Summer 2018 Summer 2018

Spring/Karl Ove Knausgaard How to Change Your Mind/Michael Pollan Sh*tshow!/Charlie Leduff There Are No Grown-ups/Pamela Druckerman The Dante Chamber/Matthew Pearl Frenemies/Ken Auletta The Secret Life of Cows/Rosamund Young An Excellent Choice/Emma Brockes My Year of Rest and Relaxation/Ottessa Moshfegh The Omega Principle/Paul Greenberg The Coddling of the American Mind/Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt Killing It/Camas Davis A Short Film About Disappointment/Joshua Mattson The Cut Out Girl/Bart van Es A Life of My Own/Claire Tomalin SPRING KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

isbn: 9780399563362 price: $27.00 on sale date: 5/8/2019 SPRING KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

An emotionally intense stand-alone novel from a literary grandmaster, Spring follows the previous two volumes in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s four seasons series

You don’t know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don’t know happened during the time when her mother was what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don’t know what night is, yet pregnant, and explain why he now has to attend you lie in it. You don’t know what a heart is, yet your own heart appointments with child services. In order to keep beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day his daughter safe, he must tell a terrible story, one and night. which unfolds with acute psychological suspense over the course of a single day. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Utterly gripping, and brilliantly rendered Knausgaard’s fantastic and spellbinding literary in Knausgaard’s famously sensitive, pensive, and project of assembling a personal encyclopedia honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and of the world addressed directly to his now heartbreaking familial trauma, and the emotional newly-born daughter. But here Knausgaard epicenter of this singular literary series. must also tell his daughter the story of the what

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD’s first novel,Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My

isbn: 9781594204227 price: $28.00 on sale: 5/15/2018 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND MICHAEL POLLAN

A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD from the myths that have surrounded them and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic since the Sixties, when a handful of psychedelic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to evangelists catalyzed a powerful backlash against people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions what was then a promising field of research. such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did A unique and elegant blend of science, not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, personal book. But upon discovering how these How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory remarkable substances are improving the lives not journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people gripping account of a journey to an exciting and coming to grips with the challenges of everyday unexpected new frontier in our understanding of life, he decided to explore the landscape of the the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus true subject of Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not began a singular adventure into the experience of just psychedelic drugs, but the eternal puzzle of various altered states of consciousness, along with a human consciousness and how, in a world that dive deep into both the latest brain science and the offers us both struggle and beauty, we can do our thriving underground community of psychedelic best to be fully present and find meaning in our therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to lives. separate the truth about these mysterious drugs

MICHAEL POLLAN is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME

isbn: 9780399563331 price: $27.00 on sale: 5/22/2018 SH*TSHOW! CHARLIE LEDUFF

A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President—at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was there

In the Fall of 2013, long before any sane person had undrinkable water. Racial, political, social, and seriously considered the possibility of a Trump economic tensions were escalating by the day. presidency, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then- The inexorable effects of technological change Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and made a simple but and globalization were being felt more and more prophetic claim: The American people were at acutely, at the same time as wages stagnated and breaking point. The country was going broke and the price of housing, education, and healthcare on high boil. No one in the bubbles of Washington, went through the roof. The American people felt DC., New York, or Los Angles was talking about defeated and abandoned by their politicians, and it--least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the the heart of the country to report what was really occasion. The old way of life was slipping away, going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and replaced only by social media, part-time work, and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But, then, opioid addiction. perhaps on a whim, he agreed. And so LeDuff set Sh*tshow is that true, tragic, and distinctively out to record a TV series called, “The Americans,” American story, told from the parts of the country and, along the way, ended up bearing witness to hurting the most. A soul-baring, irreverent, and the ever-quickening unraveling of The American iconoclastic writer, LeDuff speaks the language of Dream. everyday Americans, and is unafraid of getting his For three years, LeDuff travelled the width hands dirty. He scrambles the tired-old political, and breadth of the country with his team of social, and racial categories, taking no sides--or production irregulars, ending up on the Mexican prisoners. Old-school, gonzo-style reporting, this border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber is both a necessary confrontation with the darkest kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; parts of the American psyche and a desperately- in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. and watching the children of Flint get sick from

CHARLIE LEDUFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, formerly at the New York Times and the Detroit News, and Detroit’s Fox 2 News. The author of Detroit, US Guys, and Work and Other Sins, he lives near Detroit. THERE ARE NO GROWN-UPS PAMELA DRUCKERMAN

isbn: 9781594206375 price: $27.00 on sale: 5/29/2018 THERE ARE NO GROWN-UPS PAMELA DRUCKERMAN

The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bébé investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.

