glam- The Roaring Girl will open readers’ eyes to the many sides of Bessette without our, and fame, Citizen Kim will also chronicle the shifting landscapes, from the shying away from the thornier aspects of her character and story. It will couch its 1990’s to the present, of celebrity culture, racial and sexual politics, and social observations and revelations in the care and empathy due any human being, while justice movements from Black Lives Matter to gay marriage, from prison reform also invoking the glamor and possibility of the 90s in New York.The Roaring Girl to transgender freedom. Most notably, though, it will share the origin story of a will be a “Kennedy book” that breaks new ground and taps into the vast audience modern-day superwoman, a slice in the life of one of the most influential, most that made Tina Brown’s classic The Diana Chronicles a hit and the current Meghan affluent, most talked about public figures of our time. It will recount her early and Harry biography Finding Freedom an instant bestseller. experiences with media attention and notoriety as the daughter of O.J. Simpson’s defense attorney, as well as her entrepreneurial passions and pursuit of fame and After a career in the art world at fortune in her own right. It will follow her family as they get their first real dose Sotheby’s and in film as a reader for of fame after the launch of Kim and Kris’ brainchild, Keeping Up with the Kar- Miramax, Elizabeth Beller turned to dashians. It will also track Kim’s long, friendship-turned-romance with Kanye writing and editing full-time. Her work West, who helps her break into high fashion, paving the way for her multi-mil- has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, lion-dollar beauty business ventures and her life as the mother of four children. and Travel and Leisure, among other Then too, Citizen Kim will capture Kim’s lifelong interest in law and racial justice, outlets. Her most recent project has as well as her steadfast determination to do good in the world. A perfect read for been a multi-volume series of pop culture aficionados, political junkies, and Kim fanatics and skeptics alike. biographies, Scoop! (authored as C.H. Mitford), for Penguin Young Readers. Jonathan Van Meter has reported on culture for over thirty years and has interviewed nearly every woman who is anyone: including Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Jill Biden, Jennifer Aniston, Beyonce, Joan Didion, Joan Rivers and Michelle Obama. AEVITAS 45 DON’T THINK, DEAR The Glamorous, Tragic Lives of Five Great Dancers— and Me By Alice Robb NA Spring 2023 / HMH / US Editor: Deb Brody and Emma Peters Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Rights Sold: UK/Commonwealth (Oneworld) Why are we fascinated by ballet dancers—even if we’re not interested in the art they make? Art or no art, professional or child’s play, is ballet good for women? Can it complement feminist ideals, or does it only detract from them?

This book weaves together memoir and biography with an exploration of feminin- ity, sex, pain and devotion to art. In telling the dramatic, larger-than-life stories of Margot Fonteyn, Gelsey Kirkland, Toni Bentley, Anna Pavlova and Alicia Alon- so—brilliant ballerinas from different places and times, linked by their dedication to dance—I reveal how ballet hurt, empowered and shaped them, and why dancers like them inspire such cultish obsession. Along the way, I reckon with my own past—exploring how ballet has affected my life and why it continues to exert such a strong grip on my psyche. In planning the structure of this book, I was inspired by other hybrids of memoir, cultural criticism and biography such as Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse (on women and walking), Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City (on artists and loneliness) and Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering (on writers and drinking).

Alice Robb is the author of Why We Dream and has written for The New Republic, New York, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, Elle, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Vice, The BBC and British Vogue. Her work has been republished by Slate, CNN, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country.

Previous Publisher of Alice Robb’s WHY WE DREAM: Czech (Host) Korean (Rok Media) Dutch (Karakter) Polish (Agora) French (Flammarion) Portuguese (PRH Portugal) Greek (Aiora) Romanian (Litera) Hebrew (Matar) Russian (Azbooka/Atticus) Hungarian (Libri) Serbian (Vulkan) Italian (Rizzoli) Simplified Chinese (China Renmin University Press) Japanese (Hayakawa) Spanish (Blackie Books) AEVITAS 46 UPCOMING MINDFULLNESS & SELF-HELP MY EVERYTHING The Parent I Hope to Be, The Children I Hope to Raise

By Einat Nathan NA April 2021 / Hachette / US Editor: Lauren Marino Final PDF Available Rights Sold: Croatian (Planetopija) Romanian (Curta Veche Publishing) Dutch (Gottmer) Russian (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber) Hebrew (Kinneret Zmora Bitan) Simplified Chinese (Booky) Korean (Will Book) Turkish (Timaş) The compassionate #1 bestseller in Israel that shows parents—particularly mothers— how to teach children to be strong and independent by seeing the world through their children’s eyes and feel it through their children’s hearts.

Einat Nathan is the mother of five children and a parenting expert and counselor with her own clinic. She first published her book Haimsheli( , by top publisher Kin- neret Zmora Bitan) in 2018, and it became the national bestseller of the year across all categories in Israel, making her a national celebrity.

My Everything resonated because mothers read it, cried and smiled, and discovered a way to look at their children as independent people, not solely as an extension of who they are or as a calling card. Now translated into English, My Everything is a beautiful and comforting read that reminds mothers how to be patient with their children, to try to remain calm in an age of constant fearmongering, and to appre- “Empathetic, thoughtful, full of wisdom and heart. Positive parenting will make ciate and accept each child as an individual, with their own quirks, gifts, and flaws. the world a better place.”—Gal Gadot Einat writes, “Parenthood is like a bungee jump. It’s scary and fun, it makes you fly “This book delivers scarce and important insight.”—Haaretz and often lets you down.” This book isn’t so much a parenting guide as an exploration of the complex emotional journey of being a parent, reminding us of the cour- “Einat Nathan is the parenting guru for the millennial parents.” age and energy it requires as well as acknowledging that no parent is perfect and at —Ahronot Yideoth the end of the day, this relationship is about connection. My Everything is a compassionate, loving answer to The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to teach children to be “This book isn’t afraid to deal with the most disturbing parenting issues, but in a strong and independent. Part Conscious Parenting and part The Blessings of a Skinned soothing, relaxing way.”—Makor Rishon Knee, this is a book that will transform how readers think about raising children, resonating across cultures. “Everyone I know who bought and read this book praises it. There’s no doubt this is a fantastic book. As publishers, a book that is a steady-seller is the holy grail. In a Einat Nathan has a BA in law from Tel Aviv University, and has been certified by the Adler dramatic and difficult time for our industry, this book is a ray of light!!!” Institute and the Ministry of Education for Parental Instruction and Group Instruction. —Eran Zmora, CEO, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House in Israel AEVITAS 48 SOUL THERAPY (Previously titled INTIMACIES) The Art and Craft of Caring Conversations

By Thomas Moore WE May 2021 / HarperOne (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Michael Maudlin Edited MS Available

TheNew York Times bestselling author of the classic The Care of the Souladdresses the needs of those providing soul care to others—therapists, psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual directors, teachers, and even friends—sharing his insights for incorporating a spiritual or soulful dimension into their work and practices.

Soul Therapy is the culmination of Thomas Moore’s work. In this wise guide, he now returns to his core vocation: teaching practitioners—therapists, psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual directors, and others—how to offer soul care to those they assist. A training manual infused with a lifetime’s worth of wisdom, Soul Therapy is divided into five sections:

1) What therapy or “soul care” is and how it works; 2) What soul work is required of the helper to be able to address the needs of others; 3) How to access and move forward the spiritual dimension; 4) How to apply this work to specific areas, such as work, marriage, parenting, or teaching; 5) How to deal with other issues that arise, such as developing a therapeutic style, dealing with one’s shadow, and the need for self-care. “A profound book by a spiritual master, designed to help us care for others. Whether you’re a professional therapist or simply a friend wanting to help, Soul Profound yet practical, enlightened yet grounded in real-world experience, Soul Thera- Therapy will give you practical and proven advice on how to provide soul care.” py will become a definitive resource for caregivers and practitioners for years to come. —James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray

Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling Care of the Soul and twenty other “Moore is an authentic example of a new kind of therapist—a doctor of the soul—which books on spirituality and depth psychology. He has been practicing depth psycho- in our century has been in short supply.”—Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words therapy for thirty-five years. “With depth and wisdom, Thomas Moore makes plain the complicated business of Thomas Moore’s Previous Publishers: how one soul helps another. Everyone could use this sage counsel.”—Ian Morgan Czech (Emitos Spol) Simplified Chinese(Beijing Culture Development) Cron, author of The Road Back to You Dutch (AnkHermes) Spanish - LA (Oceano) Japanese (Kosmos) Spanish (Editions Urano) “Moore has done a great service by reinterpreting soul therapy as deep friendship —Robert Sardello, Director of Korean (SoSo) UK/Comm (S&S UK) —- not only with others but also with the world.” The School of Integral Spiritual Psychology Polish (Czarna Owca) AEVITAS 49 THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GROWING YOUNG An Insider’s Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan and What You Can Do Right Now By Sergey Young WE August 2021 / BenBella Books / US Editor: Glenn Yeffeth Edited MS Available

Soon, we can start thinking of aging as a curable condition instead of an inevitable process. A leader in the emerging field of longevity offers his perspective on what cutting-edge breakthroughs are on the horizon, as well as the practical steps we can take now to live healthily to 100 and beyond.

We all want to live long, healthy, and happy lives, but splashy headlines about stem- cell therapies and “young blood” transfusions make advances in anti-aging seem unattainable to all but the Silicon Valley billionaires among us, but in fact, we have more longevity resources at our disposal than we realize. Thankfully, industry insider Sergey Young demystifies the longevity landscape, cutting through the hype and showing readers what they can do now to live better for longer, and offering a look into the exciting possibilities that await us. By viewing aging as a condition that can be cured, we can dramatically revolutionize the field of longevity and make it accessible for everyone. Join Sergey Young as he gathers insights from world-leading health entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors, and inventors, providing a comprehensive look into the future of longevity in three horizons:

Horizon 1: 100 looks at what we already know and can easily implement to live to 100, distilling the science behind diet, exercise, sleep, mental health, and our envi- ronments into attainable habits and lifestyle hacks that anyone can adopt to vastly Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend improve their lives and workplaces. healthy lifespans of at least one billion people. To do that, Sergey founded Lon- gevity Vision Fund to accelerate life extension technological breakthroughs and to Horizon 2: 150 identifies the technological developments that will allow us to live make longevity affordable and accessible to all. Sergey is on the Board of Directors to 150—some of which are already in use—from AI-based diagnostics to gene edit- of the American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR) and the Development ing and organ regeneration, as well as their potential risks. Sponsor of Age Reversal XPRIZE global competition designed to cure aging. Sergey is also a Top 100 Longevity Leader who is transforming the world one Horizon 3: 200 offers a tour of the future of age reversal, and the exciting technol- workplace at a time with Longevity@Work—the first non-profit corporate lon- ogies that will allow us to live healthily to 200, from Internet of Bodies to digital gevity program of its kind. Sergey has been featured as a top longevity expert and avatars to AI-brain integration, as well as the ethical questions they raise. contributor on Fox News, BBC, Sky News, Forbes, and Thrive Global. Combining practical advice with an incredible overview of the brave new world to come, The Science and Technology of Growing Young redefines what it means to be human and to grow young. AEVITAS 50 TRUE AGE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE What Your Biology Reveals About Your Internal Age Reclaiming Clarity in a World of Noise

