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SPRING 2020

REAL LIFE: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Fiction | Riverhead | February 18, 2020| World Rights Agent: DeFiore and Company Manuscript available

*REAL LIFE has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize. For information on his upcoming title, FILTHY ANIMALS, publishing June 22, 2021, turn to page 24 of this guide*

A searing novel in ten parts, REAL LIFE excavates the social intricacies of a summer weekend on one level, and a lifetime of buried pain, on another. Taylor touches both seductively and scathingly on love’s proximal relationship to violence (and the inherently complex sexual politics of that proximity), the unknowability of another’s grief, the indefatigable human desire for connection, and the microaggressions attendant to racism, homophobia, and additional kinds of othering.

Brandon Taylor is the associate editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Writer's workshop. His stories and essays have appeared at Literary Hub, Catapult, Them.com, Gulf Coast, Little Fiction, Amazon's Day One, Out Magazine online, Necessary Fiction, Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

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PRAISE “There is writing so exceptional, so intricately crafted that it demands reverence. The intimate prose of Brandon Taylor’s exquisite debut novel, Real Life, offers exactly that kind of writing. He writes so powerfully about so many things—the perils of graduate education, blackness in a predominantly white setting, loneliness, desire, trauma, need. Wallace, the man at the center of this novel, is written with nuance and tenderness and complexity. . . . Truly, this is stunning work from a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.” —Roxane Gay

“This book blew my head and heart off. For a debut novelist to disentangle and rebraid intimacy, terror, and joy this finely seems like a myth. But that, and so much more, is what Brandon Taylor has done in Real Life. The future of the novel is here and Brandon Taylor is that future’s name.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“Real Life is a gorgeous work of art, and the introduction of a singular new voice. Through Wallace, the book explores the tension of a person trying to become himself while surrounded by people who can see him only as their own projection. Even as Brandon Taylor dives beneath the level of polite surface interaction and into the ache of what people conceal from one another, or reveal only as weaponry, his sharply rendered observations make it a true pleasure to spend time in this book’s world.” —Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

“Real Life is one of the finest fiction debuts I’ve read in the last decade—elegant and brutal, handled by an author whose attention to the heart is unlike any other’s. A magnificent novel.” —Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise

“A few summer days, a group of friends, a difficult intimacy—with the simplest materials, Real Life reveals the knives we pocket in good intentions, our constant, communal sabotage of love. Brandon Taylor’s genius lies in the elaboration of ever more revelatory gradations of feeling; in his extraordinary debut he invents new tools for navigating the human dark in which we know one another. He is a brilliant writer, and this is a beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

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“Amid the flurry of new novels drifting down like so many balloons, Real Life is the one weighted with confetti.” –- Paris Review

“Brandon Taylor. . . is finally gifting the world with a debut novel that is so quietly stirring that you won’t know what hit you by the end. . . . the novel skillfully weaves a story of friendship and superficiality. . . It’s also the best portrayal of an introvert’s inner and outer life in recent memory. With smooth prose and a deeply nuanced protagonist, Real Life is one of those timeless stories that also perfectly captures a generational moment.” –- LitHub

“A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain.” –- The Rumpus

“Taylor translates . . . with a rare fluidity and writes breathlessly physical scenes, all of which adds to the charged experience of reading his steadily exciting and affecting debut; it's an experience in itself.” –- Booklist, starred review

“Taylor deserves admiration for making it so clear how racism and homophobia feel . . . its unflinching forays into our culture wars are cleareyed.” –- Kirkus, starred review

“[An] intense, introspective debut . . . . Taylor’s perceptive, challenging exploration . . . will resonate with readers looking for complex characters and rich prose.” –- Publishers Weekly

“a brutal and tender debut . . . bound to leave an indelible mark. And as a stylist Taylor has, sentence by sentence, crafted an experience of bone-deep pleasure for the reader . . . The penultimate chapter alone is a knockout, and its end would have been a magnificent closing for the book had the actual final sentence, a few pages later, not surpassed it.” – Salon

“Taylor’s prose brims with interiority, and is dark and tender, like a bruise.” - The New Yorker

“rich and lush . . .elegantly rendered. . . .Taylor . . .is as keen an observer . . .and he writes with extraordinary precision.” --- VOX

“A book wonderfully observant on the toxicity of whiteness, and a reminder of what even the smallest racial slights can do to the body and mind. . . . Taylor’s sentences are light and tense—each one a balloon helium-puffed to its limit, on the verge of bursting.” --- Wired

“stunning debut,” admiring how it “probes — painstakingly, with the same microscopic precision its protagonist uses in the lab. . . . much of the plot involves excavating the profound from the mundane. As in the modernist novels of Woolf and Tolstoy . . . the true action of Taylor’s novel exists beneath the surface, buried in subterranean spaces. . . . Taylor proves himself to be a keen observer of the psychology of not just trauma, but its repercussions: how private suffering can ricochet from one person to injure those caught in his path.” Harris goes on to praise the novel’s “tight, beatific prose. . . Taylor’s deeply rooted understandings of the rarefied worlds of both provincial grad school life and biochemistry in particular . . . should inspire envy in every writer striving for specificity. There is a delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.” --- Jeremy O. Harris, New York Times Book Review

“Taylor unearths . . . layered struggles with tenderness and complexity, from the first gorgeous sentence of his book to its very last.” He describes the novel as “equal parts captivating, erotic, smart and vivid. . . devastatingly effective.” He continues with these gripping final lines: “Taylor is also tackling loneliness, desire and — more than anything — finding purpose, meaning and happiness in one’s own life. What makes it most special, though, is that Real Life is told from the perspective of Wallace, who, like so many other gay black men I know, understands how such a quest is further complicated by racism, poverty and homophobia. Such is often the case with publishing itself, an industry that is only now releasing works from queer black men. How fortunate we are for Real Life, another stunning contribution from a community long deserving of the chance to tell its stories.”

3 --- Michael Aceneaux, TIME – “Brandon Taylor announces his arrival to readers with Real Life, a devastating wallop of a debut novel… shares more than a few similarities with Hanya Yanagihara’s juggernaut, A Little Life . . . . But while A Little Life could be unnecessarily grim and upsetting, the discomfort of Real Life has a point: to unsettle, to provoke and, hopefully, to cause white readers to reassess their own privilege and biases. . . . Taylor’s language is breathtaking in its precision and poetry, and he has a real talent for writing beautifully about ugly, brutal things. The result is a book that can only be described as the perfect union of the two—brutiful—and should be considered essential reading for all.” --- BookPage

“Real Life is one of those books that perfectly captures a generational moment while also feeling timeless.” --- THEM

For more of Brandon’s writing and interviews, visit his website: http://brandonlgtaylor.com/interviews

DEACON KING KONG: A Novel By James McBride Fiction | Riverhead | March 3, 2020| Translation only Agent: Sterling Lord Literistic Inc. Manuscript available

*DEACON KING KONG is an Oprah’s Book Club pick.*

*The Showtime limited series of THE GOOD LORD BIRD, the author’s previous title, will premiere in the US on October 4th. In the next couple of weeks McBride will participate in Broadcast and Print Press Junket events, an event with The Atlantic Festival, National Association of Black Journalist, National Council of Teachers of English, the New Yorker Festival and an HBCU Super Screening event. Announced today, McBride and Showtime will be awarded The Center for Fiction’s On Screen award in December. We’re currently waiting on the list of international release dates. *

In DEACON KING KONG, the National Book Award winning and bestselling author of THE GOOD LORD BIRD explores the lives of the people touched by a shooting at a Brooklyn housing project: the victim and his posse, the shooter, the witnesses, the cops, even the shooter's dead wife.

James McBride is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award-winning novel THE GOOD LORD BIRD, the bestselling American classic THE COLOR OF WATER, the novels SONG YET UNSUNG and MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, the story collection FIVE-CARAT SOUL, and KILL ‘EM AND LEAVE, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University.