When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start • There’s at least one sport your doctor forbids calling her “Madame,” and she detects a disturbing you to play. new message in mens’ gazes: I would sleep with • You become impatient while scrolling down her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever. to your year of birth. Yet forty isn’t even technically middle-aged • Your parents have stopped trying to change anymore. And after a lifetime of being clueless, you. Druckerman can finally grasp the subtext of con- • You don’t want to be with the cool people versations, maintain (somewhat) healthy relation- anymore; you want to be with your people. ships and spot narcissists before they ruin her life. • You realize that everyone is winging it, some What are the modern forties, and what do we just do it more confidently. know once we reach them? What makes someone a • You know that it’s ok if you don’t like jazz. “grown-up” anyway? And why didn’t anyone warn us that we’d get cellulite on our arms? Part frank Internationally best-selling author and New York memoir, part hilarious investigation of daily life, Times contributor Pamela Druckerman leads us on There Are No Grown-Ups diagnoses the in-between a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right decade when... pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) • Everyone you meet looks a little bit familiar. coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying • You’re matter-of-fact about chin hair. to find their place in the world. • You can no longer wear anything ironically.

PAMELA DRUCKERMAN is the author of four books including Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, which has been translated into 27 languages. She’s also a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. © tk THE DANTE CHAMBER MATTHEW PEARL

isbn: 9781594204937 price: $28.00 on sale: 6/5/2018 THE DANTE CHAMBER MATTHEW PEARL

From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murder

The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante- order to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found between the shimmering mansions of the elite and murdered in the public gardens of London with the dark corners of London’s underworld, they an enormous stone around his neck etched with descend further and further into the mystery. But a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more when the true inspiration behind the gruesome mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the murders is finally revealed, Christina realizes that style of the punishments Dante memorialized in the perpetrator has even bigger and more horrific Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, plans than she had initially thought. the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel A dazzling tale of intrigue from the writer Rossetti, will be the next victim. Library Journal calls “the reigning king of popular Christina enlists poets Robert Browning and literary historical thrillers,” The Dante Chamber is Alfred Tennyson, and famous scholar Dr. Oliver a riveting adventure across London and through Wendell Holmes, to assist in deciphering the Dante. Expertly blending fact and fiction, Pearl literary clues. Together these unlikely investigators gives us a historical mystery like no other, rush to unravel the secrets of Dante’s verses in captivating and enthralling until the last page.

MATTHEW PEARL is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Last Bookaneer, The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, and The Technologists. His books have been New York Times bestsellers and international bestsellers, and have been translated into more than 30 languages. His nonfiction writing has appeared in theNew York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Slate. com. He has been heard on shows including NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend Edition Sunday, and his books have been featured on Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning. FRENEMIES KEN AULETTA

isbn: 9780735220867 price: $30.00 on sale: 6/5/2018 FRENEMIES KEN AULETTA

An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled

Advertising and marketing touches on every media agency GroupM, the most powerful media corner of our lives, and is the invisible fuel agency, but like all media agencies it is staring into powering almost all media. Complain about it the headlights as ad buying is more and more done though we might, without it the world would be by machine in the age of Oracle and IBM. We see a darker place. And of all the industries wracked the world from the vantage of its new powers, like by change in the digital age, few have been turned Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s head of Sales, and on its head as dramatically as this one has. We are a other brash and scrappy creatives who are driving long way from the days of Don Draper; as Mad Men change, as millennials and others who disdain ads is turned into Math Men (and women—though as an interruption employ technology to zap them. too few), as an instinctual art is transformed into We also peer into the future, looking at what is a science, the old lions and their kingdoms are replacing traditional advertising. And throughout feeling real fear, however bravely they might roar. we follow the industry’s peerless matchmaker, Frenemies is Ken Auletta’s reckoning with an Michael Kassan, whose company, MediaLink, industry under existential assault. He enters the connects all these players together, serving as the rooms of the ad world’s most important players, industry’s foremost power broker, a position which some of them business partners, some adversaries, feasts on times of fear and change. many “frenemies,” a term whose ubiquitous use in Frenemies is essential reading, not simply this industry reveals the level of anxiety, as former because of what it says about this world, but allies become competitors, and accusations of because of the potential consequences: the survival kickbacks and corruption swirl. We meet the old of media as we know it depends on the money guard, including Sir Martin Sorrell, the legendary generated by advertising and marketing—revenue head of WPP, the world’s largest ad agency holding that is in peril in the face of technological changes company; while others play nice with Facebook and the fraying trust between the industry’s key and Google, he rants, some say Lear-like, out on players. the heath. There is Irwin Gotlieb, maestro of the