By Dr. Morgan Levine By Justin Zorn & Leigh Marz NA NA Spring 2022 / Avery (PRH) / US Editor: Caroline Avery Spring 2022 / HarperWave (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Karen Rinaldi Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Rights Sold: Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese (Chongqing) Brazilian Portuguese (Sextante) Polish (Znak) Korean (Wisdomhouse) UK/Comm (Yellow Kite / Hachette) Dutch (Thomas Rap / De Bezige Bij) Russian (Eskmo) What if there was a way to measure our biological age by scientifically calculating German (Mosaik / PRH Germany) UK/Commonwealth (Ebury / PRH UK) the age at which our body and internal systems are functioning—our True Age? Japanese (Toyo Keizai) And what if there were ways to slow down or even reverse the aging process? These Korean (Sigongsa) questions are at the heart of Dr. Morgan Levine’s groundbreaking True Age. A major “big think” book that looks at the science, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality of silence and will change the way you hear the world. As True Age will reveal, while we may be powerless against the march of time, our biological age is something we can affect.True Age shares with readers para- In The Secrets of Silence, Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz share what scientists, philos- digm-shifting news from the front lines of scientific studies in aging and longevity. ophers, spiritual practitioners, creatives, and businesspeople have discovered about Dr. Levine’s goal in True Age is to guide every reader toward developing personal the nature of silence. They look at the toll of noise on our bodies and minds and regimens, diets, and routines specifically tailored to keep them as young as pos- the scientific evidence for our need for quiet. Why are we letting silence slip away, sible—both inside and out. Poised to become the next major bestseller in the and what can we do stop it? Justin and Leigh offer answers to these questions and science, health, and wellness market, True Age provides readers and their doctors more, as they look to work of finding and ritualizing quiet for oneself through the unprecedented peak behind the curtain they need to identify their personalized several guiding principles. They examine how we can be quiet together—and create aging process and increase their “healthspan”—the years they spend free of disease group norms among colleagues, families, and partners. In the final section, they and disability. will present 30 practices that are flexible and adaptable tools shared by the broad range of people featured in the book. Dr. Morgan Elyse Levine, PhD, is a professor at Yale University’s School of Med- icine and runs her own lab aimed at developing the “Biomarkers of Aging.” Her Justin Zorn is a Truman National Security Fellow and a Senior Advisor for Eco- research has been featured in major outlets, including: The Guardian, Time Maga- nomic and Policy Research. He writes and lectures about how to bring ideas from zine, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and many others. True Age is her first contemplative spiritual traditions into the work of strategic planning in politics book. and management and helped launch a first-of its-kind mindfulness program in the US House of Representatives.

Leigh Marz specializes in working with scientists, engineers, and mission-driven organizations. She has designed training programs for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to promote an experimental mindset and collaboration amongst climate change teams. For the Green Policy Institute, Leigh facilitated cross-sector initiatives to reduce toxic chemicals in products, at retreats that included leaders from business, academia, regulatory agencies, and non-profits. AEVITAS 51 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE THE POWER OF THE DOWNSTATE Lessons from an Irregular Life Previously titled VITALITY

By Ken Dychtwald By Dr. Sara Mednick NA NA Spring 2022 / Unnammed Press / US Editor: Chris Heiser Fall 2022 / Hachette Go / US Editor: Renee Sedliar Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Over the decades, as a psychologist, gerontologist, social scientist, author, documen- Until now, the majority of us have felt overwhelmed by living a full life, whether tary filmmaker, and CEO of Age Wave, Ken Dychtwald has been investigating how that life includes a demanding full-time job, raising an active family; volunteering his own generation, the baby boomers, have been dealing with the challenges and for your community, or getting up at 5am to get a head start on the day. But what opportunities of adulthood, then middlescence, and now modern elderhood. Here he if we could do all of those things without burning out? What if the ability to restore collects the key lessons and stories that reflect the truths and values of an examined and refresh ourselves was endless and always at our fingertips? life, which multiple readerships will find appealing, including: Welcome to the power of the “Downstate,” a revolutionary new approach to *Baby Boomers: Members of this self-examining cohort, like Ken, continue trying health and personal optimization. Dr. Mednick has long been a leading voice in to make sense of their lives, figuring out how to remain relevant, and even re-in- describing the key role sleep plays in the formation of our long-term memories, the vent themselves in maturity. They are also actively sorting through the key ele- regulation of our emotions, the proper functioning of cardiovascular system and ments of their personal/collective legacies. the maintenance of overall good health. Now in Vitality, Mednick shows us that contrary to what established science has always told us, the sleep state is not the *Seekers and Self-Helpers: Ken’s personal, emotional, and spiritual journey has only place where our body and mind can replenish and recharge. In fact, the re- taken him deep into himself, and also the worlds of human potential, psychology, freshing “Downstate” that the body accesses during deep sleep exists at all times on mental health and illness, East/West religions, and psychotherapy. a cellular level in infinite ways, we just need to unlock this hidden energy source. Mednick’s revolutionary recovery program will show the reader how to maximize *Millennials and GenZ-ers: There is an increasing interest among today’s young their energy and achieve much-needed balance by making small, focused chang- generations about the music, mood, frustrations, rebellions, and dreams of their es every day. Her program includes key nutritional suggestions and intermittent folks’ cohort, which has activated a widespread and renewed appeal about the ideas fasting recommendations; strategic breathwork exercises; exercise options, sleep and mindful pursuits of an earlier pre-tech time. guidance and much more. Her holistic vision for healthy living will provide readers with the tools they need to achieve that harmony that nature intended. *Entrepreneurship/Business Narratives: In the story of the rise and fall and re-birth of Age Wave—and its associated companies—there is a remarkable business narra- Dr. Sara C. Mednick is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, tive of entrepreneurship and the lessons learned from some of the most successful Irvine, where she directs the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) lab. Her book, Take a Nap! business leaders, including Lee Iacocca, Lou Gerstner, and Peter Drucker. Change Your Life put forth the scientific basis for napping to improve productivity, cognition, mood, and health. A world-renowned scientist, Dr. Mednick’s lab has *Caregivers: Ken shares his experience of caring for his elder parents, and the book been continuously federally funded with approximately 5 million dollars in grants offers guidance, insight, and compassion for readers navigating similar challenges from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Department (and opportunities). of Defense Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Proj- ects Agency (DARPA), a United States Department of Defense agency. She has Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 been interviewed by every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York books on aging-related issues. Times, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and BBC. AEVITAS 52 OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN PLATONIC Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy How to Make and Keep Friends as an Adult

By Daniel T. Willingham By Marisa Franco NA NA Fall 2022 / Gallery (S&S) / US Editor: Karyn Marcus Fall 2022 / Putnam (PRH) / US Editor: Michelle Howry Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Rights Sold: Rights Sold: German (Ullstein) Korean (Woongjin Think Big) Simplified Chinese (Guomai) Dutch (Volt) UK/Comm (Bluebird / Pan Macmillan) Russian (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber) UK/Comm (Profile Books) Studies show that each generation is lonelier than the generation before it, and our friendship networks have been shrinking for the past 35 years. Covid-19 has only A true category-killer, an owner’s manual for how the brain works—sometimes driven us further into our homes and stripped us of spontaneous human interac- helping us, sometimes standing in our way—when we try to learn a new subject or tion, and this lack of social connection is taking its toll. revise for an exam. An enlightening and accessible guide, Platonic will draw upon vivid, relatable Outsmart Your Brain is written for a larger, general readership: adult students, storytelling bolstered by the latest psychological research to provide readers with a both college students and grad students; high schoolers; and, adults studying for clear and actionable blueprint for understanding the barriers that keep them from professional qualifications like the bar exam or the medical boards. It is packed forging strong, lasting connections with others. It will show them how to break with science that will show readers how to study more efficiently, how to save through those barriers to create, deepen, and maintain rewarding friendships across enormous amounts of time, how to vastly improve their grades, how to battle all stages of their lives. Franco will reveal that as much as today’s adults yearn to the brain mechanisms that lead to exam stress, and how to have more fun in the make new friends, to tap into the magic they once found in rich friendship-form- process. This book demolishes many common study practices, revealing how they ing periods of elementary school, high school, and college, they often feel lost once fool your brain into thinking you know more about a subject that you actually do, they’re out in the “real world,” unsure how to reboot and renew this friend-making at the same time it tells you how to marshal the unique advantages of your brain process. to learn effectively. To teachers, Dan is the “god” of high school learning. His 2010 Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About book, Whether they’ve just left college, are in their 30’s or 40’s or 50’s, or are entering the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom , has sold 70,000 physical book their years as seniors, they find themselves feeling lost, disconnected, and immo- Washington Post copies, hit the bestseller list six years after publication, and con- bilized, uncertain of where and how to make new friends. Platonic will offer just tinues to sell around 5,000-6,000 physical copies every year. It will be released in a warm, reassuring, confidence-building guidance they need to address these crip- new and updated edition in summer of 2021. pling feelings of insecurity and alienation—and it will give them a set of dynamic proven practices to help them step out of their isolation, to show the initiative and Dan Willingham , professor of cognitive science at the University of Virginia, is evince the social skills it takes to win and keep new friends. one of the most brilliant and prominent experts on learning in the world. He is New York Times well-known to readers through his opinion columns, which appear Marsia Franco has authored countless articles on friendship, social connection, every two to three months. He’s known to millions of teachers through his column and issues of diversity and inclusion in such publications as The New York Times, American Educator in , and to millions of students through his Youtube videos, Vice, The London Telegraph, and Scientific American. HerPsychology Today col- the Atlantic, the many of which exceed 800,000 in views. He has been quoted in umn on friendship averages more than 40,000 unique views per month, and she is New Yorker, Forbes, the Washington Post TIME, Life- (which he used to write for), highly sought after as a speaker and consultant. hacker and Real Simple, as well as in a huge list of overseas publications. AEVITAS 53 SENSITIVE The Power of a Soft Heart in an Era of Heartlessness

By Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo NA Fall 2022 / Harmony (PRH) / US Editor: Marnie Cochran Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Rights Sold: Brazilian Portuguese (Sextante) Norwegian (Strawberry Forlag) Dutch (Kosmos) Romanian (Grup Media Litera) Greek (Psichogios) Spanish (Grijalbo / PRH) Korean (Book 21) UK/Comm (Penguin Life) An optimistic and empowering guide, Sensitive will reframe sensitivity as a strength, rather than a weakness, and teach readers how to use this exceptional power to excel in spite of social upheaval, technological burnout, and civil unrest.

People who have been told they’re “too sensitive” their whole lives are instructed to toughen up, suck it up, and conform to outmoded stereotypes of leadership and masculinity. But what the world needs more of right now isn’t brute force and barriers: it’s empathy and understanding. Sensitive will destigmatize the notion that being sensitive is tantamount to weaknesses and inefficacy, reframing it as an admirable and tremendously valuable social strength. In much the same way Susan Cain’s Quiet empowered introverts to embrace their softer under-the-radar personalities, Sensitive will plant a gently fluttering flag in the ground for sensitive people everywhere, establishing all the ways that they have the opportunity, given their empathetic and perceptive powers, to transform the world and make it a better place for all of us. Providing tools for survival across several of the most important areas of readers’ lives—their friendships and relationships, their workplace interactions, and their experiences as parents—Sensitive will give them strategies for marshalling sensitivity as an asset that can actually make them more effective in each of these vital domains.

Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Jenn Granneman is the author of The Secret Life of Introverts, and Andre Sólo is an academic researcher and regular Psychology Today contributor. Be- tween them, they have written for or been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, the BBC, the Telegraph, Vogue, O, the Oprah Magazine, Vice, Glamour, and more. AEVITAS 54 UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION IN THIS PLACE TOGETHER A Palestinian’s Journey to Collective Liberation

By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz and Sulaiman Khatib NA April 2021 / Beacon Press / US Editor: Amy Caldwell Final PDF Available

A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple narratives, and imagination that touch on struggles for justice everywhere.

As a Palestinian youth, Sulaiman Khatib encountered the occupation in his village and attempted to fight back, stabbing an Israeli. Imprisoned at the age of 14, he began a process of political and spiritual transformation still unfolding today. In a book he asked Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, an American Jew, to write, and based on years of conversation between them, Khatib shares how his activism became deeply rooted in the belief that we must ground all work--from dialogue to direct action to healing--in recognition of the history and humanity of the other. He reveals how he became convinced that Palestinian freedom can flourish alongside Jewish connection to the land where he was born. In language that is poetic and unflinchingly honest, Eilberg-Schwartz and Khatib chronicle what led him to dedicate his life to joint nonviolence. In his journey, he encountered the deep injustice of torture, witnessed the power of hunger strikes, and studied Jewish history. Ultimately, he came to realize mutual recognition, alongside a transformation of the systems that governed their lives, was necessary for both Palestinians and Israelis to move forward. Still, as he built friendships with Israelis and resisted the occupation alongside STARRED REVIEW, KIRKUS REVIEWS them, he could not lose sight of the great power imbalance in the relationship, of “An engaging, hopeful lesson in how changing the conversation can actually all the violence and erasure still present as they dreamt forward together. Intimate change history.” and political, In This Place Together opens us up to the dangers and hopes of working with others across vast differences in power and experience. And it opens a new “As a Palestinian activist, I am proud to support In This Place Together. Khatib’s space, shapes a third narrative, and finds another world that can exist—though it’s story of gradually opening to the power and necessity of joint nonviolence is one often hard to see—inside this one. that all those who care about the future of Israel-Palestine should read.” —Mubarak Awad, founder of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonvio- Penina Eilberg-Schwartz is a member of IfNotNow, a movement working to trans- lence and Nonviolence International form the American Jewish community’s support for the occupation into a call for freedom and dignity for Palestinians, Israelis, and all people. “The next time someone asks you if there’s still hope for justice and peace in Israel Sulaiman Khatib was born in Hizma/Jerusalem and lives in Ramallah. He is and Palestine, just hand them this book.” cofounder of Combatants for Peace, a nonprofit Israeli/Palestinian peace-building —Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism organization. AEVITAS 56 CHASING THE THRILL Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt By Daniel Barbarisi NA June 2021 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Tim O’Connell Final PDF available

A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure hunt created by eccentric million- aire art dealer—and, some would say, robber baron—Forrest Fenn that became the stuff of contemporary legend.

When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure’s secret location. But he didn’t die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.

Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn’s hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn’s hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest. a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest. Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or But the mystery didn’t end there. tragedy—awaits.”—Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run

Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of “Chasing the Thrill swept me up from the start and pulled me into a treasure hunt desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure. of surprising strangeness and danger—all true!—written with an intoxicating mix of clear-eyed journalism and down-the-rabbit-hole obsession, a riptide of a book Daniel Barbarisi is the author of Dueling with Kings. He is currently a Senior Edi- right to the unexpected event at the end. What more is there to want?”—Michael tor at The Athletic, after years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journaland The Provi- Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods dence Journal. He resides with his wife and two sons outside Boston, Massachusetts. “A fast-paced testament to the extraordinary lengths some go for glory and adven- “Chasing the Thrill lives where all the best stories reside, on that thin edge between ture alike [...] This is a one-of-a-kind, brilliantly reported story about risking one’s amazing and impossible. Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another life and livelihood to chase a dream, and the ways destiny and desire are two sides era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, of the same golden coin.” —Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Feather Thief AEVITAS 57 CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSTLE Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets’ Superstars of Tomorrow By Matt Sullivan NA June 2021 / Dey Street (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Matthew Daddona Final PDF available

David Halberstam’s classic The Breaks of the Game meets Michael Lewis’ Money- ball for the modern age, in an award-winning journalist’s behind-the-scenes account from the epicenter of sports, social justice and coronavirus — a lasting chronicle of the historic 2019-2020 NBA season, by way of the notorious Brooklyn Nets and basketball’s renaissance as a cultural force beyond the game.

The Brooklyn Nets were already the most intriguing startup in sports: a team full of influencers, entrepreneurs and activists at the heart of American culture, starring the controversial Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But this dynasty-in-the-making got disrupted by the unforeseen. One tweet launched an international scandal pitting Brooklyn’s Chinese owner and the NBA’s commissioner against its players and LeBron James. Then came the death of Kobe Bryant, a tragic shock in an already turbulent season, as the league re-launched into a world of uncertainty with the entertainment business following its lead: Covid-19 and a new civil-rights movement put basketball’s role in society to the ultimate test — and no team intersected with the extremes of 2020 quite like the Brooklyn Nets.

Can’t Knock the Hustle crosses from on the court, where underdogs confront A-listers like Jay-Z and James Harden, to off the court, as players march through the streets of Brooklyn, provoke Donald Trump at the White House and fight for social justice from the NBA’s bubble experiment in Disney World.

Hundreds of interviews — with Hall-of-Famers, All-Stars, executives, coaches and Matt Sullivan has been an editor at The New York Times, The Guardian, The power-brokers from across the globe — provide a backdrop of the NBA’s impact Atlantic, Esquire and Bleacher Report. His work in sports, celebrity and investi- on social media, race, politics, health, fashion, fame and fandom, for a portrait of a gative journalism has been honored more than a dozen times by The Best Amer- time when sports brought us back together again, like never before. ican Sports Writing, the National Magazine Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Awards. A native New Yorker and graduate of Duke University, he lives with his wife, their daughter and their French bulldog.

AEVITAS 58 THE MEMORY THEIF And the Secrets Behind How We Remember: A Medical Mystery By Lauren Aguirre WE June 2021 / Pegasus Books / US Editor: Jessica Case Final PDF available

The remarkable true story of a team of doctors who – through years of scientific sleuthing and observant care—discover a surprising connection between opioids and memory, one that holds promise and peril for any one of us.

How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? The day neurologist Jed Barash sees the baffling brain scan of a young patient with devastating amnesia marks the beginning of a quest to answer those questions. First detected in a cluster of stigmatized opioid overdose victims in Massachusetts with severe damage to the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center—this rare syndrome reveals how the tragic plight of the unfortunate few can open the door to advances in medical science. After overcoming initial skepticism that investigating the syndrome is worth the effort—and that fentanyl is the likely culprit—Barash and a growing team of dedicated doctors explore the threat that people who take opioids chronical- ly as prescribed to treat severe pain may gradually put their memories at risk. At the same time, they begin to grasp the potential for this syndrome to shed light on the most elusive memory thief of all—Alzheimer’s disease.

Through the prism of this fascinating story, Aguirre goes on to examine how researchers tease out the fundamental nature of memory and the mysteries still to be “The roller-coaster speed of a first-rate suspense novel while simultaneously -of solved. Where do memories live? Why do we forget most of what happens in a day fering a deeply compassionate and insightful look at our understanding of what but remember events with stunning clarity years later? How real are our memories? makes and what breaks human memory.”—Deborah Blum, best-selling author And what purpose do they actually serve? Perhaps the greatest mystery in The Mem- of The Poison Squad ory Thief is why Alzheimer’s has evaded capture for a century even though it afflicts tens of millions around the world and lies in wait for millions more. Aguirre deftly “This is a story of human frailty, heroic perseverance and, ultimately, hope. She explores this question and reveals promising new strategies and developments that gained the trust of all involved—the dogged researchers and the patients grasping may finally break the long stalemate in the fight against this dreaded disease. But at at their fading memories. The result is a deeply reported, remarkable narrative.”— its core, Aguirre’s genre-bending and deeply-reported book is about paying attention David Baron, author of American Eclipse to the things that initially don’t make sense—like the amnestic syndrome—and how “Truly a masterful synthesis of a large and diverse body of research and clini- these mysteries can move science closer to an ever-evolving version of the truth. cal lore. Aguirre beautifully brings to life the people behind the research in this excellent and compelling story of medical discovery. I greatly enjoyed reading The Lauren Aguirre is a graduate of MIT and built a career as an award-winning docu- Memory Thief.”—Bradford C. Dickerson, director of the Frontotemporal Disor- mentary filmmaker and science producer at the PBS Series NOVA. ders Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital AEVITAS 59 THE POWER OF STRANGERS The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

By Joe Keohane NA July 2021 / Random House (PRH) / US Editor: Mark Warren Final PDF Available Rights Sold: Complex Chinse (BWP) Korean (Across Publishing) Dutch (HarperCollins Holland) Romanian (Grup Media Litera) German (Goldmann) Russian (Eksmo) Hebrew (Matar) UK/Comm (Viking UK) Simplified Chinese (CITIC) An interrogation of why we don’t talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and well-being, in the tradition of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.

Journalist Joe Keohane takes us through an inquiry into our shared history, one that offers surprising and compelling insights into our own social and political moment. But if strangers seem to some to be the problem, history, data, and science show us that they are actually our solution. In fact, throughout human history, our address to the stranger, the foreigner, the marginalized, and the other has determined the fate and well-being of both nations and individuals. A raft of new science confirms that the more we open ourselves up to encounters with those we don’t know, the healthier we are.

Modern cities are vast clusters of strangers. Technology has driven many of us into Part sweeping history, part thought-provoking self-help, The Power of Strangersis silos of isolation. Through deep immersion with sociologists, psychologists, neu- an ambitious and provocative work that will for the first time bring together all the roscientists, theologians, philosophers, political scientists and historians, Keohane history, science, and varying schools of thought on the idea of strangers, from the learns about how we’re wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers; Torah to the Trumps. Deeply researched, The Power of Strangers will inspire you to what happens to us--as individuals, groups, and as a culture--when we indulge those see everything--from major geopolitical shifts to banal trips to the corner store--in biases; and at the same time, he digs into a growing body of cutting-edge research an entirely new light. on the surprising social and psychological benefits that come from talking to strangers; how even passing interactions with strangers can enhance empathy, happiness, Joe Keohane is a veteran journalist who has held high-level editing positions at and cognitive development, ease loneliness and isolation, and root us in the world, Medium, Esquire, Entrepreneur, and Hemispheres. His writing—on everything from deepening our sense of belonging; how paradoxically, strangers can help us become politics, to travel, to social science, business, and technology—has appeared in New more fully ourselves. Keohane explores the ways in which biology, culture, and his- York magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Wired, Bostonmagazine, The New tory have defined us and our understanding of people we don’t know. Republic, and several textbooks.

AEVITAS 60 INSIDE COMEDY The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades By David Steinberg WE July 2021 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Victoria Wilson Final PDF available

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades, by the manthe New York Times calls “a comic institution himself,” the only comedian to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but who’s counting), director of TV comedy series Mad About You, Seinfeld, Friends, Weeds and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

From David Steinberg, a rabbi’s son from Winnipeg, Canada, who at age fifteen en- rolled at Hebrew Theological College in Chicago (the rabbinate wasn’t for him) and four years later, entered the master’s program in English literature at the University of Chicago, until he saw Lenny Bruce, the “Blue Boy” of Comedy, the coolest guy Steinberg had ever seen, and joined Chicago’s Second City improvisational group, becoming, instead, the comedian’s comedian, director, actor, working with, inspired by, teaching, and learning from the most celebrated, admired, complicated comedians, then and now--a funny, moving, provocative, insightful look into the soul, wit, and bite of comedy and comedians--a universe unto itself--of the last half-century.