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"McBride returns with an improbably hilarious tapestry of late '60s Brooklyn, and an eclectic group of individuals that bore witness to a fatal shooting." --Entertainment Weekly

"With a Dickensian wealth of quirky characters, a sardonic but humane sense of humor reminiscent of Mark Twain, and cartoonish action scenes straight out of Pynchon, McBride creates a lived-in world where everybody knows everybody’s business. This generous, achingly funny novel will delight and move readers.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"McBride has a flair for fashioning comedy whose buoyant outrageousness barely conceals both a steely command of big and small narrative elements and a river-deep supply of humane intelligence. An exuberant comic opera set to the music of life." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“The sheer volume of invention in Deacon King Kong—on the level of both character (the first chapter alone introduces twenty individuals by name) and language—commands awe. Reading it is like watching a movie in which one’s occasional impulse to ask questions is pleasantly swamped by the need to keep up with the pace of events ... And the sentences! The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy. After some chapters, you feel empathetically exhausted, in the way you might feel drained by watching an overtime football game. The experience of traversing a simple flashback paragraph is like trying to leap from stone to stone across a river, except occasionally one of them turns out to be not a stone after all but a lily pad, or a shadow, and into the river you go ... A consciously suppressed anger emerges only rarely, but often enough to make you read the comedy differently. It’s as if any sentence in the book would, if allowed to flow all the way to its digressive end, empty into the pool of injustices that put these characters in the Cause Houses to begin with ... In Deacon King Kong, narrative omniscience leaves room for despair, as it must, but its over-all energy never flags. Sometimes the most affirmative thing you can do, as a storyteller, is to service that story’s momentum, in the hope that there’s some just reward for everyone in the end.” –The New Yorker

“Readers of The Good Lord Bird will recognize shades of McBride’s hilarious dialogue and an attention to detail that reveal a complex local history. Capturing humanity through satire and witticisms, McBride draws everyday heroes ... McBride’s novel is a rich and vivid multicultural history. But he also depicts the vulnerability of men who show most of the world only their gruff exteriors, rendered with rare and memorable tenderness. –TIME Magazine

“”Deacon King Kong” is deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane; McBride’s ability to inhabit his characters’ foibled, all- too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one. He has written beautifully before, in his beloved memoir, “The Color of Water,” and, with terrifying irreverence, in his National Book Award-winning novel, “The Good Lord Bird.” But “Deacon King Kong” reads like he’s tapped a whole fresh seam of inspiration and verve. It’s clear that he’s having a blast, and his spirit of funning irreverence supercharges the entire narrative like home-brewed black lightning. McBride’s got jokes like Ali Wong’s got jokes. Like your colmado’s got jokes. I made the mistake of reading “Deacon King Kong” on the Tokyo subway and my nonstop chortling made me no friends. But just because McBride is playing doesn’t mean he’s fooling around. For all the laughs, he never loses sight of the terrible longitudinal harm that African diasporic and Latine peoples have suffered in the New World. He doesn’t just pivot from the humor to the agony; he seems to deploy both modes at once, and it speaks to his talents that he does so with dexterous aplomb. McBride will be cracking wise and without missing a beat he’ll hurl a thunderbolt whose clarifying rage could light up half a borough.” –Junot Diaz in The New York Times Book Review (Cover review)

5 BREATH: The Lost Art and Science of Our Most Misunderstood Function By James Nestor Nonfiction | Riverhead | May 26, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Danielle Svetcov/Levine Greenberg Rostan Manuscript available

A journalistic exploration of the emerging and often wildly curious field of breathing, introducing pulmonology researchers on the edge of startling new discoveries and "breath hackers" who are tapping the human body's hidden potential in endurance, weight control, immune response, and longevity.

James Nestor has written for Outside Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, and many other publications. His book DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves was a Finalist for the 2014 PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014. Nestor has appeared on more than 40 national radio and television shows, including ABC's Nightline, CBS Morning News, and dozens of NPR programs.

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Advance praise: “A transformative book that changes how you think about your body and mind.” —Joshua Foer, New York Times–bestselling author of MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN: The Art and Science of Memory

“BREATH is an utterly fascinating journey into the ways we are wired. No matter who you are, you’ll want to read this.” —Po Bronson, New York Times–bestselling author of WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? and coauthor of NURTURESHOCK

“An eye-opening, epic journey of human devolution that explains why so many of us are sick and tired. A must-read book that exposes what our health care system doesn’t see.” —Dr. Steven Y. Park, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, author of SLEEP, INTERRUPTED

“I don’t say this often, but when I do I mean it: This book changed my life. BREATH is part scientific quest, part historical insight, part Hero’s Journey, full of groundbreaking ideas, and a rollicking good read. I had no idea that the simple and intuitive act of inhaling and exhaling has taken such an evolutionary hit. As a result, I figured out why I sleep so badly and why my breathing feels so often out of sync. With a few simple tweaks, I fixed my breathing and fixed myself. A transformational book!” —Caroline Paul, bestselling author of THE GUTSY GIRL

“If you breathe, you need this book. When we undervalue anything, including something so basic as breathing, bad things always happen— and Nestor makes it clear how awful it’s gotten. But he also provides a clear airway back to better, deeper, stronger respirations.” —Wallace J. Nichols, PhD, New York Times–bestselling author of BLUE MIND

“BREATH shows us just how extraordinary the act of breathing is and why so much depends on how we do it. An enthralling, surprising, and often funny adventure into our most overlooked and undervalued function.” —Bonnie Tsui, author of WHY WE SWIM and AMERICAN CHINATOWN

NPR / Fresh Air – interview linked here, and James’ website linked here: https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/

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SUMMER 2020

WHAT CAN A BODY DO: How We Meet the Built World By Sarah Hendren Design & Tech | Riverhead | August 18, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Lydia Wills LLC Manuscript available

In a series of fascinating stories and provocative explorations that draw on her own practice and cutting- edge disability theory, Sarah Hendren translates this secret language of design and invites us to reboot it. What might a technology based on adaptation rather than "normalcy" look like? Can architecture foster interdependence as well as independence? How might a city be engineered to help us all better navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, Hendren helps us to imagine a world that better meets the extraordinary range of our needs and desires.

Sarah Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and writer who teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert, MOMA, and the Cooper Hewitt, and her writing and design work have been featured in The New York Times, FastCo Design, and on NPR, among other places.

PRAISE “Hendren makes us aware of the many ways we inhabit—and could inhabit—ourselves and the material world, including the difficult question of what ‘the good life’ really is. Nothing will look the same after reading this.” —Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Thoughtful and compelling. Hendren makes a very strong case for taking into account humanity in all its irregularities when remaking the world.” —Henry Petroski, author of To Engineer Is Human

“Hendren’s powerful, imaginative stories open up new mental and physical worlds for all of us, allowing us to renew our relationship to time, technology, and one another.” —Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business and The Chessboard and the Web

“A poetic, pragmatic, and powerful invitation to unmake and remake the world for every body. This book is transformative!” —Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology

“In her beautiful and brilliant What Can a Body Do, Sara Hendren helps us begin to imagine and enact a better world for human flourishing. If you are human, you need to read this book.”—Cathy N. Davidson, author of The New Education

“An urgent work, told with compassion and authority. There is room for us all in this essential book.” – Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking

“This book illuminates both the daunting specificity and the inspiring universality of what most fundamentally shapes and challenges the work of design: our own bodies. Hendren forever reimagines the way we engage the built environment.” — Michael Bierut, partner, Pentagram

“Spare, elegant, and charismatic, this book is a call to carry out our ethical commitment to justice and access; it's packed with stories and ideas that show us the way.” – Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, author of Extraordinary Bodies “What Can A Body Do? opened my eyes to how thinking about disability can provide us all creative opportunities to make a better world for everyone.”— Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like An Artist

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“After reading a few pages, it’s hard not to look up and see your surroundings in a different light.” – National Endowment for the Humanities

“has a kind of deep beauty…Some molecular-level harmony obtains when writing seems so committed to being both interesting and humane. … Hendren’s humanism shines." – The New Yorker

FALL 2020

FAMILY IN SIX TONES: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter By Lan Cao and Harland Margaret Van Cao Memoir | Viking | September 1, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Frances Goldin Literary Agency Manuscript available

In this lyrical memoir, Cao explores her experiences as refugee and mother, with the help of her fierce, independently-minded daughter, Harlan Margaret Van Cao. In short chapters that both reflect and refract her mother's narrative, Van Cao describes the rites of passage of childhood and adolescence as they are filtered through the after effects of her family's history of war and migration. Cao responds in turn, revealing her struggles to understand her American daughter. In their alternating storytelling, their complicated mother- daughter relationship begins to crystallize. Through explosive fights and painful setbacks, mother and daughter search for a way to accept the past and face the future together.

