Radiance of Tomorrow A Novel Ishmael Beah

A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone

When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, FICTION two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin Sarah Crichton Books | 1/7/2014 to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking 9780374246020 | $25.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 256 pages up their former posts as teachers, but they’re beset by obstacles: a scarcity of Carton Qty: 12 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town’s water supply and Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a Dram.: Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. way to restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. MARKETING With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the l Author Tour: New York; Philadelphia; most to us, even in uncertain times. Washington, D.C.; Boston; Chicago; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Seattle; Portland; Atlanta; St. Louis; Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He came to the United States when he was Minneapolis; Miami; Austin seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a UNICEF Ambassador and l National Publicity Advocate for Children Affected by War; a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s l National Advertising Rights Advisory Committee; a visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution l Web Marketing Campaign at Columbia University; a cofounder of the Network of Young People Affected by War l BEA Promotion (NYPAW); and the president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He has spoken before the United l Reading... Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many panels on the effects of war on children. He lives in New York. ALSO AVAILABLE

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier PRAISE 8/2008 | 9780374531263 Paperback / softback | $13.00 Praise for A Long Way Gone

“Everyone in the world should read this book. Not just because it contains an amazing story, or because it’s our moral, bleeding­heart duty, or because it’s clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and about what it means to be human.” —The Washington Post

2 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | JANUARY 2014 Flappers Six Women of a Dangerous Generation Judith Mackrell

A new look at the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity

Glamorized, mythologized, and demonized, the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Judith Mackrell’s Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation explores the ethos of that restless generation, starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion before World War I and continuing to the Wall Street crash of 1929, discovering what exemplified the range and daring of the flapper spirit. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY We meet Lady Diana Cooper, whose coterie included some of the most influential intellectuals and aristocrats of the time; Nancy Cunard, the Sarah Crichton Books | 1/14/2014 steamship heiress; Tallulah Bankhead, the politically outspoken actress; Zelda 9780374156084 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 480 pages Fitzgerald, whose tumultuous relationship with F. Scott was often tabloid 8 Pages of Black­and­White fodder; Josephine Baker, the African American dancer, singer, and actress who Illustrations/Notes/Bibliography/Index | Carton relinquished her citizenship and moved to France; and Tamara de Lempicka, Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H the Polish­born art deco painter. These women were far from typical flappers— they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of Brit., trans., dram.: Macmillan U.K. 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books their age. Talented, reckless, and willful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they rewrote their destinies in remarkable, MARKETING entertaining, and tragic ways. Nearly a century later, their stories continue to fascinate as we grapple with

l National Publicity the contradictions they faced and match ourselves against the reach of their l National Advertising desires.

Judith Mackrell has been one of Britain’s leading dance critics since 1986, writing first for The Independent and currently for The Guardian. She broadcasts regularly on TV and radio and has written several critically acclaimed books on dance. Her first biography, Bloomsbury Ballerina, a portrait of the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, was published 2008 and was short­listed for the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London with her family.

3 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | JANUARY 2014 Apple Tree Yard A Novel Louise Doughty

An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications

Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin­striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient chapel, and began to undress her. As the barrister’s voice grows low and sinuous, Yvonne realizes she’s lost herself and the life she’d built so FICTION carefully to a man who never existed at all. After their first liaison, Yvonne’s lover tells her very little about himself, but Sarah Crichton Books | 1/14/2014 she comes to suspect his secrecy has an explanation connected with the 9780374105679 | $26.00 British government. So thrilled and absorbed is she in her newfound sexual Hardback | 336 pages power that she fails to notice the real danger about to blindside her from a Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H seemingly innocuous angle. Then, reeling from an act of violence, Yvonne

Brit.: Faber and Faber U.K. discovers that her desire for justice and revenge has already been Trans., dram.: Antony Harwood Literary Agency compromised. Everything hinges on one night in a dark little Ltd. alley called Apple Tree Yard. 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books Suspenseful, erotically charged, and masterfully paced, Louise Doughty’s Apple Tree Yard is an intelligent psychological thriller about desire and its MARKETING consequences by a writer of phenomenal gifts.

l National Publicity Louise Doughty’s novel Whatever You Love was short­listed for the Costa Book Award and l National Advertising nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is the author of several other novels and a l Reading Group Guide book of nonfiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She l Advance Reader’s Edition also writes plays and journalism and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4. Doughty lives in London.

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“There can’t be a woman alive who hasn’t once realized, in a moment of panic, that she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty, more surefooted with each novel, leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely written book.” —Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodie...

4 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | JANUARY 2014 Why I Read The Serious Pleasure of Books Wendy Lesser

An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups

“Wendy Lesser’s extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America’s most significant cultural critics,” writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through literature. As Lesser writes in her foreword, “Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or LITERARY CRITICISM contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1/7/2014 Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is 9780374289201 | $25.00 / $29.00 Can. broad­minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, Hardback | 240 pages and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. As she Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Brit., audio: FSG examines these works from such perspectives as “Character and Plot,” Trans., 1st ser., dram.: Watkins/Loomis Agency, “Novelty,” “Grandeur and Intimacy,” and “Authority,” Why I Read sparks Inc. an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading. A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Elizabeth Hardwick’s A MARKETING View of My Own, Why I Read is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already avid readers as well as neophytes in search l Author Appearances: San Francisco, Los of sheer literary fun. Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, San Antonio Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review, which Adam l National Publicity l National Advertising Zagajewski has called “one of the most original literary magazines not only in the U.S. but also l Reading Group Guide on the entire planet.” She is the author of eight previous books of nonfiction and one novel. Her most recent book is the prizewinning Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen String Quartets. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. She divides her time between Berkeley, California, and New York City.

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“[Lesser] has the gift of enabling the reader to grasp the deeper workings of art forms, both high and low, in the act of describing how they affect her.” —The New York Times Book Review

5 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | JANUARY 2014 Stranger in My Own Country A Jewish Family in Modern Germany Yascha Mounk

A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man’s formative years in a country still struggling with its past

As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti­Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country’s past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating. HISTORY Vivid and fascinating, Stranger in My Own Country traces the contours of Jewish life in a country still struggling with the legacy of the Third Reich

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1/7/2014 and portrays those who, inevitably, continue to live in its shadow. Marshaling 9780374157531 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. an extraordinary range of material into a lively narrative, Mounk surveys his Hardback | 272 pages countrymen’s responses to “the Jewish question.” Examining history, the story Notes | Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H of his family, and his own childhood, he shows that anti­Semitism and far­right

Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG extremism have long coexisted with self­conscious philo­Semitism. Dram.: The Susan Rabiner Literary Agency, Inc. But of late a new kind of resentment against Jews has come out in the open. Unnoticed by much of the outside world, the desire for a “finish line” that MARKETING would spell a definitive end to the country’s obsession with the past is feeding an emphasis on German victimhood. Mounk shows how, from the government’s

l National Publicity pursuit of a less “apologetic” foreign policy to the way the country’s idea of the l National Advertising “Volk” makes life difficult for its immigrant communities, a troubled nationalism l Web Marketing Campaign is shaping Germany’s future.

Yascha Mounk is a PhD candidate in political thought in the Department of Government at Harvard and the founding editor of The Utopian. He frequently writes for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Slate, and Die Zeit.

6 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | JANUARY 2014 Jacket Cover The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948­2013 Derek Walcott; Edited by Glyn Maxwell

A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career

“He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” To Joseph Brodsky’s words of praise, one might add the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant; the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now, The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013 draws from every stage of his POETRY storied career. Here is his very earliest work—“In My Eighteenth Year,” published when he was eighteen; his first widely celebrated verses—“A Far Cry Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1/21/2014 from Africa,” which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one’s very blood; 9780374125615 | $40.00 / $46.00 Can. Hardback | 624 pages his mature work—“The Schooner Flight” from The Star­Apple Kingdom; and his Index of Titles and First Lines | Carton Qty: 0 | late masterpieces—the tenderness of “Sixty Years After” from the 2010 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H collection White Egrets. Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG Across sixty­five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the MARKETING painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, l Poetry Advertising Campaign celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one’s own memory. This collection, edited by the celebrated English poet Glyn ALSO AVAILABLE Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions and passions that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century. Moon­Child: A Play 6/2012 | 9780374533397 Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of fourteen collections of Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. White Egrets: Poems poetry, numerous plays, and a book of essays. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. 3/2011 | 9780374532703 Glyn Maxwell was born in Welwyn Garden City, England. He is the author of several Paperback / softback | $13.00 / $15.00 Can. collections of poems, has staged several plays in London and New York, and was the poetry editor of The New Republic from 2001 to 2007. He lives in London.

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“No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language or in the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds . . . [His poetry] makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us.” —The New York Times Book Rev...

7 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | JANUARY 2014 Danubia A Personal History of Habsburg Europe Simon Winder

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania

From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder’s vivid third book, Danubia. Winder’s approach is friendly, witty, personal; this is a narrative that, while erudite and well researched, prefers to be discursive and anecdotal. Beginning his travels in Hungary, Winder winds his way to the town of Brixen in a HISTORY German­speaking region of Italy and visits a museum whose modest claim to fame is its elaborate sequence of crib scenes. He reflects on the tiresome Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1/21/2014 tradition which dictated that Charles the Bold’s daughter would be known as 9780374175290 | $30.00 Hardback | 560 pages “Mary the Rich”; meditates on the striking number of characters in the nostalgic 17 Black­and­White Illustrations/5 post­1918 novels set in Habsburg Hungary who are casually armed with guns; Maps/Bibliography/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | and marvels at the Guinea Pig Village at the Budapest Zoo, “a work of extreme 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H satirical savagery” that features a European town inhabited by guinea pigs. In his survey of the centuries of often incompetent Hapsburg rule that have Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: The Wylie Agency continued to shape the fate of Central Europe, Winder does not shy away from the horrors, railing against the effects of nationalism, recounting the violence MARKETING that was often part of life. But this is a history dominated above all by Winder’s energy and curiosity. Eminently readable and thrillingly informative, Danubia is

l National Publicity a treat that readers will be eager to dip into. l National Advertising Simon Winder is the author of two books: the Sunday Times (London) Top Ten Bestseller Germania and the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain. He is an editor at Penguin Press ALSO AVAILABLE U.K. and lives in Wandsworth Town, London.

Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History PRAISE 3/2011 | 9780312680688 Paperback / softback | $18.00 Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans Praise for Simon Winder and Their History 3/2010 | 9781429945417 “Winder is an entertaining writer, and an erudite one.” —Ian Brunskill, The Wall Electronic book text | $9.99 Street Journal

8 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | JANUARY 2014 Jacket Cover The Tastemaker Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America Edward White

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era

New York City in the early twentieth century was a hotbed of vice and creativity, and the critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten was at the center of it all. The Tastemaker explores the many lives of the era’s most influential cultural impresario: the critic who brought Gertrude Stein to the nation’s attention; the patron of the Harlem Renaissance; the photographer who BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY captured the age’s icons; and the novelist who created some of the Jazz Age’s most salacious stories. A confidant of Langston Hughes and F. Scott

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/18/2014 Fitzgerald, Van Vechten frolicked with the 1920s New York demimonde, finding 9780374201579 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. himself in Harlem jazz clubs, Hell’s Kitchen speakeasies, and the Greenwich Hardback | 384 pages Village underground gay scene. 38 Black­and­White Illustrations/Notes/Bibliography/Index | Carton Edward White’s revealing biography depicts a controversial figure who Qty: 20 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H defined an age. Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the MARKETING Harlem Renaissance who believed in racial difference. The first full biography of this great American original in nearly half a century, The Tastemaker l National Publicity encompasses its subject’s private fears and longings as well as raucous l National Advertising parties fueled by booze and lust. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste helped make America fully modern.