KEN AULETTA has written the “Annals of Communications” column and profiles for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of eleven books, including Three Blind Mice, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, World War 3.0, and Googled. In naming him America’s premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review said, “No other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta.” He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS ROSAMUND YOUNG

isbn: 9780525557319 price: $23.00 on sale: 6/12/2018 THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS ROSAMUND YOUNG

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals

At her famous Kite’s Nest Farm in Worcestershire, Most of us never apprehend the various inner England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and lives animals possess, least of all those that we pigs) all roam free. They make their own choices might eat. But Young has spent countless hours about rearing, grazing, and housing. Left to be observing how these creatures love, play games, themselves, the cows exhibit temperaments and and form life-long friendships. She imparts hard- interests as diverse as our own. “Fat Hat” prefers won wisdom about the both moral and real-world men to women; “Chippy Minton” refuses to sleep benefits of organic farming. (If preserving the with muddy legs and always reports to the barn dignity of animals isn’t a good enough reason for for grooming before bed; “Jake” has a thing for you, consider how badly factory farming stunts sniffing the carbon monoxide fumes of the Land the growth of animals, producing unhealthy and Rover exhaust pipe; and “Gemima” greets all tasteless food.) humans with an angry shake of the head and is This gorgeously-illustrated book, which fiercely independent. includes an original introduction by the legendary An organic farmer for decades, Young has British playwright Alan Bennett, is the summation an unaffected and homely voice. Her prose brims of a life’s work, and a delightful and moving tribute with genuine devotion to the wellbeing of animals. to the deep richness of animal sentience.

Kite’s Nest Farm is on the edge of The Cotswold escarpment. It is run by ROSAMUND YOUNG, her brother Richard, and her partner Gareth. Nature is left to itself as much as possible and the animals receive exceptional kindness and consideration. Kite’s Nest Farm produces beef and lamb from 100% grass-fed animals which are butchered and sold in the farm shop. AN EXCELLENT CHOICE EMMA BROCKES

isbn: 9781594206634 price: $27.00 on sale: 6/26/2018 AN EXCELLENT CHOICE EMMA BROCKES

From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one’s own via assisted reproduction

When British journalist, memoirist, and New OB/GYN—all the while exploring the cultural York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become circumstances and choices that have brought pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, her to this point. Brockes writes with charming and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, self-effacing humor about being a British woman she’s going to have to be untraditional about it. undergoing fertility treatment in the US, poking From the moment she decides to stop “futzing” fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans. around, have her eggs counted, and “get Anxious that biological children might not be cracking”; through multiple trials of IUI, which possible, she wonders, should she resent society she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk for how it regards and treats women who try and packages, just like Costco; to the births of her fail to have children? twins, which her girlfriend gamely documents Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine with her iPhone and selfie-stick, Brockes is never how and why an increasing number of women any less than bluntly and bracingly honest about are using fertility treatments in order to become her extraordinary journey to motherhood. parents—and are doing it solo. Bringing the She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons reader every step of the way with mordant wit and of personally knowing one’s sperm donor, grapples remarkable candor, Brockes shares the frustrations, with esoteric medical jargon and the existential embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues momentous and excellent choice. and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian

EMMA BROCKES is the author of She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me.She writes for The Guardian’s Weekend magazine and has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist and Vogue. She is the winner of two British Press Awards—Young Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year—and while at Oxford won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for Journalism. She lives in New York. MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

isbn: 9780525522119 price: $26.00 on sale: 7/10/2018 MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia answer to that question. Through the story of graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, a year spent under the influence of a truly mad lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous shows us how reasonable, even necessary, hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her the gifts of one of our major writers working at the best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter height of her powers. with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH is a fiction writer from New England.Eileen , her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the

isbn: 9781594206344 price: $27.00 on sale: 7/10/2018 THE OMEGA PRINCIPLE PAUL GREENBERG

By the bestselling author of Four Fish and American Catch, an eye-opening investigation of the history, science, and business behind omega-3 fatty acids, the “miracle compound” whose story is intertwined with human health and the future of our planet

Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated by of the push-and-pull of science and business; of doctors and dieticians as key to a healthy heart the fate of our oceans in a human-dominated and a sharper brain. In the last few decades, that age; of the explosion of land food at the expense promise has been encapsulated in one of America’s of healthier and more sustainable seafood; of most popular dietary supplements. Omega-3s are the human quest for health and long life at all today a multi-billion dollar business, and sales are costs. James Beard Award-winning author Paul still growing apace--even as recent medical studies Greenberg probes the rich and surprising history caution that the promise of omega-3s may not be of omega-3s--from the dawn of complex life, what it first appeared. when these compounds were first formed; to But a closer look at the omega-3 sensation human prehistory, when the discovery of seafood reveals something much deeper and more may have produced major cognitive leaps for our troubling. The miracle pill is only the latest species; and on to the modern era, when omega- product of the reduction industry, a vast, global 3s may point the way to a bold new direction for endeavor that over the last century has boiled our food system. With wit and boundless curiosity, down trillions of pounds of marine life into Greenberg brings us along on his travels--from animal feed, fertilizer, margarine, and dietary Peru to Antarctica, from the Canary Islands to the supplements. The creatures that are the victims of Amalfi Coast--to reveal firsthand the practice and that industry seem insignificant to the untrained repercussions of our unbalanced way of eating. eye, but turn out to be essential to the survival of Rigorously reported and winningly told, The whales, penguins, and fish of all kinds, including Omega Principle is a powerful argument for a more many that we love to eat. deliberate and forward-thinking relationship to the Behind these tiny molecules is a big story: food we eat and the oceans that sustain us.

PAUL GREENBERG is the author of the James Beard Award-winning Four Fish and American Catch and a regular contributor to The New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and GQ, among other publications, and he has lectured widely on ocean issues at institutions ranging from Google to Yale to the U.S. Senate. He lives in New York. THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND GREG LUKIANOFF & JONATHAN HAIDT

isbn: 9780735224896 price: $28.00 on sale: 7/17/2018 THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND GREG LUKIANOFF & JONATHAN HAIDT

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.

The generation now coming of age has been taught campus today, including the loss of unsupervised three Great Untruths: their feelings are always play time and the birth of social media, all during right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; a time of rising political polarization. and they should look for faults in others and not This is a book about how to fix the mess. The themselves. These three Great Untruths are part of culture of “safety” and its intolerance of opposing a larger philosophy that sees young people as fragile viewpoints has left many young people anxious creatures who must be protected and supervised and unprepared for adult life, with devastating by adults. But despite the good intentions of the consequences for them, for their parents, for adults who impart them, the Great Untruths the companies that will soon hire them, and for are harming kids by teaching them the opposite a democracy that is already pushed to the brink of ancient wisdom and the opposite of modern of violence over its growing political divisions. psychological findings on grit, growth, and Lukianoff and Haidt offer a comprehensive set of antifragility. The result is rising rates of depression reforms that will strengthen young people and and anxiety, along with endless stories of college institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits of campuses torn apart by moralistic divisions and diversity, including viewpoint diversity. mutual recriminations. This is a book for anyone who is confused by This is a book about how we got here. First what’s happening on college campuses today, or Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social has children, or is concerned about the growing psychologist Jonathan Haidt take us on a tour inability of Americans to live and work and of the social trends stretching back to the 1980s cooperate across party lines. that have produced the confusion and conflict on

GREG LUKIANOFF is an attorney and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. His writings on campus free speech have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, in addition to dozens of other publications. A regular columnist for the Huffington Post, he is a frequent guest on nationally syndicated radio programs and has made numerous television appearances, including on the CBS Evening News and Stossel. He received the 2008 Playboy Foundation Freedom of Expression Award and the 2010 Ford Hall Forum’s Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award on behalf of FIRE. Lukianoff is a graduate of American University and Stanford Law School.