Lan Cao is the author of MONKEY BRIDGE and THE LOTUS AND THE STORM, and the scholarly work CULTURE IN LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: Nurturing Positive Change. She is a professor at the Chapman University School of Law, and an internationally recognized expert. She has taught at Brooklyn Law School, Duke Law School, Michigan Law School and William & Mary Law School.

Harlan Margaret Van Cao is finishing her senior year in high school.

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PRAISE

“Family in Six Tones is a brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience. Mother and daughter speak to each other across generations and cultures, revealing and bridging their differences with patience and hard-won trust. Their astonishingly heartfelt dialogue offers a model for sharing the deeper truths that so often get ignored or forgotten.”—Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being

"Startling and necessary, Family in Six Tones takes us deep into the singular bond of a mother and daughter, separated by their countries of birth and of coming of age, yet fiercely connected by a love wrought out of loss and the will to create anew. This memoir will forever trouble the water of the American Dream, complicating it and clarifying it of the myths and masks of survival, assimilation, and success. It reminds us that Vietnamese refugees, like so many who call this country home, are not amnesiacs. We carry within us memories of faraway places and discarded lives. Thus our dreams here are haunted, unsettled, and yet we still dream."—Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt

“Written by a Vietnam-born mother and her fiercely spirited American-born daughter, the book weaves an engrossing tale of love and pain, war, upheaval, and trauma. Even at her young age, Harlan Margaret Van Cao is a fresh new voice, with an arresting, and unnerving way with language. This is a work of breathtaking and at times gut-twisting power.”—Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes

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“Family in Six Tones is a brilliant memoir in ways that are redolent with the joys of true literature, innovative in form, keen in observation and insight, shaped by two narrative voices that are distinct but are both captivating in tone and nuance and manifest humanity. And like all great literature, the book speaks to the central theme of life: Who am I? This mother and daughter seek the answer to that question with rich complexity and unflinching honesty and in doing so illuminate the yearning for a self that drives us all.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

A PRACTICAL WAY TO GET RICH… AND DIE TRYING: A Cautionary Tale By John Roa Memoir | Viking | September 8, 2020 | World Agent: Renaissance Literary & Talent Agency Manuscript available

At the age of twenty-six John Roa founded ÄKTA, a Chicago-based tech-consulting and design firm which became one of the fastest-growing companies in America. He sold it in 2015 for a massive fortune to Salesforce. Roa's twenty-year-long journey from dead-broke to unimaginably wealthy is an often absurd and hilarious story of talent, luck, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life personalities, sex parties, gambling, excessive drug and alcohol consumption, and inevitable breakdown. This cautionary tale illustrates the physical and mental toll that long hours and the relentless pressure to grow and be profitable can take. Roa’s compelling memoir campaigns for honesty and vulnerability in an industry that currently allows neither.

John Roa is a lifelong entrepreneur, technologist, philanthropist, and business investor. He founded ÄKTA, which was one of the fastest growing media companies in America before it was acquired in 2015, and is the founder of Roa Ventures and the non-profit organization Digital Hope.

PRAISE:

"A Practical Way to Get Rich and Die Trying is a scathingly honest memoir of entrepreneurship’s dark reality—the crushing stress, the minuscule odds of success, the trauma of failure that is always peering over most founders’ shoulders. As editor of Inc. magazine, I followed John Roa’s successful rise at ÄKTA. To learn from this book what was really going on in his heart and his company at that time is powerful and sobering. I would advise every entrepreneuror—or anyone who dreams of becoming one—to read this book. There’s no better way to understand how immensely challenging the entrepreneurial path really is, and what heroes the people who undertake that journey truly are." —Eric Schurenberg - CEO, Fast Company and Inc.

"I thought I would be reading a story about a friend and successful entrepreneur. What I got instead was One of the most honest and well- articulated narratives that I’ve ever read on the rollercoaster that comes along with success in our modern culture. John's vulnerability and security shine through as he gives a genuine insight into his journey of success that also reflects upon the necessary resilience to persevere through tough times as a leader, and make the journey all the more rewarding. I would encourage every leader, entrepreneur and coach to read this immediately." —Sean McVay, Head Coach of the L.A. Rams

“John is one of the few shining a light on the dark side of entrepreneurship. The same drive that makes a lot of us successful is the same force that drives a lot of us to stand face-to-face with our demons. This is a must-read book.” —Jordan Harbinger, Host of the Jordan Harbinger Show

"For young entrepreneurs seeking to win the glittering—but personally destructive—startup game, it is essential reading. . . . A candid and disturbing memoir of the ups and downs of entrepreneurship." —Kirkus Reviews

9 “From a story-telling perspective, this is about as good as it gets. John does a brilliant job of combining personal vulnerability and business intelligence with raucous humor, keeping the reader deeply engaged. This is a gripping and compelling page turner.” —Anthony Hemingway, Golden Globe-winning Director

“John exposes the all too often neglected human side of success. The Spiritual and mental taxation of success is rarely talked about. Here we get an inside look at the opposing forces that govern this realm and the fine line that separates them. I know firsthand how toxic the world of the entrepreneur can be, and when things get rolling, it can be every bit as dark as the music business, possibly more. To even navigate it successfully is a hero’s journey. To come out the other side reborn, with a foundation of compassion and a goal of helping others is simply super-human. John does both, and in the process experiences the edges of light and darkness in a way that few have.” —Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer, Smashing Pumpkins

DINNER: A Novel By Shalom Auslander Fiction | Riverhead | September 22, 2020 | World Rights Agent: c/o Riverhead Manuscript available

Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: "Eat me." This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal- Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group. But for Seventh, it raises some serious questions, both practical and emotional. Irreverent and written with Auslander's incomparable humor, MOTHER FOR DINNER is an exploration of legacy, assimilation, the things we owe our families, and the things we owe ourselves.

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Tablet, The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life. Auslander is the author of the short story collection BEWARE OF GOD, the memoir FORESKIN'S LAMENT, and the novel HOPE: A Tragedy. He is the creator of Showtime's "Happyish."

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THE MODERN DETECTIVE: How Corporate Intellegence Is Reshaping the World By Tyler Maroney True Crime| Riverhead | September 29, 2020 | World Rights Agent: c/o Riverhead Manuscript available

As a private investigator, Tyler Maroney has traveled the globe, overseeing sensitive investigations and untying complicated cases for a wide array of clients. In his new book, he shows that it's private eyes who today are being called upon to catch corrupt politicians, track down international embezzlers, and mine reams of data to reveal which CEOs are lying. The tools Maroney and other private investigators use are a mix of the traditional and the cutting edge, from old phone records to computer forensics to solid (and often inspired) street-level investigative work. Maroney has found the most useful assets private investigators have are their resourcefulness and their creativity.

Tyler Maroney has worked as a private investigator at Kroll, the Mintz Group, and now as co-founder of the private investigations firm Quest Research and Investigations. Before becoming an investigator Maroney was a Fulbright scholar and worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, and Frontline.

“It is part memoir, part how-to guide, a celebration of the analytical and interpersonal intelligence that makes a great investigator….It takes nothing away from Maroney’s fascinating account to say that the gap between the profession’s noblest aspirations and its customary activities is a subject worth investigating.” – Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker

ONE LIFE By Megan Rapinoe Nonfiction | Penguin Press | November 10, 2020 | World Rights Agent: Wasserman Media Group Manuscript available

In a thoughtful and unapologetic discussion of women, social justice, role models, LGBTQ issues, nationalism, and even a little soccer, US Women’s National Soccer Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe will use her extraordinary platform (cemented by the World Cup 2019 win) to advocate for the issues closest to her heart.