Edward White studied European and American history at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Goldsmiths College, London. Since 2005 he has worked in the British television industry, including two years at the BBC, devising programs in its art and history department. He is a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. This is his first book. White lives in London, England.

9 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Decoded A Novel Mai Jia; Translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne

One of China’s bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking

In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top­secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is BOOKS forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701. As

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/11/2014 China’s greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers that the mastermind behind the 9780374135805 | $26.00 maddeningly difficult Purple Code is his former teacher and best friend, who is Hardback | 320 pages now working for China’s enemy—but this is only the first of many betrayals. Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H Brilliantly combining the mystery and tension of a spy thriller with the

Brit., trans., dram.: Penguin U.K. psychological nuance of an intimate character study and the magical qualities 1st ser., audio: FSG of a Chinese fable, Decoded discovers in cryptography the key to the human heart. Both a riveting mystery and a metaphysical examination of the mind of MARKETING an inspired genius, it is the first novel to be published in English by one of China’s greatest and most popular contemporary writers.

l National Publicity l National Advertising Mai Jia, who spent many years in the Chinese intelligence services, is one of China’s most l Web Marketing Campaign famous bestselling writers. He is the author of four novels, three of which have been turned l Advance Reader’s Edition into television series and films. Mai Jia has won almost every major book prize in China, including the highest literary honor, the Mao Dun Literature Prize.

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“When I say that [Decoded] is excellent, I am referring both to its remarkable literary qualities and to the fact that it demands to be read in a single sitting.” —Alai, Mao Dun Literature Prize–winning author of Red Poppies

“What stands revealed at the end [of Decoded] is not a military code but the secrets of human existence.” —China Rea...

10 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Marshlands A Novel Matthew Olshan

“A first novel of considerable maturity: powerful, original, cunningly constructed, and timely.” —Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending

After years alone in a cell, an aging prisoner is released without explanation, expelled into a great city now utterly unfamiliar to him. Broken by years of brutality at the hands of the prison guards, he scrounges for scraps, sleeping wild, until a museum curator rescues him from an assault. The museum has just opened its most controversial exhibit: a perfect replica of the marshes, an expansive wilderness still wracked by conflict. There the man had spent years as a doctor among the hated and feared marshmen, who have been colonized FICTION but never conquered.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 Then Marshlands reveals one of its many surprises: it is written in reverse. 9780374199395 | $23.00 / $26.50 Can. The novel leaps backward once, twice, returning to the marshes and unraveling Hardback | 176 pages time to reveal the doctor’s ambiguous relationship to the austerely beautiful Carton Qty: 44 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H land and its people. As the pieces of his past come together, a great crime and

Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG its consequences begin to take shape. The true nature of the crime and who Dram.: The Gernert Company committed it will be saved for the breathtaking ending—or, rather, for the beginning. MARKETING In the tradition of Wilfred Thesiger’s The Marsh Arabs and J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, Marshlands explores a culture virtually snuffed out

l National Publicity under Saddam Hussein, and how we cement our identities by pointing at l National Advertising someone to call “other.” Elegant, brief, and searing, Matthew Olshan’s Marshlands shivers with the life of a fragile, lost world.

Matthew Olshan is the author of The Flown Sky, a fantasy for young readers, and Finn, a novel for young adults. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

11 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 The Queen's Bed An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court Anna Whitelock

From the private world of a beloved queen, a story of intimacy, espionage, rumor, and subterfuge

Queen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen’s court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the favored women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels, and shared her bed. Elizabeth’s private life was of public concern. Her bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body beneath the makeup and raiment, as well as to BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY rumored dalliances with such figures as Earl Robert Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of Sarah Crichton Books | 2/11/2014 assassination plots and other Catholic stratagems. Such was the significance 9780374239787 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 480 pages of the queen’s body: it represented the very state itself. 8 Pages of Color Illustrations/Notes/Index | In The Queen’s Bed, the historian Anna Whitelock offers a revealing look at Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H the Elizabethan court and the politics of intimacy. She dramatically reconstructs, for the first time, the queen’s quarters and the women who Brit., trans., dram: The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency patrolled them. It is a story of sex, gossip, conspiracy, and intrigue brought to 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books life amid the colors, textures, smells, and routines of the court. MARKETING The women who attended the queen held the truth about her health, chastity, and fertility. They were her friends, confidantes, and spies—nobody knew her better. And until now, historians have overlooked them. The Queen’s l National Publicity l National Advertising Bed is a revelatory, insightful look into their daily lives—the untold story of the queen laid bare.

Anna Whitelock received her PhD in history from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 2004 with a thesis on the court of Mary I. Her articles and book reviews on various aspects of Tudor history have appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and BBC History. She has taught at Cambridge University and is now a lecturer in early modern history and the director of public history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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“Anna Whitelock’s skilful and detailed history will bring you closer than seems possible to this glittering, infuriating, fascinating woman.” —Hilary Mantel

12 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | FEBRUARY 2014 Strange Bodies A Novel Marcel Theroux

A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North

Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.

In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of FICTION Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. With echoes of both Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick, Marcel Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 Theroux’s Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey 9780374270650 | $26.00 Hardback | 352 pages that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H human.

Brit., trans.: Faber and Faber Ltd U.K. Marcel Theroux is the author of several novels, including Far North, which was a finalist for 1st ser., audio: FSG the National Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. He lives in Dram.: Curtis Brown London, where he also works as a documentary filmmaker and television presenter.

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l National Publicity l National Advertising “Strange Bodies is an examination of contemporary consciousness. But from l FSG First Look Program its robust hook, through its comic set­up, to its dark if hopeful conclusions, it is also a kindly, intelligently entertaining thriller.” —M. John Harrison, The Times Literary Supplement ALSO AVAILABLE “A superb technological fantasy . . . Brilliantly imagined . . . Wonderful.” —T... Far North: A Novel 6/2010 | 9780312429720 Paperback / softback | $15.00 Far North: A Novel 6/2009 | 9781429959025 Electronic book text | $9.99

13 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Now I Know Who My Comrades Are Voices of the Internet Underground Emily Parker

An incisive look at the next major battlegrounds between dissidents and oppressive regimes

In China, a blogger is an Internet censor by day and a government critic by night. In Cuba, the authorities try to silence a critic by planting seeds of distrust in her marriage. In Siberia, a blogger is arrested after he uses his online fame to launch an international protest. POLITICAL SCIENCE Ordinary citizens like these took down the governments of Egypt and Tunisia. Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, Sarah Crichton Books | 2/18/2014 but in the age of Twitter and Facebook, this is impossible—social media has 9780374176952 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 320 pages helped people overcome feelings of powerlessness. New technologies have Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | given rise to a new kind of citizen. As one blogger put it: “Now I know who my 8.250 in H comrades are.” In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, Emily Parker, a State Department Brit., 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books policymaker with years of on­the­ground experience, tells the stories of Trans., dram.: Mel Parker Books dissidents from each nation. Chinese surveillance is sleek and invisible, while a MARKETING Cuban Internet dissident might find a security agent sitting at the next table in a café. The Russian Internet is largely uncensored, yet bloggers who cross the line risk beatings, even death. l Author Appearances l National Publicity In all three countries, growing communities expose injustices, threatening l National Advertising governments that use fear as a tool of repression. These regimes now have a l Web Marketing Campaign choice: become more open and accountable or fall victim to turmoil and instability. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are is a testament to the power of community in uncertain times.

Emily Parker is the digital diplomacy adviser and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where she is writing a book about the Internet and democracy. Previously, she was a member of Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning staff at the State Department, where Parker covered twenty­first­century statecraft, innovation, and technology. Before joining the State Department, she was an op­ed editor at The New York Times and an editorial writer and op­ed editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written more than 120 editorials and op­eds for the Journal, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and Project Syndicate.

14 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | FEBRUARY 2014 Genesis Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict John B. Judis

A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and Israel

There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In Genesis, John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal power outside the region since the end of World War II and HISTORY as such must account for its repeated failed efforts to resolve this enduring strife.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 The fatal flaw in American policy, Judis shows, can be traced back to the 9780374161095 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. Truman years. What happened between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Hardback | 432 pages Middle East for the remainder of the century. As a result, understanding that 8 Pages of Black­and­White Illustrations/3 Maps/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 12 | 6.000 in period holds the key to explaining almost everything that follows—right down to W | 9.000 in H George W. Bush’s unsuccessful and ill­conceived effort to win peace through holding elections among the Palestinians, and Barack Obama’s failed attempt Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: The Sagalyn Literary to bring both parties to the negotiating table. A provocative narrative history Agency animated by a strong analytical and moral perspective, and peopled by colorful Audio: FSG and outsized personalities, Genesis offers a fresh look at these critical postwar MARKETING years, arguing that if we can understand how this stalemate originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.

l National Publicity John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic and has also written for GQ, Foreign l National Advertising Affairs, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of The Folly of Empire and The Emerging Democratic Majority, among other books.

15 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Down to the Crossroads Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear Aram Goudsouzian

The engrossing story of a march that became the key turning point in the history of the civil rights movement

On June 5, 1966, the civil rights hero James Meredith left Memphis, Tennessee, on foot. Setting off toward Jackson, Mississippi, he hoped his march would promote black voter registration and defy racism. The next day, he was shot by a mysterious white man and transferred to a hospital. What followed was one of the key dramas of the civil rights era. When the leading HISTORY figures of the civil rights movement flew to Mississippi to carry on Meredith’s effort, they found themselves confronting Southern law enforcement officials,

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 local activists, and one another. In the subsequent three weeks, Martin Luther 9780374192204 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. King Jr. narrowly escaped a mob attack, protesters were teargassed by state Hardback | 400 pages police, Lyndon Johnson refused federal intervention, and the young charismatic 8 Pages of Black­and­White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | activist Stokely Carmichael first led the chant that would define the next phase 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H of the civil rights era: Black Power. Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG Aram Goudsouzian’s Down to the Crossroads is the story of the last great Dram.: Frances Goldin Literary Agency march of the civil rights era and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed. Tracking rural demonstrators’ courage and impassioned debates MARKETING among movement leaders, Goudsouzian reveals the complex legacy of an event that would both integrate African Americans into the political system and l National Publicity inspire an era of bolder protests against it. Full of drama and historical l National Advertising resonance, this book is civil rights history at its best.

Aram Goudsouzian is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. He grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, and earned his BA from Colby College and his PhD from Purdue University. He is the author of King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution, The Hurricane of 1938, and Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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16 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 More Than Conquerors A Memoir of Lost Arguments Megan Hustad

Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in a post­Christian America

When Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross­cultural journey in the name of evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought the Gospel to the Caribbean island of Bonaire and later to the outskirts of Amsterdam. After a decade away, they returned to the States only to find themselves more alien than before. The evangelical landscape had transformed from the idealistic, market­averse movement it was in the 1970s to one where media­savvy pastors held sway over mega­churches. As the family struggled with the economic and spiritual BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY aftermath of their break from middle­class Middle America, Megan and her sister, Amy, began to plot their escape. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/11/2014 Megan sets her sights on New York City, where everything she was denied 9780374298838 | $25.00 / $29.00 Can. Hardback | 240 pages as a child would be at her fingertips, and Amy makes her home among the 2 Black­and­White Illustrations | Carton Qty: 24 intellectual swagger of New Englanders. But fitting in proves harder than they’d | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H imagined. As much as Megan tries to shake them, thoughts of the God she was ignoring follow her into every party and relationship. Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG In More Than Conquerors, Hustad explores what happens when the habits Trans., dram.: Trident Media Group of your religion coincide with the demands of your social class, and what MARKETING breaks when they conflict. With a sharp tongue and deep insight, Hustad offers a vivid account of the cultural divisions, anxieties, and resentments that continue to divide our country and her own family. l National Publicity l National Advertising l Web Marketing Campaign Megan Hustad has written articles, essays, and commentary for The New York Times, New York Post, Salon, Slate, The Big Money, The Daily Beast, The Awl, and American Public Media’s Marketplace, and is the author of How to Be Useful. She has lived in Minneapolis, London, the Caribbean, and Amsterdam, and currently lives and works in New York City.