JONATHAN HAIDT is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and then taught at the University of Virginia for 16 years. He is the author of The Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis. He lives in New York City. KILLING IT CAMAS DAVIS

isbn: 9781101980071 price: $27.00 on sale: 7/24/18 KILLING IT CAMAS DAVIS

The story of a wayward young woman’s transformation from knowing magazine journalist to humble butcher, in the process discovering what it means to take life into her own hands

Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads, to say communal cooking school and took in strays in the least. A longtime magazine writer and editor in exchange for odd work, it sounded like just what the food world, she’d returned to her home state of the doctor ordered. Her new teacher offered her Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to entree to a nearby family of French butchers, the take an appealing job at a smart Portland lifestyle Chapolard brothers, who were willing to take her magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered under their wing and induct her in their way of life, on the dream, and before she knew what hit her, which prizes pleasure, compassion, community, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing and authenticity. So when she found a forgotten to fall back on. What she did know was that she credit card that had just enough credit on it to buy was sick of being in the business of mediating other a plane ticket, she took it as kismet. people’s experiences. She didn’t want to write So begins Camas Davis’s funny, heartfelt, about the real thing any longer; she wanted to be searching memoir of her journey to becoming a the real thing. successful and enlightened butcher, of all things. A child of the country, Camas grew up It’s a story that takes her from an eye-opening stint hunting and fishing, and she found in her Portland in a rural France where deep artisanal craft thrives foodie world that her core self connected deeply despite the rise of mass scale agribusiness, back to a with animals and food. But she had moral Portland in the throes of a food revolution, where and philosophical questions about the ethics it suddenly seems possible to translate much of of meat-eating, and where food fits in a larger this old-world craft into a new world setting. The environmental framework. She knew just enough journey is not without its heartaches and fiascos, to know what she didn’t know and wanted to but in the end it amounts to a triumphant story learn. So when a friend told her about an American of figuring out what being the real thing means to woman in Gascony, France who ran a sort of you and carving out a path until you get it.

CAMAS DAVIS is a former editor and writer for magazines including Saveur and National Geographic Adventure. In 2009, she traveled to southwest France to study whole animal butchery and charcuterie and subsequently founded the Portland Meat Collective, a transparent, hands-on meat school that has become a local and national resource for meat education and reform. In 2014, Camas launched the Meat Collective Alliance (MCA), a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring responsible meat production and consumption through experiential education across the country. Camas and the Portland Meat Collective have been covered in media outlets such as the New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, and Dark Rye. A SHORT FILM ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT JOSHUA MATTSON

isbn: 9780525522843 price: $25.00 on sale: 8/7/2018 A SHORT FILM ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT JOSHUA MATTSON

An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews

In near-future America, film critic Noah Body he’s infatuated with a doctor who has diagnosed uploads his reviews to an underread content him with a “disease of thought.” Exhausted by aggregator. His job is dreary routine: watch, seethe, days spent watching flicks featuring monks with pan. He dreams of making his own film, free of the a passion for rock and roll and slashers featuring hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing rampaging hairdressers, Noah is determined to on lousy movies for a website that no one reads, create his own masterpiece: a filmed meditation Noah smuggles into his reviews depictions of his on art-with-a-capital-A, written by, directed by, troubled life on the margins. and starring himself. Amid his movie reviews, we learn that his Set in a wildly imaginative and uncannily apartment in the vintage slum of Miniature familiar world of nanny states and extreme Aleppo has been stripped of furniture after his rationing, Safe Zones and New Koreas, A Short wife ran off with his best friend--who Noah Film About Disappointment is an uproarious story believes has possessed his body. He’s in the middle of trying to keep it together in turbulent times. of an escalating grudge match against a vending Joshua Mattson is a debut novelist with a rotten machine tycoon with a penchant for violence. And wit and the creative vision of a hyperactive child.