From the greats: George Burns, Lenny Bruce, Sid Caesar, Lucille Ball, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, et al., to the newer greats: Carol Burnett, Steve Martin, Lily Tom- lin, Billy Crystal, Bob Newhart, and the man for all comedy, Martin (Marty) Short; to the greats of right now: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wanda Sykes; and more . . .

Steinberg, through stories, reminiscences, tales of directing, touring, performing, and, through the comedians themselves talking (from more than 75 interviews), makes clear why he loves comedy and comedians who have been by his side in his work, and in his life, for more than sixty years.

Here are: Will Ferrell, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, Mike Myers, Groucho himself and the greatest of them all (at least of the last half century), Jonathan Winters . . .

David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author.

AEVITAS 61 SQUIRREL HILL PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women Neighborhood By Hugo Huerta Marin By Mark Oppenheimer NA WE October 2021 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Jonathan Segal October 2021 / Prestel Publishing / US Editor: Anna Godfrey Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2020 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2021

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of a singular community in the Rights Sold: wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Amer- Korean (Anne’s Library) icans must confront on the road to healing. This remarkable book brings you face-to-face with an incredible selection of pio- Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, neering women who have reshaped the creative industries. known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping From legendary visual artists Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin, to groundbreaking at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack musicians like Annie Lennox and Debbie Harry, to fashion giants such as Miuc- in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed cia Prada and Diane von Fürstenberg, this collection of original interviews and by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppen- Polaroid photographs of almost 30 trailblazing women spans creative industries, heimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and in- nationalities and generations to bring together a never-before- published collection stead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He of leading voices. Featuring an astounding range of names including FKA Twigs, speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, Isabelle Huppert and Rei Kawakubo, this book creates both a portrait of each teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Together, these stories provide a individual woman and – collectively – a powerful portrait of the impact of women kaleidoscopic and nuanced account of collective grief, love, support, and revival. on the creative industries. But Oppenheimer also details the difficult dialogue and messy confrontations that Squirrel Hill had to face in the process of healing, and that are a necessary part of Each pioneering creative is interviewed and photographed by the Mexican artist true growth and understanding in any community. He has reverently captured the Hugo Huerta Marin. The women speak openly with Huerta Marin about their vibrancy and caring that still characterize Squirrel Hill, and it is this phenomenal challenges and joys; their vulnerabilities and their triumphs. Cate Blanchett reflects resilience that can provide inspiration to any place burdened with discrimination on the differences between acting on stage and in film; Marina Abramović discuss- and hate. es her most radical piece of performance art; Annie Lennox reminisces about Lon- don in the 1970s; Carrie Mae Weems discusses the relationship between race and Mark Oppenheimer directs the Yale Journalism Initiative and is a lecturer in photography --these and other conversations are further brought to life by Huerta Yale’s English department, political science department, and Divinity Schools. He Marin’s candid, intimate Polaroid images. These photographs, which allow readers received his B.A. and his Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale. He was the religion to lock eyes with their subjects, reflect the natural tone of each conversation, allow- columnist for The New York Times from 2010 to 2016 and has written for The New ing the reader rare insight into the lives of these renowned artists. Inspiring and re- York Times Magazine, GQ, The Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, vealing, this collection of interviews and photographs gives readers an unparalleled and The Believer, among others. He has been a commentator on NPR and is also connection with some of the most fascinating women working in the arts today. the host of Tablet magazine’s podcast, “Unorthodox.” He is the author of four books, including The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia. He lives in New Haven, Con- Hugo Huerta Marin is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer based in necticut. New York City, whose work centers on subjects of gender and cultural identity.

AEVITAS 62 DEMOCRACY’S DATA NOSTALGIA And How to Read It How Emotions Shape Who We Are and What We Believe By Dan Bouk NA By Amanda R. Martinez NA Spring 2022 / MCD Books, FSG (Macmillan) / US Editor: Sean McDonald Spring 2022 / St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) / US Editor: Tim Bartlett Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021

In what promises to be an original and beautifully written work of history Rights Sold: comes the story the 1940 US census. Brazilian Portuguese (HarperCollins) UK/Commonwealth (S&S UK) Korean (Across Publishing) Seventy-two years after each census, all of the responses and the records pertaining to its execution become public for anyone to read—1940 is the most recent tally Nostalgia is the first book to examine the emotion—and now, cultural phenome- to be made available in this way. Unlike today’s very brief questionnaire, 1940’s non—in all its complex facets. consisted of thirty questions, producing millions of census sheets filled with details about more than 100 million individuals. That year, the census bureau logged It’s clear that a positive wave of nostalgia has taken hold as a cultural phenom- some 4 billion answers to those questions—one could say that the era of Big Data enon, and it is a far cry from the dangerous manipulation by demagogues who was born then. Democracy’s Data reveals the work of the clerks who struggled to exploit the emotion to advance their populist agendas. In Nostalgia, Amanda R. manufacture the nation’s facts as war loomed on the horizon. Here we witness the Martinez crosses the globe where she meets people who shared anecdotes of their labor of thousands of skilled women, many of them African American. We also own golden age, and discovered nostalgia playing out in wondrous ways. She tours learn, despite promises to the contrary, how civilian data was converted into a with a Grateful Dead tribute band followed by thousands of fans; dines at a theme dangerous weapon after Pearl Harbor. The census of 1940 ushered the nation into restaurant in Beijing, where patrons sit at schoolroom desks and “take” the menu a new era of statistical prediction. It also revealed a massive undercount of African as a multiple-choice test; and learns that the new hot commodity in Germany is a Americans, a significant bias in the official records that underscores the residues junker of a car produced during WWII. that oppression and inequality leave even in democracy’s data. In addition to an eye-opening and entertaining understanding of the universal Data gets a lot of hype these days, and for good reason. It affects everything from experience of nostalgia, readers will gain insight into how to harness the benefits which of our friends’ posts we see on Facebook, to what movies Netflix thinks of nostalgia for their own well-being. Nostalgia is a landmark book for readers we might like, and what ads we are served. Corporations transform it into cash, fascinated by the best-selling work of Daniel Kahneman, Stephen Pinker, Daniel market share, and capital; governments turn to it to fight outbreaks of disease, Gilbert, and Sherry Turkle. secure borders, streamline bureaucracies, or influence their rivals’ elections. In this day and age, who can deny the value of personal data and the power that accrues Amanda R. Martinez is the previous author of Battle at the End of Eden. Her arti- to those who wield it? And having seen how it can be politicized, whether through cles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Scientific American. misuse, hacking or targeting, how can we not be skeptical? But these are not new questions. The data-related problems we encounter in a typical Twitter feed today—surveillance capitalism, government invasion of privacy; data breaches; calls to count only count citizens, or otherwise biased data among others—all existed in 1940.

Dan Bouk is an award winning histrorian. AEVITAS 63 CURE-ALL SPOKEN WORD Diagnosing the Modern Wellness Epidemic A Cultural History

By Amy Larocca By Joshua Bennett NA NA Fall 2022 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Lexy Bloom Fall 2022 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Deb Garrison Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Summer 2021

In Cure-All, Amy offers a nuanced portrait of the weird world of wellness, its en- The first book for a general audience that will unspool the human story of spoken gines, its strategies, and its snake oil salesmen. She has found that beneath the sur- word poetry and the dramas, events, and characters that have defined one of the face, wellness expresses something thorny and profound about the modern world. most vibrant and influential art forms.

Amy will peel back the layers of the wellness movement and reckon with its prom- Anyone who encountered Homer in high school knows that poetry began as an ises and profits. Her mission is to combine cultural anthropology and memoir to oral tradition, that its power was couched not on the page but in the telling. This entertain and enlighten anyone who’s tried an acroyoga class, contemplated cutting tradition weaves through many different cultures and periods in history, but its red meat out of their diet, or investigated the benefits of healing crystals.Cure- modern American incarnation can be traced precisely to New York’s Nuyorican All will take readers into the communities that swear by their activated charcoal Poets Café of the 1970s, where marginalized poets gathered to share their work toothpaste and green juice enemas. Throughout, Amy will hold a magnifying glass aloud. From this impassioned, purpose-built venue, the form dubbed spoken word to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions and present her inci- has penetrated communities and networks across the country as an instrument of sive assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class-based, poetic expression, arts education, and political activism. racialized) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys upon our unshakeable fear of the unknown. Today, competitive poetry slam events—in schools and community centers and on a national and global professional circuit—attract thousands of participants, and Amy Larocca is the Fashion Editor-at-Large for New York Magazine where she videos of spoken word performances rack up millions of views online. Linguistic has identified trends and uncovered the machinations of the zeitgeist in award-win- and performance techniques that were first honed in spoken word are evident in ning narratives, essays, and profiles. Her journalism and essays have appeared the hip-hop and rap we hear on the radio, and writers and artists who got their in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Allure, Glamour, Esquire, The Times of start at open mic nights have earned the literary world’s top honors. Nowhere is London, and The London Review of Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, poetry more alive than in spoken word, and its progeny. the theatre director Will Frears, and their two children. Joshua Bennett is a poet, spoken word performer, and Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. His first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School(Penguin Books, 2016), was the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series.

AEVITAS 64 MAGIC TO DO THE KINGDOM OF PREP The Fantastic, Fraught Creative Synergy That Brought How the Merchant Prince Created a Fashion Queen Pippin to Broadway and Lost the J. Crew Empire By Elysa Gardner WE By Maggie Bullock NA Fall 2022 / Applause Books / US Editor: John Cerullo Fall 2022 / Dey Street (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Jessica Sindler Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

What began as a student project became the propulsion point for some of the 20th The Kingdom of Prep is the perfect marriage of entertainment, industry analysis, century’s biggest stars—Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, and Jill Clayburgh, to name and cultural commentary. a few—and planted a signpost at the crossroads of popular culture and musical theater that resonates to this day. The Kingdom of Prep will open with Arthur Cinader, a man from a modestly successful, sort of down-market retailing family, founded J. Crew. He wasn’t a true In Magic To Do, which will be published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of prepster—he didn’t come from old money or graduate from the Ivy league, but the Pippin’s opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize jury member, Elysa Gardner turns her at- social-climbing Arthur really wished he had. Enter J. Crew—true prep clothing tention to this innovative show, the musical retelling of the story of Prince Pippin, at a price point regular people could access, but so perfectly designed and quali- son of Charlemagne, and his quest for an “extraordinary life.” Magic To Do will ty-made that the real prepsters would covet it too. His mercurial daughter Emily dive deep into the legendary clashes, backstage drama, and incredible artistic syn- became the head designer and was so genius in that role that before long, J. Crew ergy that produced one of Broadway’s most influential musicals, a show that paved was an $800 million retail fashion gorilla in need of a businessperson who could the way for the pop-informed musicals (and their creators) that we know and love not only handle such a scale, but grow it. today. Full of big personalities, brilliant creative minds, and never-before-told behind the scenes stories, Magic To Do is an intimate look at a moment in history, a Enter Mickey Drexler and a young designer named Jenna Lyons. Jenna would time and a place in which popular culture was as defined by conflict—between the eventually become president of the company and achieve real fame as one of the young and the old, idealism and cynicism, creation and destruction—as anything very first influencers. At J. Crew’s apex, Anna Wintour, Michelle Obama, Beyon- else. Gardner will draw out this friction through her examination of the creative cé, and Solange Knowles were all fans and customers. And in the final part,The struggles between Pippin’s director/choreographer, the iconic Bob Fosse, for whom Kingdom of Prep will show how those trends also portended the biggest shift of all: the show would mark a massive career resurgence, and its young composer/lyricist, the death of the mall. The story of J. Crew is the story of the retail fashion world Stephen Schwartz (of Wicked fame), who was making his Broadway debut. The and culture over the past four decades, with the most riveting characters and best stuff of Broadway lore, the substantial disputes between Fosse and Schwartz—in- clothes imaginable. tegral to the crafting and staging of Pippin and peaking at the point of arbitration over Prince Pippin’s last lines—will be grounded in Schwartz’s own perspective. Maggie Bullock is a journalist and former Condé Nast editor who has written for The last surviving member of Pippin’s core artistic team, Schwartz has offered The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue. Gardner access to his archival notes and material.