17 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 In the Light of What We Know A Novel Zia Haider Rahman

An arresting debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century

A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century

An investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, FICTION the banker recognizes a long­lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/22/2014 has resurfaced with a confession of unsettling power. 9780374175627 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 576 pages

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Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: The Wylie Zia Haider Rahman takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope, ranging over Agency Kabul, London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, Princeton, and Sylhet, and dealing with love, belonging, finance, cognitive science, and war. Its framework MARKETING is an age­old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other, both of them desperate in their different ways to climb clear of their l National Publicity wrong beginnings. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds l National Advertising of economic recession, the novel chronicles the lives of people carrying l Advance Reader’s Edition unshakable legacies of class, culture, and faith as they struggle to tame their futures.

In the Light of What We Know is by turns tender, intimate, and panoramic, telescoping the great upheavals of our young century into a first novel of rare ambition and profundity.

Born in rural Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich, and Yale Universities. He has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human rights lawyer.

18 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 On Earth as It Is in Heaven A Novel Davide Enia; Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

A dark, gripping coming­of­age tale that explores violence, friendship, family, and what it means to be a man

Palermo, the early 1990s. Mafia gang wars are tearing a precariously stitched­ together city apart. A fatherless nine­year­old boy climbs into a boxing ring to face his first opponent. So begins On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a sweeping multigenerational saga that reaches back to the collapse of the Italian front in North Africa and forward to young Davidù’s quest to become Italy’s heavyweight boxing champion, a feat FICTION that has eluded the other men of his family. But Davide Enia, whose daring, lyrical novel caused a sensation when it Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/11/2014 was published in Italy in 2012, has crafted an epic that soars in miniature as 9780374130046 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 352 pages well. The brutal struggles for dominance among Davidù’s circle of all­male Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H friends; his strict but sympathetic grandmother, whose literacy is a badge of Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG honor; his charismatic and manipulative uncle, who will become his trainer—the Trans., dram.: Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore vicious scenes and sometimes unsympathetic characters Enia has crafted land hard and true. MARKETING This is a novel that is both firmly grounded in what Leonardo Sciascia described as Sicilitude—the language and mentality of that eternally perplexing l National Advertising island—and devastatingly universal. A meditation on physical violence, love and friendship, boxing, betrayal, sex, ambition, and, above all, masculinity in all its various guises, Enia’s work comes vividly to life in the sharp, seductive translation of Antony Shugaar.

Davide Enia was born in 1974 in Palermo, where he now lives and cooks. He has written, directed, and performed in plays for the stage and the radio. This is his first novel. Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator. He is the author of Coast to Coast and I Lie for a Living and the coauthor, with the late Gianni Guadalupi, of Discovering America and Latitude Zero.

19 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 Mount Terminus A Novel David Grand

A dark, majestic novel about art, family, overwhelming love, and the birth of Los Angeles

After his mother’s death, young Bloom boards a train with his bereaved father, Jacob, to travel west across mountains and deserts to California: Mount Terminus, their new home at the desolate end of the world. In a villa built atop a rare desert spring, they live apart from society, supported by the income from Jacob’s invention, the Rosenbloom Loop, a piece of technology that has revolutionized the nascent art of filmmaking. There Bloom grows up in the shadow of his father’s grief with only a pair of servants, the house’s ghosts, and FICTION his own artistic muse for company. But Jacob can’t protect his family from his past forever—the dramatic series Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/4/2014 of events that has taken him from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on the Lower 9780374280888 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. East Side of New York and into the graces of beautiful twin girls to this fragile Hardback | 384 pages refuge in pre­Hollywood Los Angeles. And Bloom, now an eccentric, dark Carton Qty: 12 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: The Wylie genius, can’t live alone at the top of the mountain forever. Prodded by his newly Agency discovered half brother, in every way his opposite, Bloom will have to come down to meet the world. The orange farmers and the vaqueros, the speculators and the developers, the artists and the barons of the silver screen, will surely MARKETING come up the mountain to meet him. Eleven years in the making, Mount Terminus marks a triumphant return for l Author Appearances: New York, Los David Grand; it’s the novel he was born to write. Angeles l National Publicity David Grand is the author of Louse and The Disappearing Body. He lives in Brooklyn with his l National Advertising l Advance Reader’s Edition wife and twin sons.

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20 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 Caribou Poems Charles Wright

A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets

This is an old man’s poetry, written by someone who’s spent his life Looking for one truth. Sorry, pal, there isn’t one. —from “Ancient of Days”

Charles Wright’s truth—the truth of nature, of man’s yearning for the divine, of POETRY aging—is at the heart of the renowned poet’s latest collection, Caribou. At once an elegy to simple beauty (a sunset the same color as the maple tree in Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/18/2014 his neighbor’s yard, “Nature and nature head­butt”) and an expression of 9780374119027 | $23.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 96 pages Wright’s restless questing for a reality beyond the one before our eyes Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H (“Between the divine and the divine / lives a lavish shadow. / Do we avoid it or stand in it? / Do we gather the darkness around us, / or do we let it slide by?”), Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG Caribou’s strength is in its quiet, subtle profundity. “It’s good to be here,” Wright tells us. “It’s good to be where the world’s MARKETING quiescent, and reminiscent.” And to be here—in the pages of this stirring collection—is more than good; it’s another remarkable gift from the poet around l Poetry Advertising Campaign whose influence “the whole world seems to orbit in a kind of meditative, slow circle” (Poetry). ALSO AVAILABLE Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bye­and­Bye: Selected Late Poems National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Bollingen Prize for American 3/2012 | 9780374533175 Poetry, lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Paperback / softback | $20.00 / $23.00 Can. Bye­and­Bye: Selected Late Poems 4/2011 | 9780374117580 PRAISE Hardback | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. “Inside [Wright’s] lyric, there resides a world well beyond the ordinary . . . It is the heart and soul that he delivers so eloquently.” —Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times

21 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots Ian Morris

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better

“War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing,” says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For? the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian HISTORY Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/15/2014 behind the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the 9780374286002 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one­in­ten Hardback | 448 pages or even one­in­five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by Black­and­White Illustrations/Maps/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H contrast—despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—fewer than one person in a hundred died violently. The explanation: war, and war alone, Brit., trans., dram.: Sandra Dijkstra Literary has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have Agency stamped out internal violence. Strangely enough, killing has made the world 1st ser., audio: FSG safer, and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer too. MARKETING War has been history’s greatest paradox, but this searching study of fifteen centuries of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the l Author Appearances: West Coast; most dangerous of all time. If we can survive it, the age­old dream of ending war Chicago; Washington, D.C.; New York City; Dallas; Kansas City; Boston; may yet come to pass. But, Morris argues, only if we understand what war has including Global Affairs Councils been good for can we know where it will take us next. l National Publicity l National Advertising Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and History at Stanford l Web Marketing Campaign University and the author of the critically acclaimed Why the West Rules—for Now. He has l Advance Reader’s Edition published ten scholarly books and has directed excavations in Greece and Italy. He lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. ALSO AVAILABLE

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22 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover The Orchard of Lost Souls A Novel Nadifa Mohamed

From one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia’s tragic civil war

It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine­year­old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp where she was born, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. FICTION Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/4/2014 As the country is unraveled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates 9780374209148 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. of these three women are twisted irrevocably together. Hardback | 352 pages Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa and was exiled before the outbreak Carton Qty: 12 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H of war. In The Orchard of Lost Souls, she returns to Hargeisa in her

Brit., trans., dram.: Fox Mason imagination. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, this novel is 1st ser., audio: FSG an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.

MARKETING Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981. In 1986 her family temporarily relocated to London; this move became permanent with the eruption of the Somali Civil War. She was educated in London and went to Oxford to study history and politics. She finally returned to l Select Author Appearances: New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hargeisa, now in the new Republic of Somaliland, in 2008. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, Seattle, Portland, possible PEN Festival won the Betty Trask Prize, was long­listed for the Orange Prize, and was short­listed for the Appearance Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the l National Publicity PEN Open Book Award. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British l National Advertising Novelists. l FSG First Look Program

23 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 Overwhelmed Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time Brigid Schulte

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?

According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we’re doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”? SOCIAL SCIENCE Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: “How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling Sarah Crichton Books | 3/11/2014 in leisure—over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had 9780374228446 | $26.00 Hardback | 384 pages downtime? Was there anything useful in their research—anything we could Appendix/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 do?” in W | 9.000 in H Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to Brit.: Bloomsbury U.K. shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to Trans., dram.: Ross/Yoon Agency 1st ser., audio: Sarah Crichton Books neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking MARKETING insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of

l Author Appearances: Washington, D.C.; how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, child care, and Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out. l National Publicity l National Advertising Brigid Schulte is an award­winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington l Web Marketing Campaign l Reading Group Guide Post Magazine. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their two children.

24 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | MARCH 2014 Lost and Found in Johannesburg A Memoir Mark Gevisser

An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author’s fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions

This singular memoir begins with a transgression—the invasion of a private home in Johannesburg. But it is far more than the story of a theft. Lost and Found in Johannesburg is a luminous exploration of place, one in which the author’s and the reader’s assumptions are constantly being tested. As a child growing up in apartheid South Africa, Mark Gevisser was obsessed with maps—and with Holmden’s Register, Johannesburg’s street BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY guide, in particular. He played a game called Dispatcher with this eccentric guide, transporting himself across the city into places that would otherwise be Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/15/2014 forbidden to him. It was through Dispatcher that he discovered apartheid by 9780374176761 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. Hardback | 352 pages realizing that he could not find an access route to the neighboring township of 73 Black­and­White Illustrations/Endpaper Maps Alexandra and, later, by realizing that Soweto was not mapped at all. This was | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H the beginning of his lifelong obsession with maps and photographs, and what Brit., trans., dram.: David Godwin Associates they tell us about borders and boundaries—how we define ourselves by staying (U.K.) 1st ser., audio: FSG within them or by transgressing them. This memoir is an account of getting lost in one’s hometown, and then finding oneself as a gay Jewish South African who MARKETING was raised under apartheid and who eventually married a man of a different race as the country moved toward freedom.

l Select Author Appearances: New York; Using maps, shards of memory, photographs, and stories, Gevisser Washington, D.C. constructs a stunning portrait of race and sexuality, heritage and otherness. l National Publicity l National Advertising Mark Gevisser is the author of the prizewinning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South ALSO AVAILABLE Africa. He is the coeditor of Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and other A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the publications. He is the writer of the documentary film The Man Who Drove with Mandela, Future of the South African Dream which won the Teddy Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Born in Johannesburg in 6/2010 | 9780230619999 1964, he now lives in France. Paperback / softback | $20.00 / $24.00 Can. A Legacy of Liberation 3/2009 | 9780230620209 PRAISE Electronic book text | $9.99 / $10.99 Can. Praise for A Legacy of Liberation

“Probably the finest piece of non­fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid.” —The Times Literary Supplement

25 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Can't and Won't Stories Lydia Davis

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America”

Her stories may be literal one­liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of thirty­two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert’s correspondence; or they may be inspired by FICTION the author’s own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can’t and Won’t, Lydia Davis’s fifth Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/8/2014 collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply 9780374118587 | $23.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 192 pages observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: Denise Shannon mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the Literary Agency predictable patterns of daily life. Audio: FSG

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and four previous story collections, the most recent of MARKETING which, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is also the acclaimed translator of Swann’s Way (2003) and Madame Bovary (2010), both of which were awarded the French American Foundation Translation Prize. The Collected Stories of l Select Author Appearances: New York Lydia Davis, published in 2009, was described by James Wood in The New Yorker as a “grand City, Albany cumulative achievement.” She is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. l National Publicity l National Advertising l Web Marketing Campaign PRAISE

ALSO AVAILABLE “A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom.” —James Wood, The 10/2010 | 9780312655396 New Yorker Paperback / softback | $20.00 / $23.00 Can. Break It Down: Stories 9/2008 | 9780374531447 Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can.