Megan Rapinoe is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion (2015 and 2019) and an Olympic Gold Medalist (2012), among other honors. Captain of Reign FC in the National Women’s Soccer League, she has co-captained the national team since 2018. Rapinoe is well-known as an advocate for numerous LGBT organizations and was awarded the Board of Directors Award by the LA Gay and Lesbian Center in 2013. Sponsored by Nike, Samsung, and DJO Global, Megan has gained international fame for both her game and her activism.

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11 ONE DECISION: The First Step to a Better Life By Mike Bayer Nonfiction | Viking | December 29, 2020 |World Rights Agent: Dupree/ Miller & Associates Manuscript available

We make thousands of decisions every day of our lives. Right now, there is at least one decision we can make that will have powerful ripple effects across all aspects of our life and those around us. But how do we determine which decisions matter and which ones don't? And how can we use the ones that matter to get us to where we want to go in our lives? Instead of trying to make the "best" decision, Coach Mike guides you to make the decision as your "Best Self" through simple and practical exercises. Coach Mike reveals areas that are keeping us "stuck," and are standing in our way of progress--including resentment, fear, shame and more. With this critical shift in perception, suddenly we are able to go beyond the decisions themselves and focus instead on creating a better life, no matter what comes our way.

Mike Bayer known to the thousands of clients whose lives he has changed as Coach Mike, is a New York Times bestselling author, sought-after speaker, founder and CEO of CAST Centers, the go-to clinic for artists, athletes, executives, celebrities, and anyone who wants to live more authentically, successfully, and joyfully. Mike has appeared on shows such as The Talk, Face The Truth, Rachael Ray, Dr. Oz, The Breakfast Club and more. He is a recurring guest expert on Entertainment Tonight and a regular contributor to Psychology Today. He is also an expert contributor and regular on the Dr. Phil Show as Coach Mike and is a member of Dr. Phil's advisory board.

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OPTION PUBLISHERS of BEST SELF: Spanish World (Editorial Sirio) Hungarian (Edesviz Kiado) Simplified Chinese (Grand China Publishing House) German (Riva) Italian (Trigono Edizioni) Polish (Helion) Dutch (Scriptum) Korean (Han Books) Romanian (Lifestyle Publishing House) Portuguese/Brazil (Alta Books) Russian (AST) Complex Chinese (Global Group Holdings) Serbian (Vulkan)

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THE 80/80 MARRIAGE: By Nate Klemp and Kaley Klemp Nonfiction | Viking | February 2, 2021| World Rights Agent: DeFiore and Company Manuscript available

A relationship guide based on the authors' own marriage, as well as hundreds of interviews with couples from all walks of life, which advocates pushing past the "battle for fairness" toward a new model grounded on radical generosity, pitched as a cross between Sheryl Sandberg's LEAN IN and Esther Perel's MATING IN CAPTIVITY. Nate and Kaley present the idea of the 80% Partnership, a new model for balancing career and family. The 80% Partnership pushes couples beyond the limited idea of "fairness" toward a new model grounded on radical generosity, one that calls for each partner to contribute 80 percent to their relationship, in order to have the strongest partnership and family possible.

Nate Klemp is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of LIFE XT, one of the nation’s leading corporate mindfulness training firms. He’s also the coauthor of the NYT bestselling START HERE: MASTER THE LIFELONG HABIT OF WELLBEING and is a regular contributor to Mindful Magazine, and has published articles in Entrepreneur Magazine, CBS Small Business Pulse, Mind Body Green, and other leading publications in mindfulness and business

Kaley Klemp is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in the world. A favorite with Young Presidents Organization (YPO) forums and chapters, the world's largest network of chief executives, Kaley has facilitated retreats for more than 350 member and spouse forums throughout the world.

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Portuguese in Brazil (Companhia das Letras)

START HERE was published by:

French (Larousse)

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MY YEAR ABROAD: By Chang-rae Lee Fiction | Riverhead | February 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent: ICM Manuscript available

Praise for MY YEAR ABROAD:

"For a quarter century now, from book to book, he has explored the ever-urgent themes of alienation, assimilation, and identity with unmatched assurance and acuity. He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself."—Jhumpa Lahiri

Tiller is an average college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations and talents. Then he meets Pong Lou, a successful Chinese-American businessman, and everything changes. When Pong invites Tiller along on a boisterous trip across Asia with no return ticket, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to luxury globetrotter. In the process, he's pulled into a series of wholly unexpected experiences--some humorous, some heartbreaking, some darkly shocking, and all of which will alter the course of his life. A year later, passing through an American airport on his way home from this Asian adventure, Tiller takes up with an unlikely older woman and her son, and quickly slips from one life to another as he processes all he's experienced and what it will mean for his future. Told in alternating storylines, Tiller's tale weaves back and forth between his outlandish, memorable year with Pong, and the domestic adulthood that replaces it.

Chang-rae Lee is the author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A GESTURE LIFE, ALOFT, and THE SURRENDERED, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.

OPTION PUBLISHERS: On Such A Full Sea

Little Brown Book Group (UK) RH Korea (Korea) Editions De L’Olivier (France)

Praise for ON SUCH A FULL SEA:

"Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and ON SUCH A FULL SEA provides all that and more. . . .[Chang-rae Lee's] marvelous new book, which imagines a future after the breakdown of our own society takes on those concerns with his customary mastery of quiet detail--and a touch of the fantastic. . . . With ON SUCH A FULL SEA, he has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart."--Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book Review

“I've never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with ON SUCH A FULL SEA, I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?”—Porochista Khakpour, The Los Angeles Times

"“If you loved NEVER LET ME GO, you should read Chang-rae Lee’s new novel.”—Slate

“In his latest and boldest novel, ON SUCH A FULL SEA, Lee’s characters are Chinese immigrant workers in the United States—specifically Chinese workers from a long-elapsed China toiling in a fast-declining America a century or so from now. For Lee’s heroine, Fan, the issue is not acclimatization but self-discovery. The adventures of this feisty yet wary protagonist, together with a bleak but arresting vision of the future, keep the reader rapt and concerned for the fate of both beleaguered character and battered brave new world.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

14 “Now with ON SUCH A FULL SEA, one of our most silken storytellers, Chang-rae Lee, has imagined how it all goes wrong in the darkest installment of this literary night terror yet. The menace of Lee’s book derives from how closely it resembles reality. The haves and have-nots in his world are neatly balkanized. Cities produce, suburbs consume, and only the rich can afford the health care that keeps them alive. . . . With this strange and magically grim book, Chang-rae Lee has allowed us to leave the familiar behind, all so we can see it more clearly.”—The Boston Globe

“[ON SUCH A FULL SEA is] not just a fully realized, time-jumping narrative of an audacious young girl in search of lost loved ones, but an exploration of the meaning and function of narrative, of illusion and delusion, of engineered personalities and faint promises of personhood, and of one powerful nation's disappearance and how that indelibly affects another.”— Chicago Tribune

“Chang-rae Lee’s On Such A Full Sea is so elegiac that it almost collapses into a morass of sorrow, yet it’s so well crafted it’s impossible not to see the story to its end. With his latest novel, Lee creates a world far into the future, where the boundaries between countries have frayed and a semi-dystopian state has arisen. Although Orwellian themes linger in the background, the book itself is really about one woman, and the symbol she becomes to the village she leaves behind.”—A.V. Club (A)

"Lee's prose is sumptuous and at dimes discursive, and for that reason, this is a novel that demands the reader's full engagement. The rewards for that commitment are considerable; On Such a Full Sea is an elegiac and often unsettling glimpse of a future that could be closer than we'd like to think."—Bookpage

"It's an engrossing read, and Lee's skills as a world builder of the finest order are evident in every chapter."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Lee, always entrancing and delving, takes a truly radical leap in this wrenching yet poetic, philosophical, even mystical speculative odyssey. . . . Lee brilliantly and wisely dramatizes class stratification and social disintegration, deprivation and sustenance both physical and psychic, reflecting, with rare acuity, on the evolution of legends and how, in the most hellish of circumstances, we rediscover the solace of art. Electrifying.”—Booklist (starred review)

"A harrowing and fully imagined vision of dystopian America from Lee. . . . The potency and strangeness of [his]characters never diminish the sense that Lee has written an allegory of our current predicaments, and the narration, written in the collective voice of B-Mor, gives the novel the tone of a timeless and cautionary fable. Welcome and surprising proof that there’s plenty of life in end-of-the-world storytelling."—Kirkus (starred review)

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BROTHERS, SISTERS, STRANGERS: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation (previously titled RETURNING BY THE ROAD WE CAME) By Ferm Schumer Chapman Memoir | Viking |February 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Marian Young Manuscript available

Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite many attempts at reconnection. When she tried to turn to others for help, she found that a profound stigma still surrounded estrangement, and that very little statistical and psychological research existed to help her better understand the rift that had broken up her family. So she decided to conduct her own research, interviewing psychologists and estranged siblings as well as recording the extraordinary story of her own rift with her brother--and subsequent reconciliation.