Elysa Gardner currently covers cabaret for the New York Times and has at various points been a regular contributor to The New Yorker (as “Night Life” columnist), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and VH1. Formerly the theater and music critic for USA Today, she, and her writing, have also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Vibe, Billboard, Town & Country, Out, American Theatre, and others.

AEVITAS 65 GOOD COP OSCAR WARS One Year, Four Departments, An Apology, and the Future of Policing in America By Michael Schulman By Neil Gross NA NA Fall 2022 / Metropolitan (Macmillan) / US Editor: Riva Hocherman Fall 2022 / HarperCollins / US Editor: Eli Bortz Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Good Cop will be the result of Neil Gross’s on-the-ground, meticulous research, a Rights Sold: book that asks the critical question: What makes a good cop? Polish (Marginesy) Romanian (SC Publica)

Long before Neil Gross was a respected public intellectual, he was a beat cop on Oscar Wars promises to be the definitive book on the Academy Awards, from a devo- the streets of Berkeley, California. Just 21 years old and fresh out of UC Berkeley, tee and expert who has spent years covering the glitz, glamour, buzz, and drama for Neil wanted to make his hometown streets safer. He thought he knew what it The New Yorker magazine. would take to be the kind of upstanding cop. And then late one hot summer night, he found himself devastatingly on the wrong end of the good cop equation. That In an era that has seen Hollywood’s de facto governing body reckon with itself and experience changed him irrevocably, and led him out of law enforcement and back its choices—see the #OscarsSoWhite callouts of recent years, and Moonlight’s Best into academia. Picture coup during the 2016 ceremony—Michael will guide readers through the most contentious Oscar races and the most surprising Oscars lore. At once cultural As a sociologist, Neil Gross kept policing firmly in his sights, but he rarely talked history and character-driven story, the book will examine the moments, stars, and about his own time on the job. Then one day, a student challenged Neil with a themes that have cemented the awards at the center of our cultural conversation, question: How, exactly, would we know good policing if we saw it? Neil realized that ensuring that whatever the context, the Oscars represent more than the Oscars. not only did nobody have the answer to this critical question, but nobody was even asking it. How can we not be asking that in this moment of unrest and change? Michael Schulman is the previous author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep. A Neil Gross decided that he would be the one to answer this question. To do it, he journalist at The New Yorker covering culture and the arts, he has written features, would return to the streets and face not just his own past as a cop but actually find reviews, and over 50 “Talk of the Town” pieces. He is also the theatre editor of and profile the individual cops and departments across the US that are doing mea- Goings on About Town, and an ongoing contributor to the New York Times. surable good despite the incredibly daunting odds almost every cop faces.

Neil Gross is the Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Colby College in Maine and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.

AEVITAS 66 GRACE KILLING THATCHER A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten Days in the The IRA Conspiracy to Assassinate the Iron Lady, the Biggest Battle for America Manhunt in British History, and the Long War on the Crown By Cody Keenan NA By Rory Carroll NA Fall 2022 / Sugar23 (HMH) / US Editor: Deanne Urmy Spring 2023 / Putnam (PRH) / US Editor: Mark Tavani Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022

Speechwriter for Barack Obama since 2007, rising from a campaign intern in Rights Sold: Chicago to chief speechwriter at the White House, Cody Keenan tells the story of Spanish (Ariel / Planeta) UK/Comm (Mudlark / HC UK) 10 days in America in June 2015, when President Obama and Keenan together composed critical speeches to meet a whirlwind of dramatic moments. The IRA bomb exploded at 2:54am on October 12, 1984, the last day of the Con- servative Party Conference in Brighton. It ripped a hole in the Grand Hotel, killing From June 17 to June 26, 2015, President Obama, with Cody in the collaborative 5 people, and trapping and wounding dozen. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher driver’s seat, composed a series of high-profile remarks including one of the most was in the lounge of her suite, still up, preparing her keynote speech, when the ex- forthright and soulful speeches of Obama’s career—his riveting eulogy to the vic- plosion occurred. Had she been in the bathroom, death would have extinguished the tims of the horrific Charleston Church massacre. Even as he mustered the courage Iron Lady in her prime and left her revolution unfinished. and found the words to give one of his most impassioned speeches ever, even as the country grappled anew with the Confederate flag and the demons of our history, It was the most spectacular attack linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the President, together with his Cabinet and staff, prepared themselves and the the most daring conspiracy against the British Crown since the Gunpowder Plot nation for the Supreme Court to announce two long-awaited landmark cases: King of 1605, when English Catholics tried to blow up the House of Lords during the v. Burwell on critical provisions of the Affordable Care Act and Obergefell v. Hodges state opening of Parliament. In Killing Thatcher, the road to Brighton starts five on whether same-sex couples have the right to marry under the United States Con- years earlier with the shocking assassination of Lord Louis “Dickie” Mountbatten, stitution. As spring gave way to summer, President Obama would see his vision for blown up on his fishing boat in 1979. The IRA claimed responsibility, calling it an inclusive, equitable, and compassionate America triumph over the alternative. an “execution.” No one was safe. Thatcher, newly elected, made a fateful decision about how Britain would handle the IRA. The government would strip the orga- Told through Cody’s up-close perspective not just as a trusted aide but cherished nization of political recognition and treat its members not as enemy combatants thought partner, Grace is at once a compulsively readable narrative and a primer on but as common criminals, hoodlums, and thugs. Her policy set in motion a series the elusive craft and ceaseless struggle that is great writing. Grace will give readers a of events that culminated in the IRS secretly sentencing the world’s most powerful touchingly intimate portrait of an ever-demanding though preternaturally empath- woman to death. ic and fatherly President Obama. At the same time, it will tell a page-turning story about one of the most fraught and trying, yet also exciting and historically import- An age of relative innocence that believed terrorism could reach only so far, inflict ant periods of his two-term presidency. Grace will include never-before-seen drafts only so much damage, was over. In Killing Thatcher, veteran journalist Rory Car- of speeches (featuring the president’s handwritten edits) and candid photographs roll reveals the full, heretofore untold story of what actually happened – the genesis chronicling their friendship and working relationship, none of which have been of the plot, the planning, the execution, and aftermath of the biggest manhunt in made public before. British history.

Cody Keenan has been a speechwriter for President Barack Obama since 2007, Rory Carroll is a veteran journalist, award-winning author and currently the Ire- rising from a campaign intern in Chicago to Assistant to the President and Direc- land correspondent for The Guardian. tor of Speechwriting at the White House. AEVITAS 67 EDITING WE DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE How Novels, Paintings, Songs, Movies, Speeches, and Sal- A Journey into the Heart, Science, Politics, and ads Became What They Are Possibilities of Change By Adam Moss NA By Benoit Denizet-Lewis NA Spring 2023 / Penguin Press (PRH) / US Editor: Ann Godoff Spring 2024 / William Morrow (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Mauro DiPreta Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2023

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Adam Moss will demystify the editing process and lay bare the evolution of various Benoit Denizet-Lewis investigates how and why we change our behaviors, identi- cultural creations, from books to logos to buildings to pieces of clothing, among ties, and beliefs during a time of staggering cultural and demographic upheaval. many other things that start as a notion and end up a fully realized piece. We Don’t Even Know You Anymore will begin by transporting readers into the lives High-concept yet intuitive: visual documents of creative interventions—a marked- of four people actively embarking on journeys to transform their lives, personal- up page, an early sketch, a contact sheet—presented alongside conversations in ities, identities, and brains. Denizet-Lewis will explore the different pathways to which the creators talk to him about how they stumbled from intuition to finished change, examining the validity and effectiveness of unexpected radical change, work. Adam will involve artists across a wide array of disciplines—writers, film- therapeutic change, change facilitated by life coaches, and pharmacological inter- makers, architects, chefs, graphic designers—to explore a thesis about the power ventions. He will also explore the intersection of personal change, social change, of revision, delivered within an oversized, highly designed book that will fascinate, and public policy, exploring how some of our most dearly held (and often mistak- enlighten, and inspire its readers. Spending time with Editing will be akin to eaves- en) cultural and political beliefs about sexuality, incarceration, economic mobility, dropping on a galaxy of cultural stars having intimate discussions about the genesis and political persuasion make change possible for some—while keeping it out of and refinement of their most iconic achievements. The book should be a gorgeous reach for many. In the final part of the book, Denizet-Lewis will return to the four artifact in itself that readers will be excited to page through and to own. He intends characters who have embarked on journeys of transformation and report on the for his book to be as beautiful as it is instructive and inspiring to anyone interested ways in which they’ve succeeded and failed, revealing the insights they’ve learned— in the subject of creativity. and we’ve learned—along the way.

Adam Moss spent 15 years at New York magazine and New York Media as edi- Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a longtime contributing writer at The New York Times tor-in-chief. During his tenure, New York won 41 National Magazine Awards, Magazine and a tenured professor at Emerson College including Magazine of the Year. Prior to New York, Moss was the editor of The New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and later oversaw the Magazine, Book Review and Culture and Style sections. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019. Adam’s decision to step down from New York spurred tributes and interviews across a number of major publications, from NPR and CNN to The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and Columbia Journalism Review. The New York Times declared that “his editorial ethos—curious, skeptical, attuned to the pleasures of consumerism and the anxieties of urban life— permanently reshaped several of the country’s most prominent publications.”

AEVITAS 68 UPCOMING HISTORY WILD MINDS The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation By Reid Mitenbuler NA December 2020 / Grove/Atlantic Final PDF Available

“Wild Minds is a thoroughly captivating behind-the-scenes history of classic Amer- ican animation, full of breezy stories of the great artists who went crazy making the brilliant cartoons we all know and love. A must-read for all fans of the medium.”— Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsonsand Futurama

In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” itself inspired by Freud’s recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.’ Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations—from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia—which became an integral part and reflection of American culture over the next five decades. Pre-television, animated cartoons were aimed squarely at adults; comic preludes to movies, they were often “little hand grenades of social and political satire.” Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity; Popeye stories contained sly references to the injustices of unchecked capitalism. “During its first half-century,” Mitenbuler writes, “animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the STARRED REVIEW, KIRKUS REVIEW influence of art and media on society.” During WWII it also played a significant role “The narrative crackles with captivating charm, adding color and nuance to a cast in propaganda. The Golden Age of animation ended with the advent of television, of familiar cartoon faces . . . Like a one-man animation department, [Mitenbuler] when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to children and help advertisers sell sugary effortlessly renders both celluloid and background. A finely drawn history of a breakfast cereals. Wild Minds is an ode to our colorful past and to the creative ener- critical period in the history of animation.” gy that later inspired The Simpsons, South Park, and BoJack Horseman.