26 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 All at Once Prose Poems C. K. Williams

Short, sharp musings on things profound and mundane (and sometimes both) from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet

C. K. Williams has never been afraid to push the boundaries of poetic form—in fact, he’s known for it, with long, narrative lines that compel, enthrall, and ensnare. In his latest work, All at Once, Williams again embodies this spirit of experimentation, carving out fresh spaces for himself and surprising his readers once more with inventions both formal and lyrical. Somewhere between prose poems, short stories, and personal essays, the musings in this collection are profound, personal, witty, and inventive— sometimes all at once. Here are the starkly beautiful images that also pepper POETRY his poems: a neighbor’s white butane tank in March “glares in the sunlight, raw and unseemly, like a breast inappropriately unclothed in the painful chill.” Here Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 are the tender, masterful sketches of characters Williams has encountered: a 9780374216429 | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 160 pages sign painter and skid­row denizen who makes an impression on the young Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H soon­to­be poet with his “terrific focus, an intensity I’d never seen in an adult Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG before.” And here are a husband’s hymns to his beloved wife, to her laughter, which “always has something keen and sweet to it, an edge of something like MARKETING song.” This is a book that provokes pathos and thought, that inspires sympathy l Poetry Advertising Campaign and contemplation. It is both fiercely representative of Williams’s work and like nothing he’s written before—a collection to be admired, celebrated, and above ALSO AVAILABLE all read again and again.

Writers Writing Dying: Poems C. K. Williams’s books of poetry include Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book 10/2012 | 9780374293321 Critics Circle Award; Repair, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and The Singing, winner Hardback | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. of the National Book Award. He was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He has Wait: Poems written a critical study, On Whitman; a memoir, Misgivings; and two books of essays, the 4/2011 | 9780374532765 most recent of which is In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest. He teaches at Princeton Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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“[Williams knows] how to make love to the page, urging the reader to go slow— which is how all poetry should be read.” —Dana Jennings, The New York Times

27 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover Hotel Florida Love and Death in Spain, 1936­ 1939 Amanda Vaill

A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War

Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with HISTORY Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of 9780374172992 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 416 pages Madrid’s loyalist foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are 16 Pages of Black­and­White struggling to balance truth­telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised Illustrations/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 cause—a struggle that places both of them in peril. in W | 9.000 in H Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it, MARKETING “You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world.” From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film, Amanda Vaill has l Select Author Appearances including New York City; Washington, D.C., created a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth: and Boston finding it out, telling it, and living it—whatever the cost. l National Publicity Amanda Vaill is the author of the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy—A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In addition to her screenplay for the Emmy– and Peabody Award–winning public television documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, she has also written features and criticism for a range of journals from Allure to The Washington Post Book World. She lives in New York City.

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28 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover Talking to Ourselves A Novel Andrés Neuman; Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices

A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices

One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. FICTION

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/8/2014 9780374167530 | $23.00 / $26.50 Can. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he Hardback | 192 pages concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H last for his son’s lifetime, takes him on a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But

Brit.: Pushkin Press Lito doesn’t know that this might be their last trip: Mario is seriously Trans.: LCS ill. Together, father and son embark on travels that take them through strange 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG georgraphies, ones that seem to unite the borders of Spanish­speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena looks for support in books, undertaking an MARKETING adventure of her own that will challenge her moral limits. The narratives of father, mother, and son each embody one of the different ways that we talk to l National Publicity ourselves: through thought, speech, and writing. While neither of them dares to l National Advertising tell the complete truth to the other two, their solitary voices nonetheless form a poignant conversation. ALSO AVAILABLE

Traveler of the Century: A Novel 4/2012 | 9780374119393 Sooner or later, we all face loss. Andrés Neuman movingly narrates the ways Hardback | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. Traveler of the Century: A Novel the lives of those who survive loss are transformed; how that experience 4/2012 | 9781466816152 changes our ideas about time, memory, and our own bodies; and how the acts Electronic book text | $9.99 / $10.99 Can. of reading, and of sex, can serve as powerful modes of resistance. Talking to Ourselves presents a tender yet unsentimental portrait of the workings of love and family; a reflection on death, sex, gri...

Andrés Neuman was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Spain. He has a degree in Spanish philology from the University of Granada. Neuman was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish­Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá­39 list. Traveler of the Century (FSG, 2012) was the winner of the Alfaguara Prize and the

29 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Off Course A Novel Michelle Huneven

From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements

It’s the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle­down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty­eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has moved to her parents’ shabby A­frame in the Sierras, hoping to finish her dissertation about art in the marketplace. Though she came seeking solitude, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the life of the small mountain community, and she’s seduced by a local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, a big, burly, immensely attractive man in his late forties. Rick Garsh, the local contractor, gives Cress a part time job. Through Rick she FICTION meets the Morrow brothers, two talented fine­finish carpenters. They are handsome, amusing, intriguing, and married. Sarah Crichton Books | 4/1/2014 As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single 9780374224479 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 304 pages woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Increasingly Carton Qty: 20 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H uninspired by her dissertation, Cress allows love, adultery, and obsession to commandeer her life, and soon she becomes the victim of her own perilous Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: The Wylie Agency reasoning. Audio: Sarah Crichton Books Michelle Huneven is one of our most searching, elegant novelists—Richard Russo has called her “a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent.” In Off MARKETING Course, she tells the cautionary tale of an intelligent young woman seeking her place in life only to discover that love is the great distraction, and impossible l Select Author Appearances: West Coast love the greatest distraction of all. l National Publicity l National Advertising l Web Marketing Campaign Michelle Huneven is the author of three previous novels—Blame, Jamesland, and Round l Reading Group Guide Rock. Her nonfiction writing includes restaurant reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Weekly, other food journalism, and, with Bernadette Murphy, The Tao Gals Guide to Real Estate. She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers and a Whiting Writers’ Award for fiction. Huneven lives in Altadena, California, with her husband, Jim Potter.

30 SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | APRIL 2014 Collected French Translations: Poetry John Ashbery; Edited by Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie

An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today

Collected French Translations: Poetry, the first volume of a long­awaited two­ volume collection of translations by America’s foremost living poet, surveys John Ashbery’s lifelong involvement with French poetry. Beginning in 1955, Ashbery spent almost a decade in France, during which time he worked as an POETRY art critic in Paris and was close to the poet Pierre Martory. His translations of Martory’s poems, collected in The Landscapist, were a Poetry Book Society Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 Recommended Translation in 2008 and a finalist for the National Book Critics 9780374258023 | $35.00 / $40.00 Can. Hardback | 576 pages Circle Award in poetry; a selection of them appears here. Other poets included Index of Titles and First Lines | Carton Qty: 0 | are Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, Paul 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H Éluard, and France’s greatest living poet, Yves Bonnefoy. The development of modern French poetry emerges through Ashbery’s chronology, as does the Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram: Georges Borchardt, depth of French influences on the poets of the New York School. Presenting Inc. Audio: FSG 171 poems by twenty­five poets, this bilingual volume also features a selection of Ashbery’s masterly translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations, published to MARKETING acclaim in 2011. Ashbery’s choices and translations of French poetry in this book offer unique insights into the wide and varied scope of French cultural

l National Advertising influences on his work over the decades of his productive and resonant career. l Poetry Advertising Campaign John Ashbery’s latest book of poems is Quick Question. From 1960 to 1965, he was the International Herald Tribune art critic and ArtNews Paris correspondent. France has ALSO AVAILABLE named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the Légion d’Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Selected Poems and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal. Rosanne Wasserman and 5/2007 | 9780374530891 Eugene Richie’s latest poetry book is Psyche and Amor. They have edited Ashbery’s essays Paperback / softback | $21.00 / $24.00 Can. Chinese Whispers: Poems in Other Traditions and in Selected Prose, as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She 9/2003 | 9780374528805 teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University. Paperback / softback | $13.00 / $13.00 Can.

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31 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Collected French Translations: Prose John Ashbery; Edited by Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie

An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today

Collected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two­ volume selection of John Ashbery’s translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery’s own prose writings and engagement with prose writers—through translations, essays, and criticism—have had a profound impact on the cultural LITERARY COLLECTIONS landscape of the past half century. This book presents his versions of, among others, the classic French fairy tale “The White Cat” by Marie­Catherine Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 d’Aulnoy, as well as works by such innovative masters as Raymond Roussel 9780374258030 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. Hardback | 432 pages and Giorgio de Chirico. Here are all of Roussel’s Documents to Serve as an Appendix/Bibliography | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 Outline and extracts from his Impressions of Africa; selections from Georges in W | 9.000 in H Bataille’s darkly erotic first novella, L’abbé C; Antonin Artaud’s correspondence with the writer Jacques Rivière; Salvador Dalí on Willem de Kooning’s art; Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram: Georges Borchardt, Jacques Dupin on Giacometti; and key theoretical and conceptual texts by Inc. Audio: FSG Odilon Redon, Jean Hélion, Iannis Xenakis, and Marcelin Pleynet. Several of these twenty­nine prose pieces, by seventeen fiction writers, playwrights, MARKETING artists, musicians, and critics, are previously unpublished or have been long unavailable. Many are modern classics, such as Pierre Reverdy’s Haunted

l National Advertising House. This book provides fresh insight into the range of French cultural influence on Ashbery’s life and work in literature and the arts.

ALSO AVAILABLE John Ashbery’s latest book of poems is Quick Question. From 1960 to 1965, he was the International Herald Tribune art critic and ArtNews Paris correspondent. France has Selected Poems named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the Légion d’Honneur. He has 5/2007 | 9780374530891 received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Paperback / softback | $21.00 / $24.00 Can. Chinese Whispers: Poems and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal. Rosanne Wasserman and 9/2003 | 9780374528805 Eugene Richie’s latest poetry book is Psyche and Amor. They have edited Ashbery’s essays Paperback / softback | $13.00 / $13.00 Can. in Other Traditions and in Selected Prose, as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University.