Fern Schumer Chapman the author of several award-winning books, including MOTHERLAND (Viking, 2000), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has appeared in many publications including the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Washington Post, Fortune, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she has taught magazine writing and other seminars at both Northwestern and Lake Forest College.

WATER, WOOD, AND WILD THINGS: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town (previous titled THE FOREIGN WOMAN WORKS IN SAKE BAR) By Hannah Kirshner Nonfiction | Viking | February 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Aevitas Manuscript available

One night, Brooklyn-based artist, food writer and stylist Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with Japan's "Sake Evangelist" in a misty mountain village called Yamanaka. In a rapidly modernizing Japan, the region--a stronghold of the country's old-fashioned ways--was quickly becoming a destination for chefs and artisans looking to learn about the traditions that have long-shaped Japanese culture. Part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of work, and full of her own beautiful drawings, Kirshner's refreshing book is an ode to a place and its people, as well as a profound examination of what it means to preserve traditions and find purpose in cultivation and craft.

Hannah Kirshner writes about Japanese food and travel for the New York Times, Vogue, Saveur, Taste, Food52, and Atlas Obscura, among others. She is New York's go-to food stylist for Japanese recipes, and styles food for Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Marie Claire, Refinery 29, Pop Sugar, and Thrillist, and many more.

16 THE WAY OF INTEGRITY: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Previously titled THE INTEGRITY CLEANSE) By Martha Beck Self-Help | Viking | February 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Linda Loewenthal Manuscript available

Life coach Martha Beck presents a four-stage process to help readers find what lies beneath the weight of social expectations, family beliefs, painful memories or traumatic experiences. Inspired by Dante's DIVINE COMMEDY, Beck uses Dante's classic hero's journey's four stages to take readers from the "dark wood" of confusion and unhappiness, through the inferno of cleansing and the purgatory of practice, finally arriving at the paradise of peace and joy. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path--and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us.

Martha Beck is a best-selling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine non-fiction books and one novel, and has contributed monthly to The Oprah Magazine since its inception. She holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard.

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UK (Piatkus Books) Portuguese in Brazil (Companhia das Letras)

THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO By Donna Freitas Fiction | Viking (Pamela Dorman Books) | March 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent: DeFiore & Co Manuscript available

Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about pre-natal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The reimagining of the answer to this question plays out again and again in each of Rose's nine lives, just as similar questions do for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? Rose Napolitano's experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means, literally, to reinvent a life and, sometimes, become a different kind of woman than she ever imagined.

Donna Freitas has spoken at nearly two hundred colleges and universities about her nonfiction work. She is the author of CONSENT: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, as well as ten novels for children and young adults. This is her first adult novel. Over the years, Donna has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at Adelphi University on Long Island.

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UK (HarperCollins UK) Catalan (PRH Grupo) Czech (Mlada fronta) Finnish (Otava) French (Nil Editions) German (Verlagsgruppe RH) Hebrew (Tchelet) Hungarian (Libri Konyvkiado) Italian (Rizzoli) Serbian (Vulkan) Spanish (PRH Grupo) Lithuanian (UAB Baltu Lanku Leidyba) Polish (Proszynski Media) Swedish ( Norstedts) Portuguese in Brazil (Editora Schwarz) Portuguese in Portugal (Saida de Emergencia)

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“In a powerful exploration of motherhood and feminism, Donna Freitas probes the ties that bind us all to one another through love, through obligation and through choice. At once thought-provoking and emotionally moving, this novel will have readers examining their own relationships and their own ‘what-ifs.’” — Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words

“Nine choices, nine fates, one woman. Donna Freitas takes a woman’s most intimate decision and casts a refracting light on the pressures, regrets, and joys that can accompany it. With crystalline prose that crackles with wit and emotional intensity, she reveals how a woman’s effort to be true to her own choices can be a struggle that requires not only everything she has, but everything she might become. Starkly honest, absorbing, and wholly original.” — Judy Blundell, bestselling author of The High Season and What I Saw and How I Lied

THE STARS WE SHARE (previously EVENSONG) By Rafe Posey Fiction | Viking (Pamela Dorman Books) | March 16, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Sterling Lord Manuscript available

Alec and June meet in a small English town in 1927, when they are children. Alec has lost his parents in India to cholera; he's a dreamy, thoughtful child who maps the stars and makes up stories. June is a gifted young mathematician, memorizing train time tables and studying equations. Their love feels inevitable, until war separates them. Alec becomes an RAF pilot; June, a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. When they're reunited after the war, they return deeply changed by their experiences, each with different expectations and hopes for the future. The couple must decide how much of themselves to reveal to the one they love, which dreams can be sacrificed, and which secrets are too big to bear alone.

Rafe Posey earned his MFA from the University of Baltimore, and currently teaches writing, English, and humanities courses at a maximum security prison in Maryland. His short fiction has appeared in Poydras Review, Empty Sink, and The Light Ekphrastic, and his MFA chapbook, THE BOOK OF BROKEN HYMNS, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. This is his debut novel.

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HEART OF FIRE: An Immigrant Daughter's Story By Senator Mazie Hirono Biography | Viking |April 6, 2021 |World Rights Agent: Aevitas Manuscript available

Now one of the most outspoken leaders on the left, Senator Mazie Keiko Hirono's journey to the U.S. Senate was anything but likely. Raised in poverty on a rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was eight years old when her mother left the abusive man she had married and journeyed with her two elder children to the United States. Despite her remarkable achievements, Hirono was consistently underestimated in her public life. She had always sought to be polite and restrained—an expectation she felt she needed to conform to as an Asian- American woman navigating the old-boy networks of politics. But her reputation as the "good girl of politics" went out the window with the arrival of two crises: a cancer diagnosis, and the results of the 2016 election. The country was in crisis, and she could moderate herself no longer. It was then that Hirono finally began speaking with the full force of her own voice, becoming the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today.

Senator Mazie Hirono is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the Georgetown University Law Center. She has served in the Hawaii House of Representatives (1981-1994), as Hawaii's lieutenant governor from (1994-2002), and in the U.S. House of Representatives (2006-2013). She became Hawaii's first female senator in 2013, winning reelection in 2018. Hirono serves on numerous committees, including the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

LEDA AND THE SWAN: A Novel By Anna Caritj Fiction | Riverhead | May 4, 2021| World Rights Agent: Collins Literary Agency Inc. Manuscript available

A female college student who wakes after a wild Halloween frat party finds she isn't exactly sure what happened with the guy she went home with, and can't recall the last words she spoke to the classmate who now seems to be missing. Pitched as having elements of "Prep," "Cat Person," and "The Secret History," a novel about infatuation, sex, consent, risk, regret, power, and one woman's search for answers about her future.