JOSHUA MATTSON has worked as a short-order cook, baker, chef, and organization manager for various restaurants and food businesses in the Twin Cities. He has cooked for the Queen of Spain, several television stars, and the mother of Justin Bieber. THE CUT OUT GIRL BART VAN ES

isbn: 9780735222243 price: $28.00 on sale: 8/14/2018 THE CUT OUT GIRL BART VAN ES

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author’s grandparents

Bart van Es left Holland for England many years Nazi occupation for taking Lientje and other ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never Jewish children in. And there are more mundane left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish sacrifices a family under brutal occupation must girl named Lientje had been taken in during the make to provide for even the family they already war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed have. But tidy Holland also must face a darker over by her parents, who understood the danger truth, namely that it was more cooperative in they were in all too well. The girl had been raised rounding up its Jews for the Nazis than any other by her foster family as one of their own, but then, Western European country; that is part of Lientje’s well after the war, there was a falling out, and they story too. Her time in hiding was made much more were no longer in touch. What was the girl’s side terrifying by the energetic efforts of the local Dutch of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened authorities, zealous accomplices in the mission of during the war, and after? sending every Jew, man, woman and child, East to So began an investigation that would their extermination. And Lientje was not always consume Bart van Es’s life, and change it. After particularly well treated, and sometimes, Bart some sleuthing, he learned that Lientje was now learned, she was very badly treated indeed. in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Somewhat The Cut Out Girl is an astonishment, a deeply reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually moving reckoning with a young girl’s struggle for they struck up a remarkable friendship, even a survival during war, a story about the powerful partnership. The Cut Out Girl braids together a love of foster families but also the powerful powerful recreation of that intensely harrowing challenges, and about the ways our most painful childhood story of Lientje’s with the present- experiences define us but also can be redefined, day account of Bart’s efforts to piece that story on a more honest level, even many years after together, including bringing some old ghosts back the fact. A triumph of subtlety, decency and into the light. unflinching observation, The Cut Out Girl is a It is a story rich with contradictions. There is triumphant marriage of many keys of writing, great bravery and generosity--first Lientje’s parents, ultimately blending them into an extraordinary giving up their beloved daughter, and then the new harmony, and a deeper truth. Dutch families who face great danger from the

BART VAN ES is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College. He is the author of Spenser’s Forms of History, Shakespeare in Company, and Shakespeare’s Comedies. He was born in the Netherlands and now lives with his family in England. A LIFE OF MY OWN CLAIRE TOMALIN

isbn: 9780399562914 price: $27.00 on sale: 8/21/2018 A LIFE OF MY OWN CLAIRE TOMALIN

Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin’s stunning memoir of a life in literature

In A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer career soared when she later moved to the Sunday of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Times, and she tells with dazzling candor of this Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday time in her life spent working alongside the literary Times reflects on a remarkable life surrounded lights of 1970s London. But, the pain of her young by writers and books. From discovering books as daughter’s suicide and the challenges of caring for a form of escapism during her parents’ difficult her disabled son as a single mother test Claire’s divorce, to pursuing poetry at Cambridge, where strength and persistence. It is not until later in life she meets and marries Nicholas Tomalin, the that she is able to return to what gave her such ambitious and striving journalist, Tomalin always purpose decades ago, writing biographies, and finds steered herself towards a passionate involvement enduring love with her now-husband, playwright with art. She relives the glittering London literary Michael Frayn. scene of the 1960s, during which Tomalin endured Marked by honesty, humility, and grace, her husband’s constant philandering and numerous rendered in the most elegant of prose, A Life of affairs, and revisits the satisfaction of being My Own is a portrait of a life, replete with joy and commissioned to write her first book, a biography heartbreak. With quiet insight and unsparing of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. In clarity, Tomalin writes autobiography at its biography, she found her vocation. However, when most luminous, delivering an astonishing and Nick is killed in 1973 while reporting in Israel, the emotionally-taut masterpiece distinguished by the mother of four put aside her writing to assume the deep and hard-won wisdom of devastating loss but position of literary editor of the New Statesman. Her even more extraordinary love.

CLAIRE TOMALIN is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.