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32 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover This Blue Poems Maureen N. McLane

A vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee

From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it’s “another day in this here cosmos,” in Maureen N. McLane’s stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common “Terran Life,” the poet conjures urban pigeons, Adirondack mountains, Genoa, Andalucía, Belfast, Parma; here is a world sounded out, broken, possibly shareable, newly named: “Take it up Old Adam— / everyday the world exists / to be named.” This Blue POETRY is a searching and a singing—intricate, sexy, smart.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 Maureen N. McLane is the author of two collections of poetry, Same Life (FSG, 2008) and 9780374275938 | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. World Enough (FSG, 2010). Her book My Poets (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, Hardback | 112 pages was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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33 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 I Am the Beggar of the World Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan Translated by Eliza Griswold; Photographs by Seamus Murphy

An eye­opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women

Because my love’s American, blisters blossom on my heart. POETRY Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient 9780374191870 | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more Hardback | 144 pages 50 Black­and­White Illustrations | Carton Qty: 0 than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and | 6.125 in W | 8.250 in H Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love—these are the subjects of landays, Brit., trans., audio: FSG which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that 1st ser., dram.: Author c/o FSG they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the MARKETING songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, l National Publicity these are the voices of protest most at risk of being lost when the Americans l Poetry Advertising Campaign leave. After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems ALSO AVAILABLE and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the 8/2011 | 9780312569365 World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun Wideawake Field: Poems woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa. 4/2008 | 9780374531300 Paperback / softback | $13.00 / $15.00 Can. Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG, 2007) and a nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a New York Times bestseller that was awarded the Anthony J. Lukas Prize in nonfiction. She has worked with Seamus Murphy in Africa and Asia for more than a decade. She lives in New York City.

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34 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover The Road to Emmaus Poems Spencer Reece

A moving, subtle sequence of narrative poems, from a sharp new poetic voice

Two strangers walk toward Emmaus; Christ has just been crucified, and they are despondent—until a third man joins them and warms their hearts. It is only when they reach Emmaus and break bread that the pair realize they have been walking with Christ himself. The moment after they recognize him, he disappears. This is the tender story from the Gospel of Luke from which Spencer Reece has drawn the title of his mesmerizing collection—one that fearlessly confronts love and its loss, despair and its consolation, and faith in all of its various guises. POETRY Reece’s central figure in The Road to Emmaus is a man who in mid­life decides to become a priest in the Episcopal Church; these poems—in prose, Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 free verse, and metered lines—follow him to New York City, to Honduras, to a 9780374280857 | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 144 pages hospital where he works as a chaplain, to a prison, to an Alcoholics Carton Qty: 36 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Anonymous meeting. In language whose simple, lyrical beauty gradually accrues weight and momentum, Reece spins compelling dramas out of small Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG emotional moments: one friend confessing to another that he does not understand poetry; two lovers playing Scrabble; conversations on rotary phones MARKETING between two men, each aching in a different way. In Luke it is written: “and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them.” l Poetry Advertising Campaign The idea of love disappearing before our eyes haunts this speaker, the author, and this deeply, quietly, powerfully moving collection.

Spencer Reece is a poet and priest; his first collection, The Clerk’s Tale, won the Bakeless Prize in 2003. He has received an NEA grant, a Guggenheim grant, the Witter Bynner Prize from the Library Congress, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Scholar, and The New Republic. Last year, he served as the chaplain to the Bishop of Spain for the Reformed Episcopal Church, Iglesia Español Reformada Episcopal. Currently he is completing a book of prose, The Little Entrance, about his decision to become a priest in middle age.

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“Reece’s poems are at once splendidly fresh and deeply rooted in poetry’s rich loam . . . Reece’s striking debut yields new revelations with each reading.” — Booklist

35 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover Annihilation A Novel Jeff VanderMeer

If J.J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. FICTION This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a FSG Originals | 2/4/2014 psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is 9780374104092 | $13.00 to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, Paperback / softback | 208 pages scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above Carton Qty: 36 | 5.000 in W | 7.500 in H Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. Dram.: The Cooke Agency They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but MARKETING it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything. l Tour: Major markets across the three Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, books (New York City, San Francisco, Los which will be published throughout 2014: volume two (Authority) in June, and Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, volume three (Acceptance) in September. Miami, Austin, Chicago, Boston, Tampa, St. Petersburg. Maybe Milwaukee and Cincinnati), as well as Jeff VanderMeer is an award­winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated festivals (Texas, Miami, Los ... into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s­best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

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“A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unraveling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and a claustrophobic dread that linger long afterward. I loved it.” —Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

36 Paperback Original FSG ORIGINALS | FEBRUARY 2014 Quesadillas A Novel Juan Pablo Villalobos; Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey; Introduction by Neel Mukherjee

A brilliant new comic novel from “a linguistic virtuoso” (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa)

It’s the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno—a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows—and a poor family struggles to overcome FICTION the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high­school civics teacher,

FSG Originals | 2/11/2014 insists on practicing and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother 9780374533953 | $13.00 prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Paperback / softback | 192 pages Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor, and Pollux. Confined to Glossary | Carton Qty: 40 | 5.000 in W | 7.500 their home, the family bears witness to the revolt against the Institutional in H Revolutionary Party and their umpteenth electoral fraud. This political upheaval

Brit.: And Other Stories is only the beginning of Orestes’s adventures and his uproarious crusade Trans.: Anagrama against the boredom of rustic life and the tyranny of his older brother. 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG Both profoundly moving and wildly funny, Juan Pablo Villalobos’s Quesadillas is a satiric masterpiece, chock­full of inseminated cows, Polish MARKETING immigrants, religious pilgrims, alien spacecraft, psychedelic watermelons, and many, many “your mama” insults. l National Publicity l National Advertising Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973, and lives in Brazil, where l FSG Originals Preview Edition he writes for various publications and teaches courses in Spanish literature. He has written literary criticism, film criticism, and short stories. Villalobos is the author of Down the Rabbit ALSO AVAILABLE Hole (FSG, 2012), which has been translated into fifteen languages.

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“Villalobos brilliantly encapsulates the chaos of a lawless existence in which, under the sway of drug lords, anything might happen and everything goes . . . An astonishing debut.” —Lucy Popescu, The Independent

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37 Paperback Original FSG ORIGINALS | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover O Starry Starry Night A Play Derek Walcott

Two masterful artists—Gauguin and van Gogh—come alive in a vibrant exploration of friendship, art, and madness

Two painters—Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh—are living together in the sleepy town of Arles in 1888. Soon, Gauguin, frustrated by van Gogh’s refusal to acknowledge his increasingly troubled mind, will depart for Paris. In two years, van Gogh will be dead by his own hand. In the meantime, the friends discuss their craft; they frequent a local café that van Gogh will soon immortalize; they become acquainted with a young prostitute, Lotte, who becomes Gauguin’s lover; they argue; they paint. In Derek Walcott’s new play, O Starry Starry Night, two world­renowned DRAMA artists come to life as they wrestle both with grand themes—friendship, loyalty, fame—and with more mundane concerns, money primary among them. The Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/18/2014 scenes Walcott sketches summon several of van Gogh’s most famous 9780374227074 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 128 pages paintings: Sunflowers, The Night Café, The Bedroom at Arles. His manipulation Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H of language—van Gogh’s eloquent monologues giving way to more abstract Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: FSG speeches—evokes the painter’s descent into madness. Over the action hangs the threat of violence, of death, which lends the play a potent urgency; for at ALSO AVAILABLE least one of the characters, time is quickly running out. O Starry Starry Night is powerfully wrought, and demonstrates once again The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948­2013 1/2014 | 9780374125615 the sharpness of Walcott’s eye: as a painter, as a poet, as a writer, and, above Hardback | $40.00 / $46.00 Can. all, as an observer of human follies, foibles, failings, and aspirations. Moon­Child: A Play 6/2012 | 9780374533397 Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of fourteen collections of Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. poetry, numerous plays, and a book of essays. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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“Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott’s hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page.” —Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books

38 Paperback Original FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Ways of Going Home A Novel Alejandro Zambra; Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

A brilliant novel from “the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction” (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)

Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine­year­old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle­class housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first FICTION glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1/14/2014 In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the 9780374534356 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but Paperback / softback | 160 pages who quietly sympathized—to what degree, the author isn’t sure—with the Carton Qty: 48 | 5.000 in W | 7.500 in H Brit.: Granta Books U.K. Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own Trans., dram.: Anagrama (through Andrea life—which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel’s protagonist—expose the Montejo, Indent) raw suture of fiction and reality. Audio: FSG Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late—the generation which, as the author­narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.

Alejandro Zambra is a poet, novelist, and literary critic who was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1975. He is the author of two previous novels, The Private Lives of Trees and Bonsai, which was awarded a Chilean Critics Award for best novel. He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish­Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá­39 list. Megan McDowell is a literary translator living in Zurich, Switzerland. She also translated Alejandro Zambra’s The Private Lives of Trees.

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“Funny, contemplative, and quietly moving, Ways of Going Home pulls off the intoxicating trick of making the world feel smaller in its familiar touchstones found in a time of unique tragedy.”—Chris Barton, The Los Angeles Times

39 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | JANUARY 2014 The Master of Us All Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World Mary Blume

A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga

When Cristóbal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Balenciaga was, as Elsa Schiaparelli said, “the only designer who dares do what he likes.” He was, said Christian Dior, “the master of us all.” But despite his extraordinary impact, Balenciaga was a man hidden from view. One woman knew Balenciaga very well indeed. The first person he hired BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY when he opened his Paris house (at the time furnished with only a table and a stool) was Florette Chelot, who became his top vendeuse—as much an adviser Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/11/2014 as a saleswoman. 9780374534387 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 240 pages In The Master of Us All, Mary Blume tells the remarkable story of the man 8 Pages of Full­Color Illustrations/65 Black­and­ and his house through the eyes of the woman who knew him best. Intimate and White Illustrations in Text/Notes | Carton Qty: 0 revealing, this is an unprecedented portrait of a designer whose vision | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H transformed an industry but whose story has never been told—until now. Brit., trans., audio: FSG Dram.: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Mary Blume, a native New Yorker who lives in Paris, was a longtime columnist for the International Herald Tribune. She is the author of Côte d’Azur: Inventing the French Riviera and of a collection of her Herald Tribune pieces, A French Affair.

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40 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover The Rainbow Troops A Novel Andrea Hirata; Translated from the Indonesian by Angie Kilbane

From Indonesia, an inspiring, record­breaking bestseller—and a modern­day fairy tale

Published in Indonesia in 2005, The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata’s closely autobiographical debut novel, sold more than five million copies, shattering records. Now it promises to captivate audiences around the globe. Ikal is a student at the poorest village school on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered remarkable. His FICTION school is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends—a group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops—face threats from every angle: skeptical Sarah Crichton Books | 2/11/2014 government officials, greedy corporations, deepening poverty, crumbling 9780374534448 | $15.00 Paperback / softback | 304 pages infrastructure, and their own low self­confidence. Carton Qty: 28 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H But the students also have hope, which comes in the form of two Brit., trans., dram.: Anderson Literary extraordinary teachers, and Ikal’s education in and out of the classroom is an Management, Inc. uplifting one. We root for him as he defies the island’s tin mine officials. We Audio: FSG meet his first love, the unseen girl who sells chalk from behind a shop screen, MARKETING whose pretty hands capture Ikal’s heart. We cheer for Lintang, the class’s barefoot math genius, as he bests the students of the mining corporation’s school in an academic challenge. Above all, we gain an intimate acquaintance l Reading Group Guide with the customs and people of the world’s largest Muslim society. This is classic storytelling in the spirit of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner: an engrossing depiction of a milieu we have never encountered before, bursting with charm and verve.

Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian writer. He was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2010. His first novel, The Rainbow Troops (Laskar Pelangi), sold more than five million copies in Indonesia, making him the country’s bestselling writer of all time, as well as its first to enjoy truly international success: The Rainbow Troops has been published or is forthcoming in twenty­three countries and counting. Hirata has written three sequels to The Rainbow Troops: Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer), Edensor, and Maryama Karpov. He lives in Indonesia.