Anna Caritj holds a BA from the University of Virginia, where she studied Spanish and English literature, and an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. She received the Wagenheim Fiction Prize in 2012 and was a winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ 2016 Intro Journals Project. Her short stories have appeared in Blackbird and Mid-American Review.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“A riveting debut. At once a contemplative novel about a young woman finding her footing in this uncertain world, and a propulsive page-turning. A stunning read and an incisive new voice in fiction.” – Dana Czapnik, author of The Falconer

“Tense and terrifying and beautifully-observed, Anna Caritj’s accomplished debut is a propulsive journey into the dark heart of undergraduate life. Leda and the Swan is both a thriller and a gorgeously crafted exploration of loss, grief, and the painful, dangerous work of finding oneself. An exhilarating novel!” – Kirstin Valdez Quade, author of The Five Wounds

19 “Dark, delicious, and dangerous… Leda’s story is electrifying. I read with bated breath, wondering the entire time what would become of the missing girl, what would become of Leda. Caritj evokes a college world that is at once familiar and transporting, thrilling and terrifying. As Leda grapples with crucial, age-old questions about desire and consent, Caritj’s plot offers a powerful modern twist.” – Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

UNEXPECTED LIFE: A Short History of Living Longer (Previously: 20,000 DAYS: How Humans Gained an Extra Life) By Steven Johnson Medical History | Riverhead | May 11, 2021 | World Agent: Lydia Wills Manuscript available

As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life--the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living--have given us each about 20,000 extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity, and yet it's easy to overlook. This book is Steven Johnson's attempt to understand where that progress came from. A study in how meaningful change happens in society, this book is an ode to the enduring power of common goals and public resources.

Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM, FARSIGHTED, and THE GHOST MAP. He's the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, and the host of the podcast American Innovations.

OPTION PUBLISHERS: Enemy of All Mankind

Korean (Korea Economic Daily) Chinese Simplified (CITIC) Spanish (Turner) Japanese (Asahi Shimbun)

OPTION PUBLISHERS: Farsighted

UK (John Murray) Japanese (Asahi Shimbun) Chinese Simplified (CITIC) Chinese Complex (Walkers) Portuguese in Brazil (Editora Bestseller) Arabic (Dar Altanweer) Spanish (Editorial Sirio) Thai (Se-Education Public Company Li) Romanian (SC Publica Com SRL) Korean (Korean economics Daily) Italian (Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson) Turkish (Notos Kitap Yayincilik)

20 SENTENCE: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison By Daniel Genis Nonfiction | Viking | May 18, 2021| World Rights Agent: Mary Evans Inc. Manuscript estimated for November

In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years (ten with good behavior). Genis is the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic in Russia. He grew up in a home whose visitors included Mikhail Baryshnikov; Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov; authors Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco and Norman Mailer; and Czech film director Miloš Forman. The education and culture so prized by his family were his lifeline during his decade in prison. He survived the decade by reading 1046 books, weightlifting, and having philosophical discussions with various inmates, while encountering violence on a daily basis and working at a series of prison jobs. Having observed an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him, Daniel chronicles the New York penal system in unsparing detail and recounts literature’s power to sustain him.

Daniel Genis was born in New York City and graduated from NYU with a degree in History and French. He has worked as a translator and has written for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Vice, Deadspin, and The New York Daily News.

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BEYOND: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven By Catherine Wolff Nonfiction | Riverhead | May 25, 2021 | World Rights Agent: International Creative Management Manuscript available

What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante, people across millennia have tried to explain and describe heaven in ways that are distinctive and analogous, unique and universal. In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how non-religious influences have affected it, from the Enlightenment to the increasingly non-religious views of heaven today. Wolff looks deep into the accounts of heaven to discover what's common among them and what makes each conception memorable. The result is an engaging, thoughtful exploration of an idea that's central to our humanity and our desire to define an existence beyond death.

Catherine Wolff is a writer and the former director of the Arrupe Center for Community-Based Learning at Santa Clara University. She is a contributor to The Ten Best Books to Read for Easter and edited the collection NOT LESS THAN EVERYTHING: Catholic Writers on Heroes of Conscience. A member of the Catholic Community at Stanford University, she is married to author Tobias Wolff. They have three grown children and live in Stanford, California.

NEW WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST By Winifred Gallagher Nonfiction | Penguin Press | June 1, 2021 | World Rights Agent: ICM Manuscript tentatively due Mid October 2020

In NEW WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the little known and under-reported women who played monumental roles in one of the most vibrant and transformative periods in the history of the United States. Alongside their victories, Gallagher explores the women who were less privileged by race and class, the Native American, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian women, yet joined the fight for universal equality. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, including personal letters and diaries, Gallagher weaves together the striking achievements of those who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps, but played a crucial, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement, and forever redefined the "American woman."

Winifred Gallagher books include HOW THE POST OFFICE CREATED AMERICA, HOUSE THINKING JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (a New York Times Notable Book), WORKING ON GOD, THE POWER OF PLACE, RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life, and NEW: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change. She has written for numerous publications, such as Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times.

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Boardman, Samantha EVERYDAY VITALITY: How to Thrive, Survive, and Feel Alive By Samantha Boardman Nonfiction | Viking | June 1, 2021 | Translation Agent: McCormick & Williams Manuscript TK

EVERYDAY VITALITY is a book about building up our strengths, not just fixing our weaknesses. It's filled with strategies for cultivating vitality--the positive feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of wellbeing. Vitality is associated with positive health outcomes like productivity, better coping with stress and challenges, greater mental health and the ability to manage negative emotions. Vitality comes from three main wellsprings: meaningfully connecting with others, engaging in experiences that challenge you, and contributing to something beyond yourself. These activities foster resilience by boosting emotional stamina and supplying fortification in the face of daily stress.

Samantha Boardman is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Attending Psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. She received a B.A. from Harvard University, M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and a M.A. in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder of PositivePrescription.com, a website devoted to making tweaks and changes that are life-enhancing and resilience-building by combining conventional medicine and psychiatry with positive psychology. She has been featured on the Today Show, is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Refinery 29, Goop, The Wall Street Journal, and Marie Claire

Chakour, Vanessa AWAKENING ARTEMIS By Vanessa Chakour Memoir | Viking | June 8, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Chalberg & Sussman Manuscript tentatively due October 1, 2020

Having experienced a series of physical traumas growing up Chakour pursued various approaches to therapeutic movement. Twenty years now into her journey to reconcile her daily routines with her yearning for greater purpose and connection, Chakour shares the eclectic mix of elements that have brought her deeper self-awareness, a richer understanding of her place in the world, and the confidence and clear boundaries to truly connect with her loved ones. Organized into four sections that move through the seasons and realms of our consciousness, each chapter within in the four sections focuses on a single plant: on it's power to connect us to the season and to illuminate a new part of our psyche. Using storytelling from her own life, Chakour connects the plants power and characteristics to issues we all grapple to heal from and even to understand--from the alienating consequences of cultural appropriation and to the intersection between a forest's mycelial network and the neural pathways of our brains.

Vanessa Chakour is an herbalist, holistic arts educator, former pro-boxer, experienced archer, environmental activist, and founder of Sacred Warrior--a multi-disciplinary educational and experiential "school" offering plant medicine, martial arts, wildlife conservation, and meditation through courses, workshops, and retreats. Chakour has studied and taught with renowned Herbalists such as Robin Rose Bennett and Matthew Wood, and has created events & initiatives on behalf of luminaries such as His Holiness, The Dalai Lama and hip hop legend KRS One.

SOLD TO: UK (Viking Life) German (Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH)

23 THE ASCENT OF INFORMATION: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm (Previously THE WEIGHT OF IDEAS: How Our Data Shapes the World, Our Lives, and the Future) Caleb Scharf Nonfiction | Riverhead | June 15, 2021 | World Rights Agent: Deirdre Mullane Manuscript available

Our entire species is drenched in data. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure to curate the 2.5 quintillion bytes we create every day, we've failed to ask why we're doing this. Why are we expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all the data we and our machines generate? Our data-hoarding tendencies provide us with a massive evolutionary advantage, but we are also subject to our data's whims. Drawing on evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf suggests that we as humans have been co-evolving in a symbiotic relationship with our data, in a realm he terms the "dataome." Much like our microbiome, the dataome conveys both benefits and threats, and the concept offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we create; it's the reason we exist.

Caleb Scharf is the award-winning author of The Zoomable Universe, The Copernicus Complex, and Gravity's Engines and the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nautilus, and Nature, among other publications. He lives in New York City.