Reid Mitenbuler is the author of Bourbon Empire. His writing has appeared in the “[A] lively history of the first half-century of animation [...] The arc of Wild Minds Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Slate, Quartz, Salon, and other publications. is appropriately weird, full of high-flown aspirations and zany anecdotes.”—NYT

STARRED REVIEW, PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY “A colorful chronology of the first 50 years of American animated film. Juicy tales “Journalist Mitenbuler casts the creators of animated cartoons as characters them- abound about the films and the wildly imaginative people who made them. Mr. selves in this rollicking history of the first 50 years of animation ...] In snappy prose, Mitenbuler tells their stories with relish and clarity.”—Wall Street Journal Mitenbuler writes a history rich with personalities. This Technicolor tour de force is impossible to put down.” “Wild Minds assembles its history with love and a sense of occasion” —New Yorker AEVITAS 70 INTELLIGENT LOVE The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother By Marga Vicedo NA March 2021 / Beacon Press / US Editor: Joanna Green Final PDF Available

How one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parents.

In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly.

Refusing to accept this, Clara decided to document her daughter’s behaviors and the family’s engagement with her. In 1967, she published her groundbreaking memoir challenging the refrigerator mother theory and carefully documenting Jessy’s development. Clara’s insights and advocacy encouraged other parents to seek education and support for their autistic children. Meanwhile, Jessy would work hard to expand her mother’s world, and ours.

Drawing on previously unexamined archival sources and firsthand interviews, “[A] thoroughly researched and reported history of autism . . . Expect to boo for science historian Marga Vicedo illuminates the story of how Clara Park and other the mother-blamers and to cheer for the entire Park family.”—Booklist parents fought against medical and popular attitudes toward autism while present- ing a rich account of major scientific developments in the history of autism in the “Vicedo’s compelling subject is the tension, even incompatibility, between maternal US. Intelligent Love is a fierce defense of a mother’s right to love intelligently, the love and scientific reason that plagues the history of autism. This book is a vehicle value of parents’ firsthand knowledge about their children, and an individual’s right for exploring profound questions about the meaning of love, intelligence, and to be valued by society. disability in our cultural history.”—Evelyn Fox Keller, professor emerita, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Making Sense of Life Marga Vicedo, PhD, is a philosopher and historian of science. She is a professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches and writes about the history of biology, “A vital book that illustrates the complex and unsettling history of persecution that psychology, and psychiatry since the turn of the twentieth century. She is on the autistic people and their families have suffered through the ages [...] Read it, you editorial board of numerous journals, including the Review of General Psychology and won’t be disappointed.”—Emma Dalmayne, CEO of Autistic Inclusive Meets Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and is the author of The Nature and and author of It’s an Autism Thing . . . I’ll Help You Understand It Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America. AEVITAS 71 MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

By Julian Sancton NA May 2021 / Crown (PRH) / US Editor: Kevin Doughten Final PDF Available Rights Sold: Dutch (Hollandsdiep) Polish (Media Rodzina) German (Piper) UK/Comm (WH Allen/PRH UK) Italian (Corbaccio) The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry. In vivid, hair-raising prose, Sancton recounts the myriad forces that drove these men right up to and over the brink of madness.

In August 1897, commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail aboard the Belgica, fueled by a profound sense of adventure and dreams of claiming glory for his native Bel- gium. His destination: the icy continent of Antarctica. But the commandant’s plans for a three-year expedition to reach the magnetic South Pole would be thwarted at each turn. As the ship progressed into the freezing waters, the captain had to make a choice: turn back and spare his men the potentially devastating consequences of getting stuck, or recklessly sail deeper into the ice pack to chase glory and fame. He sailed on, and the Belgica soon found itself stuck fast in the icy hold of the Antarctic continent. The ship would winter on the ice. Plagued by a mysterious, debilitating illness and besieged by monotony, the crew deteriorated as their their hope of escape “Polar exploration was the space travel of its day. [...] A riveting tale, splendidly dwindled daily. As winter approached the days grew shorter, until the sun set on told.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer–winning author ofThe Witchesand Cleopatra the magnificent polar landscape one last time, condemning the ship’s occupants to months of quarantine in an endless night. Among them Frederick Cook, an Amer- “[M]ore than an adventure story, Madhouse is a remarkable chronicle of the outer ican doctor—part scientist, part adventurer whose unorthodox methods delivered limits of human endurance, of the strengths both physical and mental that enabled many of the crew from the gruesome symptoms of scurvy. Then Roald Amundsen, a small band of explorers, trapped in Antarctic ice for over a year, to survive against a young Norwegian who went on to become a polar explorer in his own right, the odds while others did not.”—Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia leading the first expeditions to traverse the Northwest Passage. Drawing on firsthand and The Quiet Americans accounts of the Belgica’s voyage and exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, Sancton tells the tale of its long, isolated imprisonment on the ice—a story that NASA stud- “At once a riveting survival tale and a terrifying psychological thriller, Madhouse ies today in its research on isolation for missions to Mars. at the End of the Earth is a mesmerizing, unputdownable read. It deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing’s immortal classic Endurance.”—Nathaniel Philbrick, New Julian Sancton is a senior features editor at Departures magazine. His work has York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Yorker, Wired, and Playboy, among others. AEVITAS 72 THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS HOW TRAILBLAIZING WOMEN HARNESSED THE POWER OF HOME AND CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE By Danielle Dreilinger NA May 2021 / W.W. Norton / US Editor: Amy Cherry Final PDF Available

The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand- sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as profes- sors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.

In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinatingThe Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women—and they were mostly women—became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education.

Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides “[A] revelation. That secret history is rich with gender and race issues, and opened taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also the eyes of this former home ec student. It will open yours too.”—Ann Hood, looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, author of The Knitting Circle share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages.This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it “A fascinating work of history, extensively researched, on a subject long ignored: reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, how home economics helped shaped American life. Full of delicious anecdotes, and fight for a better world. [...] makes the case that home ec, often maligned and misunderstood, always pro- vided students regardless of gender with skills that make life better, and should be Danielle Dreilinger is a former New Orleans Times-Picayune education reporter and revived.”—Nancy Jo Sales, author of American Girls a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow. She also wrote for the Boston Globe and worked “[G]ives us a new group of women to admire and learn from [...] with a timely at the Boston NPR station WGBH. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. call to bring back home-economics courses as a mandatory part of education. Her book will convince you that this field of study should be restored to its proper “A fresh contribution to women’s history and a resurrection of contributions too place in STEAM education for all.”—Katherine Sharp Landdeck, author of The often overlooked.”—Kirkus Reviews Women with Silver Wings AEVITAS 73 FIRST TO FALL Elijah Lovejoy’s Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery

By Ken Ellingwood NA May 2021 / Pegasus Books / US Editor: Jessica Case Final PDF Available

A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero—an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery.

The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as “enemies of the people.” In this brilliant and rig- orously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy.

First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press rights in a time when the First Amendment offered little protection for those who dared to critique America’s “peculiar institution.” Culmi- nating in Lovejoy’s dramatic clashes with the pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois— who were destroying printing press after printing press—First to Fall will bring Lovejoy, his supporters and his enemies to life during the raucous 1830s at the edge of slave country. It was a bloody period of innovation, conflict, violent politics, and painful soul-searching over pivotal issues of morality and justice.

In the tradition of books like The Arc of Justice, First to Fall elevates a compelling, socially urgent narrative that has never received the attention it deserves. The book “Anyone who cares about press freedom should read First to Fall, which tells the will aim to do no less than rescue Lovejoy from the footnotes of history and restore unforgettable story of Elijah Lovejoy, a 19th century journalist who fought to end him as a martyr whose death was not only a catalyst for widespread abolitionist slavery and was killed for expressing his abolitionist views[ ...] a gripping historical action, but also inaugurated the movement toward the free press protections we account with a lesson for our time.”—Joel Simon, author of The New Censorship cherish so dearly today. “A penetrating look into a brutal era in American life, and one man who paid the An award-winning journalist, Ken Ellingwood has been posted in the San Diego, greatest penalty for standing up for freedom of expression [...] a compelling, richly Mexico City, Jerusalem, and Atlanta bureaus of the Los Angeles Times. He is the au- detailed biography of a pioneer publisher and a startling portrait of America rife thor of the critically acclaimed (and prescient) work of investigative journalism Hard with racial injustice [...] a story that any reader of history will find captivating and Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi. inspiring.” —J.D. Dickey, author of Rising in Flames

STARRED REVIEW, KIRKUS REVIEWS “An ode to courageous journalism – a timely reminder of the painstaking pur- “Ellingwood clearly demonstrates Lovejoy’s important contributions to the anti-slav- suit of truth and the ultimate sacrifice to secure a healthy democracy.”—Alfredo ery movement. A lucid and dramatic portrait of a tormented nation.” Corchado, author of Homeland AEVITAS 74 SPRINTING THROUGH NO MAN’S LAND Endurance, Tragedy and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

By Adin Dobkin NA July 2021 / Little A (Amazon) / US Editor: Laura Van der Veer Final PDF Available

The inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people.

On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country’s border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced near-impossible odds and the psychological scars of war. Most of the athletes had arrived straight from the front, where so many fellow countrymen had suffered or died. The cyclists’ perseverance and tolerance for pain would be tested in a grueling, month- long competition.

An inspiring true story of human endurance, Sprinting Through No Man’s Land explores how the cyclists united a country that had been torn apart by unprecedented desolation and tragedy. It shows how devastated countrymen and women can come together to celebrate the adventure of a lifetime and discover renewed fortitude, purpose, and national identity in the streets of their towns.

Adin Dobkin is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York “A moving and deeply researched book documenting the Tour de France’s rebirth Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Paris Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, after the Great War. Dobkin’s prose is lyric and at turns intricate and sweeping. He among others. Born in Santa Barbara, California, Adin received his MFA from brilliantly captures Europe’s collective longing to rebuild through a competition Columbia University. whose epic terms and improbable cast of characters speak to the hope and uncertainty that defined a generation devastated by violence. More than a chronicle of “Astonishing. With beautiful prose, compelling narrative, and meticulous research, sport, this is an incredible story of how the mind and body reckon with the scars of Adin Dobkin does far more than just record the history of a race—he conjures an war.” —Jen Percy, author of Demon Camp: The Strange and Terrible Saga of a entire world reeling in the aftermath of World War I.” —Phil Klay, National Book Soldier’s Return from War Award winner and author of Missionaries “Vivid and inspiring. A century ago, in a brutal race like no other, cyclists faced “Beautifully written, compellingly told. Adin Dobkin weaves together a masterful war-torn roads and their own demons, and Dobkin spins through their tale in a narrative of war, returning, and the resilience of the human spirit.”—Elliot Acker- sweet gear, showing the power of sport and the resilience of the heart.”—Jason man, coauthor of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War Fagone, author of the bestselling The Woman Who Smashed Codes AEVITAS 75 THE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, Prophet and a Contessa Moved a Nation

By Linda Hirshman NA February 2022 / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / US Editor: Deanne Urmy Edited MS Available Summer 2021

The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement

In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa,” raised money and managed Douglass’s speaking tour from her Boston townhouse.

Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves. Through incisive, original analysis, Hirsh- man convinces that the inevitable breakup was in fact a successful failure.Eventually, as the most sought-after Black activist in America, Douglass was able to dangle the prize of his endorsement over the Republican Party’s candidate for President, Abraham Lincoln. Two years later the abolition of slavery—if not the abolition of racism—became immutable law.

Linda Hirshman is a labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator. She has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic,and The New Yorker, and is the author of Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, and of the New York Times best-selling Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.

AEVITAS 76 PICASSO’S WAR THE VORTEX The Year the Art World Moved to America A True Story of Climate Disaster, War, and Liberation

By Hugh Eakin By Scott Carney and Jason Miklian NA NA Spring 2022 / Crown (PRH) / US Editor: Libby Burton Spring 2022 / Ecco (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Denise Oswald Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021

Rights Sold: Its satellite images shocked the hurricane trackers in Miami, nearly 9,000 miles Polish (Rebis) away. Its storm surge killed more than 500,000 people. It inspired the bestselling album of the decade. And it sparked a revolution that birthed a new nation. In January 1939, few people in America had heard of Pablo Picasso. Less than one year later, the unconventional Spaniard had become the national poster child of This monster storm has a name, the Great Bhola Cyclone. Bhola made landfall in modern art, the inspiration for a budding generation of American painters, and the the low-lying region of East Pakistan in 1970, during the height of the Cold War. fulcrum of the new art world. The US was aligned with Pakistan, while the Soviet Union backed India. India smuggled Soviet arms to Bengali rebels, including Mohammed Hai, who had Picasso’s War tells the story of two very different men—Paul Rosenberg, Picasso’s survived the storm and was radicalized by its aftermath. The US sent naval destroy- French-Jewish art dealer, and Alfred Barr, the young American director of the ers into the Bay of Bengal and the Soviets shadowed them with first strike nuclear Museum of Modern Art—and their struggle to create the groundbreaking 1939 submarines. Frustrated with the pushback, then-Secretary Henry Kissinger urged MoMA exhibition, “Picasso: Forty Years of His Art.” By zeroing in on this neglect- a “final showdown.” The world narrowly averted nuclear Armageddon because ed but defining episode, Hugh shows how global affairs played into the artist’s the capital city of East Pakistan, Dacca, fell to the rebels—an event that birthed success; how an unlikely partnership saved hundreds of priceless masterpieces from Bangladesh. The entire chain reaction began with a storm. In dozens of countries, Nazi hands; and how one daring exhibition precipitated events that irrevocably a storm like Bhola could send a nation over the edge. With climate change already shifted the avant-garde and art market from Europe to America. fueling increasingly powerful storms increasingly unpredictable places, The Vortex shows the reader that Bhola won’t remain just a lesson from the distant past—it’s a Picasso’s War builds momentum with heated rivalries, single-minded obsessions, harbinger of our future. complicated alliances, last-minute escapes, and personal reinventions. It’s a story of two visionaries who make a man into an icon; a case study in the creation and Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist as well as the author evolution of markets; and a behind the scenes look at a game-changing exhibition of the New York Times bestselling book What Doesn’t Kill Us that almost never happened. While the rise of the Third Reich does factor into the plot, this is not a book about Nazi looted art. This is a book about transformation: Jason Miklian is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. about how, in 1938, MoMA itself almost refused to buy Picasso’s “Demoiselle d’Avignon” for $28,000, and how, in 2015, Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)” sold for a record breaking $179.4 million.

Hugh Eakin is senior editor of and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

AEVITAS 77 BLOOD AND INK GUN BARONS An Heiress, A Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double The Rapid-Fire Arms that Transformed America and Murder that Hooked a Nation the Men Who Invented Them By Joe Pompeo NA By John Bainbridge NA Spring 2022 / William Morrow (HarperCollins) / US Editor: Mauro DiPreta Spring 2022 / St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) / US Editor: Charlie Spicer Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2021

For readers who love true crime, gorgeously written and researched narrative histo- Rights Sold: ry, tales of Old New York, and the bizarre underbelly of New Jersey. Blood and Ink UK/Commonwealth (Biteback) is Boardwalk Empire meets Agatha Christie meets Serial. Veteran reporter John Bainbridge vividly brings to life five charismatic men who Blood and Ink will bring to cinematic life two fascinating centennials: that of the changed the course of history through the invention and refinement of the repeating infamous Hall-Mills Murders of September 1922, in which a high-society reverend weapon – the precursor to today’s automatic weapon. and his choir girl mistress were brutally slaughtered in New Jersey, and that of the New York Daily News, which was America’s first tabloid when it debuted in June These men are household names today: the huckster and hard living Samuel of 1919, and went on to become an iconic media brand, as well as the most highly Colt; the seemingly dull but cunning former shirt maker Oliver Winchester; the circulated American daily newspaper ever launched. The Daily News soon inspired constant tinkerer Horace Smith; the resilient and innovative businessman Dan- a pair of ferocious tabloid rivals, and the bloody competition between them drove iel Wesson; and the skinny abolitionist Christopher Spencer. In this beautifully the Hall-Mills investigation to its apex, dramatically reigniting the case after the written account, we follow these men as they compete ferociously, each trying to police were unable to do so. corner the market for repeating weapons in the years running up to the outbreak of the Civil War and during the war itself. In this wide-ranging work, Bainbridge The Hall-Mills murders reverberate mightily even today: the shocking list of tells a gripping story of tenacity, noble conviction, innovation, debauchery, and suspects, the bizarre investigation, the electrifying trial and stunning verdict all pure heartless greed. He shows how the Gun Barons’ industrial practices led to the gave rise to a series of events and stories that influenced how we think about crime birth of the assembly line long before Henry Ford’s famous factories. Gun Barons as citizens and creators. Writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Mary Roberts Rine- will appeal to history buffs, hunters and sportsmen, business readers and fans of hart drew inspiration from the case, and the trial itself gave rise to a new genre of great ingenuity. fiction: the courtroom drama. John Bainbridge Jr. is an attorney, freelance writer, and former newspaper re- Joe Pompeo is the media correspondent for Vanity Fair. He is a graduate of the porter and coauthor of American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Columbia School of Journalism and Rutgers College. Pompeo lives in New Jersey Shoot-out That Stopped It. with his family.

AEVITAS 78 ON THE EDGE POISONED INK FDR, His Four Wounded Warriors, and a World Made The Press, Propaganda and the Imposter who Anew Battled for the Minds of America in WWI By Derek Leebaert NA By Mark Arsenault NA Fall 2022 / St. Martin’s Press / US Editor: Elisabeth Dyssegaard Fall 2022 / Pegasus / US Editor: Jessica Case Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Historian Derek Leebaert tells the story of the three men and one woman who com- Russia was not the first foreign power to influence American popular opinion from posed the top echelon of Franklin Roosevelt’s twelve-year presidency (1933-1945), the inside. In the lead-up to America’s entry into the First World War, Germany serving FDR through the most challenging time in modern American history. No spent the equivalent of one billion dollars to infiltrate American media, industry, other leaders were as visible for so long or had such enduring heft. and government in order to undermine the supply chain of the Allied forces.

When word came of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FDR gathered his cabinet If not for the ceaseless activity of John Revelstoke Rathom, editor of the scrappy in the family quarters at the White House. Around the desk were his four key, Providence Journal, America may have committed to its position of neutrality. But indispensable lieutenants: Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Secretary of Labor he emerged to galvanize a national will, creating the conditions necessary for Presi- Frances Perkins, Special Assistant to the President and Secretary of Commerce dent Wilson to request a Declaration of War from Congress—all the while expel- Harry Hopkins, and Vice President Henry Wallace. Only they had been at the ling German diplomats and exposing sensational plots along the way. And yet John heart of the Administration since its first days in 1933, and would remain to its Rathom was not his real name. And his many acts of journalistic heroism, which end, in April 1945, when Roosevelt himself was dead, and the huge tasks of that he recounted on nationwide speaking tours to rapt audiences, never happened. time were nearly over. Who then was this great, beloved, and ultimately tragic imposter?

But each of the four was vulnerable, damaged by hardship, insecurities of mind The legend of John Rathom encompasses the propaganda battle against Germany and money, loved and loathed in equal measure by the people closest to them. that set the US on a course for war. He rose within the editorial ranks, surviving The wounds of the four intensified the relationships between them, and with the romantic scandals and combating rivals, to eventually cross over from editor to de president: thwarted ambition, jealousies, sexism, shifting alliances, turbulent home facto spy and enthusiastic collaborator with Great Britain. He brought to light the lives, and fragile health. Like Roosevelt, they all had things to hide. And yet these Huerta plot (in which Germany offered an alliance to Mexico, promising them four rallied together to prevent a near collapse of America, and then of civilization arms to retake territory lost in the Mexican-American War); he helped to upend when war erupted. A formidable historian, Derek draws on new archival materials, labor strikes organized by the Labor’s National Peace Council, a council that was, some never before accessed, and cross-references the extensive papers of Hopkins, in an early example of low-tech “astroturfing,” organized by German agents to shut Ickes, Perkins, and Wallace—their diaries, letters, oral histories, and memoirs—to down American industry; and he was eventually brought low, having exhausted the render a multi-dimensional, gripping, and all together new portrait of the lives and goodwill of the Department of Justice, by an up-and-coming Franklin D. Roos- times of these immensely consequential warriors and of the complicated president evelt, when he embarrassed the US Navy with coverage of the first national gay sex they served so passionately. scandal. Poisoned Ink unearths the truth about Rathom’s origins and revisits a sur- real and too-little-known passage in American history that holds lessons for today. Former Smithsonian fellow and professor of foreign policy at Georgetown Univer- sity, Derek Leebaert now serves as a partner in the management consulting firm Mark Arsenault is a Boston Globe investigative reporter and a writer on the Globe’s MAP AG. He is an economist, tech entrepreneur, and adviser to the Pentagon. award-winning Spotlight team, the most recognizable and prestigious investigative print platform in the country.

AEVITAS 79 THE GOLDEN DOOR THE RED WIDOW Jacob Schiff, J.P. Morgan, Albert Ballin, and the Race to Save Europe’s Jews By Sarah Horowitz By Steven Ujifusa NA WE Fall 2022 / HarperCollins / US Editor: Gail Winston Fall 2022 / Sourcebooks / US Editor: Anna Michels Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Taking place between 1890 and 1921, The Golden Door tells the story of the mass The Red Widow introduces readers to Marguerite Steinheil, one of the most re- exodus of Jews out of Eastern Europe and the men who led one of the largest rescue markable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. missions in American history. A propulsive human drama with global ramifica- tions, the plot is tightly organized around the interlocking stories of figures includ- A society hostess and the wife of an award-winning painter, Marguerite “Meg” ing Jacob Schiff, J.P. Morgan, Albert Ballin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Sofia Weinstein Steinheil received some of the most famous and powerful figures of Parisian so- and Anne Morgan. ciety at her salon, entertaining writers, artists, and politicians alike to stimulate a melting pot of creativity. She also won no small amount of renown and notoriety With a cast straight out of Ragtime, The Golden Door will offer an original, multi- by sleeping with many of them, including the French President Félix Faure—who dimensional look at the American experience while connecting the dots between entered French lore by dying of a stroke at the climax (literally) of one of their banking, industry, politics, immigration, nativism, globalism, and war. An epic his- encounters, clutching Meg’s hair so tightly that aides had to come and cut her free tory written on an intimate scale, it will appeal to general nonfiction readers who of his death grip. love Citizens of London by Lynn Olson, Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen E. Ambrose, and Triangle by David von Drehle. The audience will also include fans But Meg had ambitions far beyond becoming one of the most sought-after bodies of business narratives such as Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed, The House of in Paris; at her core, she was a woman determined to conquer French high society. Morgan by Ron Chernow, and Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw; as well as readers She actually achieved her goal, becoming a sort of sexual celebrity who had the of popular Jewish history such as Our Crowd by Stephen Birmingham. acumen and intelligence to parlay her “close relations” with France’s most prominent men into a level of power that few women at the time knew. Over time, Meg Steven Ujifusa is the author of Barons of the Sea, an LA Times bestseller, and A influenced the appointments to a variety of government positions, showed no Man and His Ship, chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction qualms about blackmailing her opponents, and may have even attempted to poison books of 2012. He received his B.A. in History from Harvard College and his those that got in her way. She was a real-life femme fatale who left a trail of death Master’s in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. and destruction in her wake, breaking every rule in the bourgeois book and getting away with it.