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"Hirata's writing is as brilliant, beautiful, remarkable, and engrossing as the characters and the world he brings us. If you've ever been afraid to dream, or disbelieved in the true power of learning, read The Rainbow Troops and you'll be

41 Now in Paperback! SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS | FEBRUARY 2014 City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / A Novel Christa Wolf; Translated from the German by Damion Searls

The stunning final novel from East Germany’s most acclaimed writer

Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty­two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what FICTION was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/18/2014 Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no 9780374534295 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 336 pages recollection of it. Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Wolf’s extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Brit., audio: FSG Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a Trans., dram.: Suhrkamp Verlag powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. ALSO AVAILABLE Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth­century history, Wolf

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and 5/1988 | 9780374519049 watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.

Christa Wolf (1921–2011) was one of the most celebrated German writers of the postwar era. A central figure in East German literature and politics, she was arguably the foremost German­German writer, awarded major literature prizes in East, West, and reunified Germany. Her most important reexaminations of the cultural past and personal memory include Cassandra, a crucial text for Western feminists and a secret social critique for her readers in the East; Patterns of Childhood, a groundbreaking reflection on growing up in Nazi Germany; and City of Angels, a sequel of sorts to Patterns of Childhood that takes place after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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“Defying superlatives and superbly translated . . . [Wolf] outdid herself.” — Booklist (starred review)

42 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 See Now Then A Novel Jamaica Kincaid

A beautifully wrought novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of My Mother

In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid— her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England—as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, “the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.” Her FICTION characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make 9780374534363 | $13.00 / $15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 192 pages unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the Carton Qty: 40 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H end. Brit., trans., dram.: The Wylie Agency Since the publication of her first short­story collection, At the Bottom of the Audio: FSG River, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of ALSO AVAILABLE things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both

Mr. Potter: A Novel familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and thematically daring 7/2003 | 9780374528744 work yet. Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Lucy: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the 9/2002 | 9780374527358 Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, and Mr. Potter, all published by FSG. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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“Writers wish for perfect readers, but readers wish even harder for perfect writers and rarely find them . . . Jamaica Kincaid is about as perfect as it’s possible to be.” —Carolyn See, The Washington Post

43 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Slaves in the Family Edward Ball

Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, an FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new introduction by the author

The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their rice plantations were among the oldest and longest­standing plantations in the American South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery to the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his effort to track down and meet the descendants of his family’s slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, “a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a HISTORY magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.’” Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2/4/2014 9780374534455 | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. Edward Ball is the author of four works of nonfiction. Born and raised in the South, he Paperback / softback | 528 pages 48 Pages of Black­and­White Illustrations/2 attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before moving to Maps/3 Family Trees/Notes/Sources/Index | New York and working as an art critic for The Village Voice. He lives in Connecticut and Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H teaches writing at Yale University.

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“Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation’s past.” —The Atlanta Journal­ Constitution

44 Paperback Reissue/FSG Classics FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City Robin Nagle

“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times

New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it’s hauled away. But who makes that happen? What’s life like for the workers with careers built around garbage? SOCIAL SCIENCE In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle takes us inside New York City’s Department of Sanitation, a largely unseen and often unloved army Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/18/2014 responsible for keeping the city alive. Nagle spent a decade with sanitation 9780374534271 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 304 pages people of all ranks to learn what it takes to manage Gotham’s garbage. She 8 Pages of Black­and­White even took the job herself, driving trucks and plowing snow while enduring the Illustrations/Map/Glossary/Notes/Sources/Index | physical aches, public abuse, and risk of injury that are constant realities of the Carton Qty: 24 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H job. Nagle offers an insider’s perspective on the complex hierarchies, intricate Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Tessler Literary Agency LLC rules, and obscure language unique to this mostly invisible world. Not just a contemporary account, Picking Up charts New York City’s four­ hundred­year struggle with trash. It traces the city’s waste­management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to today’s far more vigorous practices, which have made the city cleaner than it’s been in decades. Complete with vividly evoked characters and memorable descriptions of the sights and smells of the job, Picking Up reveals the vital role sanitation workers play in every city across the globe.

Robin Nagle has been the anthropologist­in­residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation since 2006; she is the first person to hold the title. She is a clinical associate professor of anthropology and urban studies at New York University, where she also directs the Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought. She lives in Harlem.

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“With Picking Up, Nagle joins the likes of Jane Jacobs and Jacob Riis, writers with the chutzpah to dig deep into the Rube Goldberg machine we call the Big Apple and emerge with a lyrical, clear­eyed look at how it works.” —Mother Jones

45 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 The Story of My Purity A Novel Francesco Pacifico; Translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley

An exuberant tale of a man caught between faith and freedom, from one of Italy’s most talented young novelists

Thirty years old, growing flabby in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. He’s renounced the novels and American music that were filling his head with bullshit; he’s moved out of his fancy bourgeois neighborhood, which was keeping him from finding spiritual purity and the Lord’s truth. Now that he and his wife have settled into an unfinished FICTION housing development on the far outskirts of Rome, he’ll be able to really concentrate on his job at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 3/11/2014 books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society, 9780374534288 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 304 pages including one claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish. But Piero is Carton Qty: 28 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H suffocating. He worries that The Jewish Pope might be taking things too far. He Brit.: Hamish Hamilton Ltd can’t get his beautiful sister­in­law out of his head. Temptations are breaking Trans., dram.: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd down his religious resolve. He decides to flee to Paris, which turns out not to Audio: FSG be the best way of guarding his purity. With a charismatic narrator as familiar with the finer points of Christian theology as with the floor layout of IKEA and the schedules of European budget airlines, Francesco Pacifico’s exuberant novel brings us Europe old and new and the inner workings of a conflicted but always compelling mind. The Story of My Purity is fiction with great humor, intelligence, neuroticism, and vision, from a young writer at the beginning of a tremendous career.

Francesco Pacifico has written for a number of Italian publications, as well as for Rolling Stone and GQ, and has translated the works of Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Eggers, Will Eisner, Dana Spiotta, and more. He is the author of two novels and lives in Rome.

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"Francesco Pacifico is a brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive writer. The Story of My Purity manages to be both absurd and sincere; it is impossible to resist Piero Rosini’s precise narration of his struggle to be a saint as he endures so many earthly temptations. A joy to read." —Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia

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46 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | MARCH 2014 My Bright Abyss Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman

A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

Eight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well­known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now­famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition—might look like. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, My Bright Abyss is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this “burn of being”? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives— Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 and for our deaths—if we acknowledge the “insistent, persistent ghost” that 9780374534370 | $13.00 / $15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 192 pages some of us call God? Carton Qty: 40 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Brit., trans., audio, dram.: FSG Christian Wiman is the author of six previous books, most recently Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry, and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of MARKETING Osip Mandelstam.

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“A stark and moving meditation on the nature of grief, mortality and living a life ALSO AVAILABLE of the spirit.” —Dana Jennings, The New York Times

Every Riven Thing: Poems 10/2011 | 9780374533069 Paperback / softback | $15.00 / $17.00 Can.

47 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Silverchest Poems Carl Phillips

A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow

“After the afterlife, there’s an afterlife.”

In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we’re willing to commit fully to a life in which “I love you / means what exactly?” In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to POETRY look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others: It’s a risk, there’s a lot to lose, Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 but if it’s true that “we’ll drown anyway—why not in color?” 9780374534332 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 80 pages Carton Qty: 52 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Speak Low (FSG, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Double Shadow (FSG, 2011), winner of the Brit., trans., audio: FSG Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Dram.: Author c/o FSG St. Louis, Missouri.

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Double Shadow: Poems 3/2012 | 9780374533151 Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Speak Low: Poems 3/2010 | 9780374532161 Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can.

48 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 The Other Side of the Tiber Reflections on Time in Italy Wallis Wilde­Menozzi

A moving and illuminating memoir about a singular woman’s relationship with a fascinating and complex country

A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde­Menozzi’s unique, captivating narrative promises—and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a shared sense of life. A multifaceted image of Italy emerges—in beautiful black­and­white photographs, many taken by Wilde­ Menozzi herself—as does a portrait of the author. Wilde­Menozzi, who has written about Italy for nearly forty years, offers unexpected conclusions about BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY one of the most complex and best­loved countries in the world. Beginning her story with a hitchhiking trip to Rome when she was a student Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/8/2014 in England, she illuminates a passionate, creative, and vocal people who are 9780374534318 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 384 pages often confined to stereotypes. Earthquakes and volcanoes; a hundred­year­old 122 Black­and­White Illustrations | Carton Qty: man; Siena as a walled city; Keats in Rome; the refugee camp of Manduria; 20 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H the Slow Food movement; realism in Caravaggio; the concept of good and evil; Brit., audio: FSG Mary the Madonna as a subject—from these varied angles, Wilde­Menozzi Trans., dram.: Susan Schulman Literary Agency traces a society skeptical about competition and tolerant of contradiction. Bringing them together in the present, she suggests the compensations of the Italians’ long view of time. Like the country, this book will inspire discussion and revisiting.

Wallis Wilde­Menozzi lives in Parma, Italy, where for decades she has observed Italian life and participated in its dialogues. Her memoir Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy was published in 1997 by North Point Press to critical acclaim.

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“Richly absorbing . . . Part autobiography and part travelogue (Parma bread, Correggio, and local politics are described with equal fluency) . . . [with] drama, enchantment, and grist.” —The New Yorker

49 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Song & Error Poems Averill Curdy

A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice

A sparrow like a “fumbled punch line” is lost in an airport; a man translating Ovid is transfigured by witnessing a massacre in Jamestown in 1621; a woman smiles seductively as the skin on her back is opened out like a wing; a lizard upon a laptop shimmers with the true life, primitive and binary, of our modern information age. In the sonically rich, formally restless poems of this debut collection, Song & Error, the thread that unravels all we think we know of the world is plucked loose and drawn from a seal’s beached corpse. Uniting past and present, history and autobiography, Averill Curdy’s poems strive to endure POETRY within “the crease of transformation” and to speak—sing—of that terrible beauty. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/1/2014 9780374534325 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 112 pages Averill Curdy was born in the Pacific Northwest, where she worked as an arts administrator Carton Qty: 56 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H and in the software industry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for Brit., trans., audio, dram.: FSG the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, among others, and her poems have appeared widely in both the United States and England. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern MARKETING University.

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50 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover The Age of the Image Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens Stephen Apkon; Foreword by Martin Scorsese

An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now

We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last five hundred years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES with visual storytelling’s grammar, the coded messages of its style, and the

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/8/2014 practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. 9780374534509 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is Paperback / softback | 288 pages a celebration of the progress we’ve made and an exhortation and a plan to 13 Black­and­White Illustrations/Notes on Sources | Carton Qty: 28 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 seize the potential we’re poised to enjoy. The rules that define effective visual in H storytelling—much like the rules that define written language—do in fact exist, Brit., trans., audio: FSG and Stephen Apkon has long experience in deploying them, teaching them, Dram.: Watkins/Loomis Literary Agency, Inc. and witnessing their power in the classroom and beyond. In The Age of the Image, drawing on the history of literacy—from scroll to codex, scribes to printing presses, SMS to social media—on the science of how various forms of storytelling work on the human brain, and on the practical value of literacy in real­world situations, Apkon convincingly argues that now is the time to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate so that we can all move forward together into a rich and stimulating future.

Stephen Apkon is the founder and executive director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non­ profit film and education organization located in Pleasantville, New York. The JBFC presents a wide array of documentary, independent, and foreign film programs in a three­theater state­of­ the­art film complex, and has developed educational programs focused on twenty­first century literacy. Under Apkon’s leadership, the JBFC opened a 27,000­square­foot media arts lab in 2009. Since its doors opened in 2001, JBFC education programs have reached more than 100,000 children.