Taylor, Brandon FILTHY ANIMALS: Stories By Brandon Taylor Fiction | Riverhead | June 22, 2021 | World Rights Agent: DeFiore And Company Manuscript Available

*Brandon Taylor’s first novel REAL LIFE has been short listed for the 2020 Booker Award.*

In the series of linked stories at the heart of FILTHY ANIMALS, set among young creatives in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, FILTHY ANIMALS is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub. His first novel, REAL LIFE, was long-listed for the 2020 Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selection. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.

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Airgood, Ellen TIN CAMP ROAD: A Novel By Ellen Airgood Fiction | Riverhead | August 3, 2021 | World Rights Agent: The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc Manuscript available

Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other's everything. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and without any warning they are pushed farther to the margins. Suddenly it feels like the independence that has defined them is a liability. And when a dangerous incident threatens to separate them, Laurel and Skye must forever choose--will they leave the place they love and the hardscrabble life they've built to move closer to civilization, or risk everything to embrace the emptiness and wildness that has defined them?

Ellen Airgood runs a diner in Grand Marais, Michigan. She is the author of the novel SOUTH OF SUPERIOR, as well as two works of YA fiction.

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BIG DIRTY MONEY: The Hidden Cost of White Collar Crime By Jennifer Taub Nonfiction | Viking | September 29, 2020 | UK only Agent: Sandra Dijkstra Manuscript available

There is an elite crime spree going on in this country, and the perps—police, business executives, and politicians—are getting away with it all. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke- hold arrest and death. Commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, or cheat on your taxes and you're likely to get off scot free (or win an election). BIG DIRTY MONEY details the scandalously common ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain wealth, social status, and political influence. Jennifer Taub, a well-regarded legal expert, tracks how we got here, and charts an array of legal and policy strategies that can help catch and convict offenders.

Jennifer Taub has testified as a banking law expert before Congress and appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe and CNN Newsroom. Taub is the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and on the faculty of Vermont Law School. She co-founded the Tax March, a nationwide event which drew more than 100,000 Americans on April 15th, 2017, to call on the president to release his tax returns. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law school.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“Anyone arguing that white-collar crime is victimless will have to reckon with this new examination by Taub.”—Bloomberg

"A scathing indictment of white-collar crime and its unpunished practitioners . . . In this steely-eyed examination of these brazen criminals, Taub holds that this lack of effective punishment merely encourages the wealthy to prey on the rest of society . . . A significant manifesto for judicial reform that aims at cracking the cabal of big-money grifters at the top."— Kirkus Reviews (*starred review*)

“The United States is drowning in dirty money; we’ve constructed a two-tiered system of justice, of corruption and campaign finance; of bailouts and bankruptcies. Jennifer Taub ably and cogently strips bare the racism and regulatory failures that have made America’s wealthiest predators too big to fail and too spectacular to jail. Anyone worried about how these failures shape politics, elections, journalism, and justice should take notice.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior legal editor, Slate

“In the corporate and political worlds, Taub finds a rampant crime wave, touching more than our financial markets and the halls of Congress. It intrudes into our daily lives, threatening our health, food, environment, and well-being. Sweeping and comprehensive, her work culminates in a groundbreaking series of imaginative solutions to refocus our efforts on combatting elite crime to help American society recover.” —Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Chickenshit Club

“A stimulating and provocative book that challenges the current administration on its handling of white collar crimes. It sets the stage for change.” —Ellen Podgor, Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor at Stetson University College of Law

“Donald Trump’s time as president has revealed a ruling class that appears untouchable as in authoritarian regimes. But well before that, Trump was used to escaping accountability like other corporate insiders. Jennifer Taub details how this cycle of rewarding bad behavior has consolidated power in the hands of few and hurt our country.” —Amy Siskind, president, The

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“It’s no accident that African-American citizens can be brutalized or even killed for minor alleged infractions, while corporate wrongdoers escape prosecution or punishment. When we see street corner drug dealers denied bail but crooked pharmaceutical conglomerates payout dividends, we are seeing the justice system work as intended. Taub explains how the rot goes right to the heart of our legal and regulatory systems themselves.” —Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation

“Taub shines light on fraud, tax evasion and corruption, where wrongdoings can be hard to detect and the bar for creating accountability is too high. She issues a passionate call to action and outlines sensible reforms, at least some of which should resonate broadly and across our political divides.” —Anat Admati, George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It

THE FASTING FIX: A Doctor’s Guide to Eating Better and Living Longer By Andreas Michalsen PhD Nonfiction | Viking | December 29, 2020 | UK only Agent: c/o Viking Manuscript available

In THE FASTING FIX, Dr. Andreas Michalsen introduces simple methods of fasting which all of us can easily practice in our everyday lives. He combines decades of medical practice and research along with his deep knowledge about the human body and evolutionary history to distill the truth about what and how we should eat. With stories from patients, he's successfully treated for the most common chronic diseases: obesity, heart disease, allergies, depression, cancer, and many others, Dr. Michalsen shows us why other diets have failed, and how we can finally be healthy.

Andreas Michalsen, MD, PhD is professor of clinical complementary medicine at the Charité University Medical Center Berlin, the largest university hospital in Europe. He is also head of the department of internal and complementary medicine at Immanuel Hospital Berlin. He has published over 200 scientific articles in top medical journals and has collaborated with Stanford University, Harvard University, USC, the Mayo Clinic, and many other institutions. He is the author of the international bestseller THE NATURE CURE, published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton.

OPTION PUBLISHERS: The Nature Cure UK (Hodder & Stoughton/ Yellow Kite)

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HADES, ARGENTINA By Daniel Loedel Fiction | Riverhead | January 12, 2021 | UK Only Agent: Janklow & Nesbit Associates Manuscript available

In this debut novel, a man who “disappeared” during the political violence of the Dirty War in Argentina is summoned back home to a dying woman’s bedside—only to discover the ghosts of his past have been lying in wait for his return.

Daniel Loedel is an editor at Scribner, whose authors include James Donovan, Laura Cumming, Daniel Magariel, Virgina Reeves, and Aravind ADiga. He attended Brown University, where he founded The Round Magazine, and lived in Argentina working as a translator.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt. It sets the personal against the political with real emotional accuracy and sharp narrative skill.” – Colm Tóibín

“A remarkable novel, as imaginatively bold as it is morally complex. It will stay with me for a very long time.” –Kamila Shamsie, author of HOME FIRE

“Loedel writes in the venerable Argentinian tradition of mixing the political and the supernatural, but his novel comes from a different language and a new sensibility. It took me to places I had never visited before.” – Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“Strange, gorgeous, and terrifying—a book for the grievers, and for those of us who wish we could turn back time to remedy past mistakes—and so, for all of us.” —R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries

“A remarkable novel, personal and political, elegiac and intimate, with a tenderness and wisdom evident in every passage. A beautiful book.” —Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names

“A stunning descent into the haze of memory and history. In his interrogation of complicity and violence, Loedel explores how institutionalized evil disappears humans not only from the physical world, but from their own souls as well.” –Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes A River

“Hades, Argentina brilliantly explores the fault lines between heroism and complicity, guilt and trauma, and love and betrayal. Daniel Loedel has written a haunting and beautiful novel.” —Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

AFTER THE SUN By Jonas Eika Fiction | Riverhead | June 8, 2021 | UK only Agent: Ahlander Agency AB Manuscript available

In this hypnotic collection of pathbreaking fiction, a missed meeting in Copenhagen catapults an IT consultant into derivative trading, a young boy working at a beach club in Cancún struggles to survive, a love triangle in London’s underworld falls to pieces, and a grieving man tries to merge with a strange machine in the Nevada desert. This taut collection explores a globalized world defined by capitalism and saturated with desire. Eika’s universe is a dreamscape where anything might happen - where the imagined and the hyper realistic together balance on a knife’s edge, and where there is startling beauty in the grotesque. Jonas grabs hold of his reader with tender fury and opens doors to new realities. His writing transcends nationality, sex, and social class, throbbing with an irrepressible urgency in search of something to call authentic.