Sarah Horowitz is an associate professor of history and core faculty in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington and Lee University.

AEVITAS 80 OTHER FRONTS A BRIGHT AND BLINDING SUN Dwight Eisenhower, Kay Summersby, and the Women of An Incredible True World War II Story of Survival and Re- the General’s Inner Circle During World War II demption By Elise Jordan NA By Marcus Brotherton NA Fall 2022 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Andrew Miller Fall 2022 / Little, Brown (Hachette) / US Editor: Bruce Nichols Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2022

Telling untold stories from history, and uncovering forgotten ones, has become the The captivating and inspirational true story of World War 2 hero Joe Johnson Jr. literary project of our time. Told in rich novelistic detail and extensively researched by New York Times bestselling author Marcus Brotherton, Johnson’s astounding experience is one of the most Writers and scholars have dedicated themselves to the recovery of narratives that gripping and surprising accounts of World War 2 ever recorded. the historical record has ignored, and this act of unearthing has become a powerful means of questioning our cultural memory and the previously accepted historical Joe Johnson Jr. dreams of escaping his family’s dire circumstances as he watches record. Rarer, and perhaps even more illuminating, are the stories that were not freight trains thunder through his hometown of Memphis. At the tender age of 14, passively forgotten but rather actively suppressed. Such is the case of Kay Sum- he’ll run away from home, lie about his age, and join the Army. The hostilities of mersby, known as the favored aide and driver to Supreme Allied Commander WW2 have not yet begun, but as Joe walks down the gangplank into the suffocat- General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II, who has been erased from ing Manila heat to start his basic training, he wonders if he’s made a huge mistake. American history both literally and figuratively. What Joe was about to experience is a journey of unspeakable pain, requiring endurance and survival skills of a soldier far beyond his years. But he’ll also expe- Kay, a glamorous former model eighteen years Eisenhower’s junior, was one of the rience unfathomable love. Soon after arriving in the Philippines, Joe meets Perpet- two-star general’s most trusted advisors and closest confidants during the war. She ua—a young girl about his same age. She’s living a life of forced prostitution in the was arguably the person who knew the famously closed-off Eisenhower best—and dark alleys of Manila. Their relationship begins as transactional, but the teens fall was also, possibly, his lover. But whether or not Ike and Kay had a physical affair, in love. When Joe discovers Perpetua is pregnant and about to be sent to an even just the appearance of impropriety made her existence problematic to the future seedier brothel, he risks both of their lives by helping her to escape—in the dead of president’s image and was enough to have her relegated to the historical margins. night—to a home for unwed mothers. Eisenhower’s biographers have waffled on the issue and failed to give Kay her due. But war soon finds its way to young Joe, and he finds himself detained by the With Other Fronts, Elise hopes to bring Kay’s story, and those of the other pioneer- Japanese. For the next three and half years, Joe—in a narrative carefully detailed ing women in Ike’s orbit during the same period, to a wide range of readers inter- by Brotherton—battles to survive some of the most brutal conditions known to ested in World War II, women’s history, and action-packed narrative non-fiction. modern man. Unlike so many soldiers subjected to the conditions of captivity, Joe Johnson Jr. survives. At the end of the war and upon his release, Joe lays in a hos- Elise Jordan is a former State Department employee and speechwriter turned print pital bed recovering from his grave wounds. Suddenly he cannot believe his eyes. journalist and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Standing at the end of his bed is a new nurse. She’s a young Filipino girl named Perpetua. And unbelievably, there are more surprises to come.

Marcus Brotherton is a New York Times bestselling author and collabrative writer known for his books with high-profile public figures, inspirational leaders, and military personnel.

AEVITAS 81 THE SISTERHOOD GHOST CATS The Untold Story of the Female Spies Who Tracked The Last Mountain Lions of Los Angeles Osama Bin Laden and Brought Al-Qaeda to Justice By Deanne Stillman By Liza Mundy NA WE Spring 2023 / Crown (PRH) / US Editor: Paul Whitlach Spring 2023 / Univeristy of California Press / US Editor: Reed Malcolm Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022

Rights Sold: A natural history for readers of Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf and Helen Macdon- UK/Commonwealth (The History Press) ald’s H is for Hawk.

The Sisterhoodwill bring to life the intrepid analysts repeatedly and fruitlessly “If you’ve been outdoors in a place where cougars live, then you’ve been close to a warned government officials of an impending major assault on U.S. soil. Then, cougar. They saw you, but you didn’t see them.” after 9/11 shook the country, these brave and dedicated women had no choice but to push forward. The mountain lions of California are the last of a decimated population, descen- dants from the Ice Age, slipping through the shadows of American suburbia, re- In The Sisterhood, Mundy will animate the lives of these unsung heroes, delivering minding us that the wild isn’t so far away. Deanne Stillman, acclaimed and bestsell- a thrilling narrative that heralds the essential contributions women have made to ing author of literary nonfiction such asMustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the national security, intelligence, and espionage work, as well as the trials and sacri- American West, contemplates the deep-time legacy and unfolding fate of cougars in fices they’ve faced to earn trust and respect in a traditionally male-dominated field. the American West. Written in the vein of Keith O’Brien’s Fly Girls and Kate Moore’s Radium Girls, showcasing the thrilling storytelling and intellectual rigor found in works such as Spellbound by celebrity cats like P-22, the subject of the just-released documen- Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Lawrence Wright’s The Loom- tary, “The Cat that Changed America,” and others, such as the Culvert Cat who ing Tower. died trying to flee the Woolsey Fire, Stillman pursues the history and state of the mountain lion in the region that came be known as Los Angeles, a dynamic border The Sisterhoodpromises to be a revelatory and empowering narrative of inspiration- where urbanity meets a slice of raw, untamed nature. al collaboration, individual sacrifice, and tireless determination that sheds necessary new light on the traumatic events and reverberations of 9/11 that still haunt our Ghost Cats will travel from the cougar’s evolutionary origins, to the Pueblo’s spir- nation today. itual reverence for the animal, to Teddy Roosevelt’s far-sighted conservation of its habitat that belied his complicated relationship to creatures he considered “abject Liza Mundy is the author of four books, most recently the New York Times best- cowards,” “beast[s] of stealth and rapine,” and “ferocious and bloodthirsty.” In the selling Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World present, Stillman accompanies the scientists fighting to understand and protect War II. She is a former staff writer forThe Washington Post. these vulnerable animals; and she weighs this schizophrenic history, in which humans fail to reconcile a dangerous combination of awe, indifference, and fear.

In a time when we have retreated to our homes, Stillman invites us to contemplate something completely primal, sheer wildness in flesh and sinew and claw, a mani- festation of power, strength, self-knowledge, and mystery.

AEVITAS 82 PROJECT CONFRONTATION MOSKVA The Ten Weeks that Jump-Started History Seven Hills, Fifteen Places, and One Thousand Years of the Russian Soul By Paul Kix NA By Simon Morrison WE Spring 2023 / Celadon (Macmillan) / US Editor: Jamie Raab Fall 2023 / Knopf (PRH) / US Editor: Andrew Miller Proposal Available — Edited MS Fall 2022 Proposal Available — Edited MS Spring 2023

It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager being bitten Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese (ThinKingdom) by a police K-9 German Shepherd in Birmingham, Alabama in May of 1963. It’s Dutch (Meulenhoff) UK/Comm (Bodley Head) the most important video of the 21st century: A white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a Black man in May of 2020 for more than 8 minutes, Moskva explains Moscow, which explains Russia as a global cultural, economic, killing him. and political power. And, Simon argues, it is the city that will decide the future, for better or for worse. Each of them shocked and galvanized a nation. Each forced white America to Simon Morrison’s evocative narrative of Russian history—there are precious few in confront and acknowledge its brutalization of Black America. The former revital- English, and none focusing on Moscow—becomes the backdrop for an epic explo- ized the Civil Rights Movement and led JFK to introduce legislation that would ration of the city as protagonist in a global drama. In MOSKVA: Seven Hills, Fif- become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The latter sparked unprecedented protest teen Places, and One Thousand Years of the Russian Soul, he recounts the history worldwide and brought the Black Lives Matter movement into the mainstream of of Russia’s capital as a place, an idea, and worldview by exploring sites throughout American life. There’s a connection between those two images and that connection the city Simon has come to know intimately over many decades as a permanent is the book Paul Kix is writing. It’s the story behind that photo from 1963, a photo visiting resident. It comprises fifteen chapters, spanning nearly as many centuries, that had obsessed him because he knew that one day he’d need to talk about it with that weave together the past, present, and personal to reveal the world-historical his two sons and with his daughter, all of whom are Black. significance of a country and sensibility so strange to so many in the West.In his stories of fifteen places, Simon explores Moscow’s 1000-year transformation from The campaign that resulted in that photo was the work of four extraordinary a “big village” to former Soviet capital to pyramid scheme gangland to glittering men— Martin Luther King, Jr, Walker Wyatt, Fred Shuttlesworth and James Bev- city-state with great geopolitical reach. He delves into the history of the Russian el—and it was expressly designed to provoke Birmingham’s legendarily-brutal Of- language, the rise and fall of the blood-stained Rurik dynasty, the icons in St. ficer of Public Safety Bull Connor into revealing the horror of white oppression to Basil’s Cathedral, Tsarist beauty and cruelty, the invasions by Napoleon and Hitler, white America. Paul’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as the “House of Culture” of the KGB and the Red Army, the “everyday Stalinism” it was known—its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture felt by the inhabitants of one apartment building, and onto the seemingly limitless now. It’s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it’s also the key to understanding internet imperium of cyberspace, where, instead of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the BLM era of American history state exports populist politics, corruption, fake news, and other forms of social begins to bear fruit, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time media-sown chaos. because, as Paul writes in the proposal, “the past is the present is the future is the eternal.” Simon Morrison is a musicologist and cultural historian specializing in Russia, a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Music at Princeton University. Paul Kix is the author of The Saboteur and is an editor and writer in the features Author of, most recently, Bolshoi Confidential and a biography of Lina Prokofiev, unit of ESPN. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, GQ and other national pub- Simon has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Lon- lications. don Review of Books, the TLS, and Time. AEVITAS 83 ACM’S FOREIGN CO-AGENTS

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