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“This sumptuously detailed and profound new book should be required reading for anyone who thinks about how to effectively communicate in our new world of screens.” —Jonathan Demme

51 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Truth's Ragged Edge The Rise of the American Novel Philip F. Gura

An authoritative history of the early American novel from one of our foremost cultural historians

Philip F. Gura’s Truth’s Ragged Edge is perhaps the first comprehensive study of the early American novel since Richard Chase’s 1957 classic, The American Novel and Its Tradition. Gura opens with the first truly homegrown genre of fiction: religious tracts, which were parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. He then turns to the city novels of the 1840s, which depicted with mixed feelings the rapid growth and modernization of American society. He concludes with fresh interpretations of the introspective novels that appeared before the Civil War, such as those by Hawthorne and by Melville, from whom LITERARY CRITICISM Gura takes his title. The grand narrative sweep of the book is balanced by Gura’s great insight that the early novel never fully left its origins behind, even Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 4/15/2014 as it evolved—it remained a means of theological and philosophical dispute, 9780374534400 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 352 pages and reflected the oldest and deepest divisions in American Christianity, politics, Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 24 | 5.500 in W | and culture. 8.250 in H In addition to discussing novels that are considered classics, Gura recovers Brit., trans., audio, dram.: FSG many novels—by authors as diverse as the evangelical writer Susan Warner, the African American novelist Frank J. Webb, and the early feminist novelist ALSO AVAILABLE Elizabeth Stoddard—that will be revelations to the contemporary reader.

American Transcendentalism: A History Panoramic and original, Truth’s Ragged Edge is an indispensable guide to the 9/2008 | 9780809016440 origins and development of the American novel and will become a standard Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. book on its subject. Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical 4/2006 | 9780809061969 Paperback / softback | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Philip F. Gura is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he holds appointments in English, American studies, and religious studies. He is the author of American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction, as well as many other books of American cultural history.

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“Gura provides a long­awaited new map of American fiction.” —The American Scholar

“Those who agree with Hemingway’s claim that Huckleberry Finn created all modern American fiction will find this study of our pre­Twain literary tradition illuminating.” —Publishers Weekly

52 Now in Paperback! FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 The Genius of Earth Day How a 1970 Teach­In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation Adam Rome

“Rome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era.” — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker

The first Earth Day is the most famous little­known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American NATURE political life. But no one has told the whole story before.

North Point Press | 4/15/2014 The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and 9780865477742 | $17.00 / $19.00 Can. a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 Paperback / softback | 368 pages created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and 8 Pages of Black­and­White Illustrations/Notes/Note on Sources/Index | participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day Carton Qty: 24 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 1970 helped to build a lasting eco­infrastructure—lobbying organizations, Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Hill and Wang environmental beats at newspapers, environmental­studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. In The Genius of Earth Day, the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life.

Adam Rome teaches environmental history and environmental nonfiction at the University of Delaware. Before earning his PhD in history, he worked for seven years as a journalist. His first book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Lewis Mumford Prize.

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“A fascinating treatment of both environmentalism and the structure of activism at the time.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A thorough evocation . . . Rome’s retelling of the hopeful origins of Earth Day and its early successes contain an important lesson for today.” —The Post and Courier

53 Now in Paperback! NORTH POINT PRESS | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover The Great American Documents: Volume 1 Prologues of Promise, 1620­1830 Ruth Ashby; Illustrated by Ernie Colón; Editorial Consultant Russell Motter

The essential primer on twenty of the most influential American documents between 1620 and 1830

The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic­book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of HISTORY America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it. Hill and Wang | 2/11/2014 Volume 1 introduces as the series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, 9780809094608 | $40.00 / $46.00 Can. who walks readers through twenty major documents bookended by the Hardback | 160 pages Full­Color Illustrations Throughout/Suggested Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Each Reading | Carton Qty: 0 | 7.000 in W | 10.000 document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key in H passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Hill and Wang chapter “The Maryland Toleration Act” we learn that the document was one of MARKETING the first blueprints for modern religious tolerance. “Common Sense” depicts the Boston Tea Party and the British response as the prelude to Paine’s stirring pamphlet. And “The Louisiana Purchase Treaty” closes with Lewis and Clark l National Publicity setting off to map Jefferson’s “empire of liberty.” l National Advertising l Blad As Ashby shows, the creation of that empire made for immense prosperity but also entailed the extension of slavery and the forcible removal of the Indians. Her balanced and teachable theme is that these twenty ALSO AVAILABLE documents embodied our early struggles to live up to the principles of liberty

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized and equality. A handy and elegantly concise guide, this masterfully illustrated Graphic Biography volume is the perfect book for students of American history, young and old. 9/2010 | 9780809026852 Paperback / softback | $16.95 / $18.95 Can. Ruth Ashby is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. A former The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation book editor, she teaches English at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York. Ernie 8/2006 | 9780809057399 Paperback / softback | $16.95 / $18.95 Can. Colón is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, After 9/11, Che, and Anne Frank (all published by Hill and Wang). He has worked at Marvel, where he oversaw the production of Spider­Man, and at DC Comics, where he did the same for Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Blackhawk, and the Flash. Ashby and Colón live in Huntington, New York.

54 Novel Graphics, Hardcover and Paperback HILL AND WANG | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover The Great American Documents: Volume 1 Prologues of Promise, 1620­1830 Ruth Ashby; Illustrated by Ernie Colón; Editorial Consultant Russell Motter

The essential primer on twenty of the most influential American documents between 1620 and 1830

The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic­book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of HISTORY America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it. Hill and Wang | 2/11/2014 Volume 1 introduces as the series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, 9780374534530 | $20.00 / $23.00 Can. who walks readers through twenty major documents bookended by the Paperback / softback | 160 pages Full­Color Illustrations Throughout/Suggested Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Each Reading | Carton Qty: 0 | 7.000 in W | 10.000 document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key in H passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Hill and Wang chapter “The Maryland Toleration Act” we learn that the document was one of MARKETING the first blueprints for modern religious tolerance. “Common Sense” depicts the Boston Tea Party and the British response as the prelude to Paine’s stirring pamphlet. And “The Louisiana Purchase Treaty” closes with Lewis and Clark l National Publicity setting off to map Jefferson’s “empire of liberty.” l National Advertising l Blad As Ashby shows, the creation of that empire made for immense prosperity but also entailed the extension of slavery and the forcible removal of the Indians. Her balanced and teachable theme is that these twenty ALSO AVAILABLE documents embodied our early struggles to live up to the principles of liberty

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized and equality. A handy and elegantly concise guide, this masterfully illustrated Graphic Biography volume is the perfect book for students of American history, young and old. 9/2010 | 9780809026852 Paperback / softback | $16.95 / $18.95 Can. Ruth Ashby is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. A former The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation book editor, she teaches English at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York. Ernie 8/2006 | 9780809057399 Paperback / softback | $16.95 / $18.95 Can. Colón is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, After 9/11, Che, and Anne Frank (all published by Hill and Wang). He has worked at Marvel, where he oversaw the production of Spider­Man, and at DC Comics, where he did the same for Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Blackhawk, and the Flash. Ashby and Colón live in Huntington, New York.

55 Novel Graphics, Hardcover and Paperback HILL AND WANG | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Encounters at the Heart of the World A History of the Mandan People Elizabeth A. Fenn

A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans

Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804–1805 with them, but why don’t we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, HISTORY Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology,

Hill and Wang | 3/11/2014 and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse 9780809042395 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new Hardback | 480 pages interpretation of the American past. 73 Black­and­White Illustrations/15 Maps/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 12 | 6.000 in By 1500, more than 12,000 Mandans were established on the northern W | 9.000 in H Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: Hill and Wang thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported Dram.: Garamond Agency diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their MARKETING sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn’s l National Advertising narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her l Academic Advertising in The Chronicle of Higher Education own encounters at the heart of the world.

Elizabeth A. Fenn is an associate professor at the University of Colorado–Boulder, where ALSO AVAILABLE she holds the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Chair in Western American History. She is the coauthor of Natives and Newcomers and the author of the award­winning Pox Americana (Hill Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of & Wang, 2001). She lives in Longmont, Colorado. 1775­82 10/2002 | 9780809078219 Paperback / softback | $17.00 / $19.00 Can. PRAISE

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“With Pox Americana, Fenn has made a stunning contribution to American Revolution studies.” —The Boston Globe

“Fenn provides a dazzling new perspective that embraces the entire continent . . . A story that is timely as well as powerful and sobering.” —Alan Taylor, The

56 HILL AND WANG | MARCH 2014 The Improbability Principle Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day David J. Hand

An eye­opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world

In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand unveils his groundbreaking argument that extraordinarily rare events are in fact commonplace. Weaving together fascinating new ways to think about chance, Hand highlights his “law of near enough,” the “look elsewhere effect,” and more, doing for probability what Newton’s laws of motion did for mechanics. MATHEMATICS Through humorous and engaging tales of two­time lottery winners, gambling gone wrong, and bizarre coincidences that we can’t quite fathom, Hand argues

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux that extremely unlikely events must happen, and no mystical or supernatural | 2/11/2014 explanation is necessary to understand why. Hand’s investigation, grounded in 9780374175344 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. statistics and brought to life with fascinating anecdotes, finally explains Hardback | 272 pages Black­and­White Illustrations/Notes/Index | “unexplainable” events such as unexpectedly bumping into a friend in a foreign Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H country and coming across an unfamiliar word twice in one day. Along the way, we learn what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, just how to win the Brit., 1st ser., audio, dram.: SA/FSG lottery, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does Trans.: The Science Factory strike the same place (and the same person) more than once. As Hand makes clear, we can rest assured that we’ll experience a “miracle” roughly once per MARKETING month. An irresistible adventure into the laws behind chance moments, The l National Publicity Improbability Principle transforms how we think about business decisions, l National Advertising l Cross­Promotion and Marketing with everyday encounters, serendipity, and luck. Scientific American and www.scientificamerican.com David J. Hand is an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College, London. He is the former president of the Royal Statistical Society and the chief scientific adviser to Winton Capital, Europe’s most successful algorithmic trading hedge fund. He is the author of seven books, including The Information Generation and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and has published more than three hundred scientific papers. He lives in London, England.

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“The best simple introduction to statistics I've come across.” —Brian Clegg, popularscience.co.uk

57 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN / FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Personal Intelligence The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives John D. Mayer

The groundbreaking psychologist argues that understanding personality is the key to our well­being

We are all curious about what people are thinking and what makes them tick. This urge to understand others helps us to adapt successfully to the world around us. Now, in Personal Intelligence, the renowned psychologist John D. Mayer reveals that we all possess a type of intelligence—a master guidance system—that allows us to understand the motives, traits, and plans that direct PSYCHOLOGY people’s personalities, including our own. Mayer, who co­developed the theory of emotional intelligence, argues that

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux there exists a broader, guiding intelligence called “personal intelligence.” | 2/18/2014 Drawing on classic case studies and cutting­edge research, and illustrating his 9780374230852 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. points with examples from successful baseball players to talented portrait Hardback | 288 pages Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | artists, he demonstrates that a diverse group of skills—previously regarded as 9.000 in H unrelated—form a coherent mental ability we use to evaluate ourselves and Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: SA/FSG others. He shows how people high in personal intelligence (PI) solve problems that range from anticipating other people’s behavior to motivating themselves MARKETING over the long term. Describing these skills for the first time and providing readers with suggestions for ways to improve their own PI, Mayer puts forward l National Publicity an important message about personality and happiness. l National Advertising l Cross­Promotion and Marketing with John D. Mayer is a professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and is a key Scientific American and www.scientificamerican.com innovator in intelligence research. He has written more than 125 scientific articles, books, and psychological tests, including the internationally known Mayer­Salovey­Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT™). He has lectured around the world, has blogged for Psychology Today, and has appeared on NPR and BBC TV. His work has been covered in The New York Times, Time, and The Washington Post. He lives in New Hampshire.