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SOLD TO (by the agent): Danish (Basilisk) Czech (Fra) German (Hanser Berlin) Norweigen (Gyldendal) Swedish (Modernista)

CENTER, CENTER: An Almost-Memoir of My Life on the Stage By James Whiteside Memoir | Viking | August 17, 2021 | UK only Agent: CAA Manuscript available

In this absurd and absurdist collection of essays, Whiteside tells us the story of how he got to “center, center,” a mark on every stage around the world that signifies the center of its depth and width. From the tragically fated childhood pets who taught him how to feel, summer dance camps at which he paid more attention to partying than to ballet, to imagined fantastical run-ins with Jesus on Grindr. To subvert the strict classical rigor of ballet, he created two alter egos: JbDubs, an out-and-proud pop musician, and Ühu Betch, an over-the-top drag queen named after Yoohoo chocolate milk. Whiteside is breaking norms left and right, earning a name for himself as the fearless and outrageous dancer who shows up to company ballet class dressed in drag and models pointe shoes on his Instagram.

James Whiteside is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, a pop star, and a member of the NYC-based drag posse the Dairy Queens, which also includes RuPaul's Drag Race alum Milk. He has choreographed for music videos, commercials, film, and ballet, and in 2018, he starred in Arthur Pita's dance/theater work The Tenant at The Joyce Theater in New York City. Whiteside also hosts his own popular podcast, The Stage Rightside with James Whiteside. His song and music video "I Hate My Job" has been featured in The New York Times, Huffington Post, MTV, Billboard, and more.

UNTITLED ON HONG KONG By Louisa Lim Nonfiction | Riverhead | April 5, 2022 | UK Only Agent: Williams & Connolly Manuscript tentatively due November 2020

In this history of Hong Kong, Louisa portrays her city's reclaiming of its uniquely hybrid history and identity, at the very moment when both are threatened with erasure. Alternating between past and present, Louisa narrates the past through a generation of artists and activists, like the well-known “King of Kowloon,” a trash collector/ local artist who descended from royalty into mental illness. Louisa parallels this history with her family’s own turbulent past in the city, further cementing the irrevocable bond between the identity of the city and its people who are ready to reclaim a narrative from which they were systematically omitted.

Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist who has reported from China for a decade, most recently for National Public Radio. Previously she was the BBC’s Beijing Correspondent. She is also the author of THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Award.

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FUTURE BOOKS

MONSTER IN THE MIDDLE By Tiphanie Yanique Fiction | Riverhead | November 2, 2021 | World Rights Agent Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Manuscript TK

From the award-winning author of LAND OF LOVE AND DROWNING, a new novel that maps the romantic history of one couple, going all the way back to the preceding generation to explain how two people from different backgrounds—a Black American man and a Caribbean woman—must overcome and incorporate the past in order to be together. (With an excerpt previously published in The New Yorker magazine)

Tiphanie Yanique is an English professor at Emory University. Her novel LAND OF LOVE AND DROWNING, won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, a 2015 Rosenthal Family Foundatoion Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Award in Fiction, and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2014.

LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE: How YouTube Drives Google’s Dominance and Controls Our Culture By Mark Bergen Nonfiction | Viking | February 1, 2022 | World Rights Agent: Massie and McQuilkin LLC Manuscript due in June 2021

The first authoritative book on YouTube, LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE follows of the birth and rise of the company. This technical marvel grew into a global phrenomenon that helped transform Google into one of the world’s most profitable and powerful institutions. Google went from espousing “Don’t Be Evil,” to spreading propoganda, hate speech, and violent footage through its most powerful outlet. With insider access to company heads, former executives, and “YouTubers” that have used the platform to rise to fame, this quintessential silicon valley story about corruption, greed, and profit and will be the first book to reveal YouTube’s business strategies and explain exactly how their technology and business has evolved alongside Google’s.

Mark Bergen is a lead Google reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and has been published by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Reuters, The New Yorker, and Recode, and has appeared on NPR, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC.

SOLD TO UK (Penguin Business) Germany (Droemer) Russia (Eksmo)

30 THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER By Ray Kurzweil Nonfiction | Viking | September 6, 2022 (moved from July 2020)| World Rights Agent: Loretta Barrett Books Manuscript TK

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come.

Ray Kurzweil is the author of the New York Times bestseller THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR and the national bestseller THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES, among others. One of the leading inventors of our time, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. He is the recipient of many honors, including the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology.

OPTION PUBLISHERS: How to Create a Mind Duckworth UK Dar Altanweer (Arabic) Editora Aleph (Brazil) Iztok-Zapad (Bulgaria) Cheers (China) Lola Books (German) Mindmap (Korea) Apogeo (Italy) De Wereld (Netherlands) Janusc Nawrocki Studio (Poland) Paralela 45 (Romania) Eksmo (Russia) Lola Books (Spain) EcoTrend (Taiwan) Bilgi University Press (Turkey) Omega Books (Vietnam)

JOBS FOR GIRLS WITH ARTISTIC FLAIR By Jen Hinst-White Fiction | Pamela Dorman Books | June, 14, 2022 Agent: Chad Luibl Manuscript TK

A LGBTQ coming-of-age story pitched as THE CACTUS meets PIZZA GIRL, about a young woman in 1980s Long Island who chases her dream of becoming a tattooist despite her social anxiety, an unreliable family, and an industry hostile to women artists.

Jen Hinst-White holds an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, where she was a Liam Rector Scholar. She was also a 2017 Sustainable Arts Fellow at Rivendell Writers Colony. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Common; The Missouri Review; Sojourners; The Southampton Review; Image Journal; Consequence Magazine; Cordella; and elsewhere. Her novella, A Fortune, was published in Big Fiction in 2014.

31 WOMAN UP: The New Science of the Female Athlete By Christine Taub Nonfiction | Riverhead | September 13, 2022 | World Agent: Waxman Leavell Manuscript TK

WOMAN UP will take a comprehensive look at the new scientific understanding of female athletes. Combining the latest research and compelling storytelling, this book reveals the current wave of ground-breaking research on women, physiology and sport science—the research necessary to break the male-centric mold, to underpin a new system that will transform and empower girls and women in sports, and, ultimately, to fix #FixGirlsSports.

Christine Taub is a freelance journalist covering sports, science, and health and has written several articles for Outside Magazine that have inspired this title.

FINDING CALM By Christopher Bailey Nonfiction | Viking | November 29. 2022 } World Agent: Lucinda Literary Manuscript TK

Author of THE PRODUCTIVITY PROJECT and HYPERFOCUS Chris Bailey's FINDING CALM, an account of the dangers of pursuing productivity at all costs, arguing that we can in fact accomplish more with less, and offering a new understanding of the neurochemicals that make us feel most anxious,

OPTION PUBLISHERS: Romanian (Lifestyle) Chinese Complex (Commonwelath) Portuguese in Brazil (Saraiva Educacao) Thai (Se-Education) Spanish (Editorial Reverte) Portuguese in Portugal (Grupo Almedina) Arabic (Jarir) Russian (Alpina) Korean (MID Publishing) German (Redline) Vietnamese (Saigon) Dutch (Uitgeverij Business) UK (Macmillan) Chinese Simplified (Beijing Xiron) Czech (Grada) Turkish (Saltokur)

THE NEXT WAVE: COVID-19 and the World By John Barry Nonfiction | Viking |September 3, 2024 | World Manuscript TK

Author of the NYT bestseller, THE GREAT INFLUENZA, John Barry's THE NEXT WAVE: COVID-19 AND THE WORLD, a book with a broad sweep which incorporates history, science, and politics in a narrative that covers not only events in the United States but around the world over the last century, again.

Option publishers for THE GREAT INFLUENZA:

Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Scientific) Chinese Complex (The Commercial Press) Japanese (Chikumashobo) Spanish (Capitan Swing) UK (Penguin Books) Lithuanian (Bredis) Thai (Arrow) Koean (Haeri Books) Arabic (That Al Salasil) Portuguese in Brazil (Editora Intrinseca) French (Editions Leduc) Russian (Alpina publishers)

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