58 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN / FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | FEBRUARY 2014 Infinitesimal How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World Amir Alexander

The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it

On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern SCIENCE world. Amir Alexander’s Infinitesimal is the story of the struggle that pitted

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Europe’s entrenched powers against voices for tolerance and change. It takes | 4/8/2014 us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of 9780374176815 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. the English civil war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers like Hardback | 368 pages 20 Black­and­White Illustrations/Time Line/Cast Galileo and Hobbes. We see how a small mathematical disagreement became of Characters/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | a contest over the nature of the heavens and the earth: Was the world entirely 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H known and ruled by a divinely sanctioned rationality and hierarchy? Or was it a Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: SA/FSG vast and mysterious place, ripe for exploration? The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, MARKETING hung in the balance; the answer hinged on the infinitesimal. Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the l National Publicity way you look at a simple line—and celebrates the spirit of discovery, l National Advertising l Cross­Promotion and Marketing with innovation, and intellectual achievement. Scientific American and www.scientificamerican.com Amir Alexander teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of Geometrical Landscapes and Duel at Dawn. His work has been featured in Nature, The Guardian, and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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“[Alexander’s] sensitive and thoughtful presentation illuminates the inner geometry of mathematical experience.” —The Times Literary Supplement

“A marvelous history.” —Martin Gardner, The New Criterion

“A fascinating and provocative book.” —The Times Higher Education Supplement

59 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN / FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Frankenstein's Cat Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts Emily Anthes

“A fascinating romp . . . Offers elegant explanations of neuroscience and genetics.” —Mother Jones

For centuries, we’ve toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further? Science has given us a new toolbox for tinkering with life. How are we using it? SCIENCE In Frankenstein’s Cat, the journalist Emily Anthes takes us from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping the future of our

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux furry and feathered friends. As she ventures from bucolic barnyards to a “frozen | 4/8/2014 zoo,” she discovers how we can use cloning to protect endangered species, 9780374534240 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. craft prosthetics to save injured animals, and employ genetic engineering to Paperback / softback | 256 pages Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 32 | 5.500 in W | supply farms with disease­resistant livestock. Along the way, we meet some of 8.250 in H the animals that are ushering in this astonishing age of enhancement, including Brit., trans., audio, dram.: The Park Literary cyborg beetles, a bionic bulldog, and the world’s first cloned cat. Group While some of our interventions may be trivial, others could improve the lives of many species—including our own. With keen insight, Anthes highlights MARKETING both the peril and the promise of our scientific superpowers, taking us on an adventure into a world where our science­fiction fantasies are fast becoming l National Publicity reality. l National Advertising l Web Marketing Campaign l Cross­Promotion and Marketing with Emily Anthes is a journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Scientific American and Discover, Psychology Today, Slate, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, and other www.scientificamerican.com publications. She has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, The Leonard Lopate Show, Animal Radio, and The Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast. She has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her dog, Milo.

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One of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of March 2013

One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books

One of Amazon’s Best Nonfiction Books for March 2013

“An animated review of the many ways in which biotechnologists have altered

60 Now in Paperback! SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN / FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | APRIL 2014 Jacket Cover MFA vs. NYC How (Not) to Make a Living as a Writer Edited by Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach and contributors map out the “two cultures” of American fiction: MFA programs and NYC publishing

In a widely read essay entitled “MFA vs. NYC,” bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. Should you seek an advanced degree, or will workshops smother your style? Do you need to move LITERARY COLLECTIONS to New York, or will the high cost of living undo you? What’s worse—having a day job, or having no health insurance? How do agents decide what to n+1 | 2/25/2014 represent? Will Big Publishing survive? How has the rise of MFA programs 9780865478138 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages affected American fiction? The expert contributors, including George Saunders, Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Elif Batuman, and Fredric Jameson, consider all these questions and more, with humor and rigor. A must­read for aspiring writers, and for anyone Brit., trans., dram.: n+1 interested in the present and future of American letters. 2nd ser., audio: FSG

Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin and was educated at Harvard and the University of MARKETING Virginia. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Art of Fielding (2011), as well as a founder and editor of n+1 magazine. l National Publicity

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“The best goddamn literary magazine in America.” —Mary Karr, author of Lit: A Memoir

“Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands.”" —Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom

61 Paperback Original N+1 | FEBRUARY 2014 On Leave A Novel Daniel Anselme; Translated from the French by David Bellos

A long­lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war

When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France’s engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, FICTION its power to disturb was too much to bear. Through David Bellos’s translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Faber & Faber | 3/4/2014 Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a 9780865478954 | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 224 pages corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these Appendix/List of Works | Carton Qty: 12 | 5.000 soldiers have to say can’t be heard, can’t even be spoken; they find themselves in W | 7.500 in H strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and Brit., trans, 1st ser., audio, dram.: Faber & Faber feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never MARKETING record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.

l David Bellos Appearance in Princeton, Daniel Anselme was born Daniel Rabinovitch in 1927, and adopted the name Anselme while NJ serving in the French Resistance with his father. Anselme traveled widely as a journalist, and l National Publicity was known as a raconteur and a habitué of Left Bank cafés. A vocal protester of France’s l National Advertising war with Algeria, he addressed the war in On Leave (1957), his first novel. Anselme l FSG First Look Program published a second novel, Relations, in 1964; ran the journal Les Cahiers de Mai from 1968 to 1974; and was one of the leaders of Solidarity Radio in Paris in 1981–82. He published a semiautobiographical account of his wartime experiences called The Secret Companion in 1984, and died five years later in Paris. David Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communicati...

62 FABER & FABER | MARCH 2014 The French Intifada The Long War Between France and Its Arabs Andrew Hussey

A provocative rethinking of France’s long relationship with the Arab world

To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France—and, indeed, all of Europe—as well as major events from the Arab Spring to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. As much as unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues, the root of the problem lies elsewhere: in the continuing fallout from Europe’s colonial era. HISTORY Combining a fascinating and compulsively readable mix of history, literature, and politics with his years of personal experience visting the banlieues and Faber & Faber | 3/18/2014 countries across the Arab world, especially Algeria, Hussey attempts to make 9780865479210 | $28.00 Hardback | 384 pages sense of the present situation. In the course of teasing out the myriad 8 Pages of Black­and­White interconnections between past and present in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Illustrations/Maps/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 0 | Beirut, and Western Europe, The French Intifada shows that the defining 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H conflict of the twenty­first century will not be between Islam and the West but Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: The Wylie Agency Audio: FSG between two dramatically different experiences of the world—the colonizers and the colonized. MARKETING Andrew Hussey is the dean of the University of London Institute in Paris, a regular contributor to The Guardian and the New Statesman, and the writer/presenter of several BBC l National Publicity documentaries on French food and art. He is the author of The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord and Paris: The Secret History. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year’s Honours list for services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and France.

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Praise for Paris: The Secret History

“In his . . . shockingly violent alternative history of Paris, Andrew Hussey illuminates the city’s gutters, stews, slaughters, riots, underbellies, and crimes in the shadowy corners that Balzac relished. The result is . . . a fascinating riot of a book.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem

63 FABER & FABER | MARCH 2014 Jacket Cover American Smoke Journeys to the End of the Light Iain Sinclair

The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet

“How best to describe Iain Sinclair?” asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. “A literary mud­larker and tip­picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle­class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty­first­century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL­E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city’s textual waste? A psycho­geographer (from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY the mainstream)? He’s all of these, and more.” Now, for the first time, the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American Faber & Faber | 4/15/2014 shores for his long­awaited engagement with the memory­filled landscapes of 9780865478671 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. the American Beats and their fellow travelers. Hardback | 352 pages A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, American Smoke is an Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Zeno Agency Ltd epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, 1st ser.: FSG William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and others, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports, MARKETING and strange adventures. With American Smoke, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of l National Publicity our chroniclers of the contemporary.

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the ALSO AVAILABLE Encore Award); Landor’s Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky’s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Orbital; Dining on Stones; Hackney, That Rose­Red Empire; and Ghost Milk. He is also the Olympics editor of London: City of Disappearances. 7/2013 | 9780865477667 Paperback / softback | $17.00 PRAISE

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“Inventive, dazzling, arresting. A superb chronicle of an impossible dream that has descended to a nightmare.” —New Statesman

“Brilliant, superb. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure.” — Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian

64 FABER & FABER | APRIL 2014 Scenes from Early Life A Novel Philip Hensher

“Beautifully packed with detail . . . Does for Bangladesh what Rushdie did for India.” —The Sunday Times

From the Man Booker–short­listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice. In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth­century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; FICTION from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each Faber & Faber | 1/7/2014 and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life 9780865478053 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the 10 Black­and­White Illustrations | Carton Qty: 24 collective memory of a family and a country. | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, Scenes from Early Life is Brit.: Fourth Estate based on the life of Philip Hensher’s husband, and as such it is at once a Trans., audio, dram.: A. P. Watt memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable writer brings the past to life, ALSO AVAILABLE we come to feel, vividly and viscerally, that Saadi’s family—and its struggles and triumphs—are our own. The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting 11/2012 | 9780865478930 Philip Hensher is a columnist for The Independent, an arts critic for The Spectator, and one Hardback | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. He has written one collection of short stories, a King of the Badgers: A Novel book on handwriting called The Missing Ink, and eight novels, including The Mulberry Empire, 9/2012 | 9780865478749 Paperback / softback | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. King of the Badgers, and The Northern Clemency, which was short­listed for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in South London and Geneva.

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“One of the most delightful and engaging descriptions of family life to have been published for many years . . . Saturated with gentleness, humour and affection.” —Amanda Craig, The Independent on Sunday

65 Now in Paperback! FABER & FABER | JANUARY 2014 Jacket Cover Bad Pharma How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients Ben Goldacre

“Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero.” — Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about these drugs, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the SCIENCE pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve Faber & Faber | 2/4/2014 useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and 9780865478060 | $16.00 Paperback / softback | 448 pages patients. 17 Black­and­White Illustrations/Glossary/Further All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they Reading/Notes/Index | Carton Qty: 20 | 5.500 are too complex to capture in a sound bite. Ben Goldacre shows that the true in W | 8.250 in H scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are Brit.: Fourth Estate Trans., audio, dram.: The Zoë Pagnamenta untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data Agency manipulation works and how research misconduct in the medical industry affects us on a global scale. ALSO AVAILABLE With Goldacre’s characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system in need of regulation. This is the Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before. Flacks 10/2010 | 9780865479180 Paperback / softback | $15.00 Ben Goldacre is a doctor and a writer. His first book, Bad Science, was an international bestseller and has been translated into twenty­five languages. He lives in London.

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“Funny and biting . . . While it is a very entertaining book, it also provides important insight into the horrifying outcomes that can result when willful anti­ intellectualism is allowed equal footing with scientific methodology.” —Dennis Rosen, The Boston Globe

66 Now in Paperback! FABER & FABER | FEBRUARY 2014 Jacket Cover This Is the Way A Novel Gavin Corbett

From a startling new voice in Irish fiction, a mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin

Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin: he fears he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family. Twenty­ first­century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past. When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him—and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is. In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the FICTION power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern Faber & Faber | 3/4/2014 spirit has somehow persisted into contemporary life, brooding and overlooked. 9780865478077 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 240 pages Funny, terrible, unsettling, fiercely unsentimental, This Is the Way is haunted Carton Qty: 32 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H by some of Ireland’s greatest writers even as it breaks new ground and asks Brit.: Fourth Estate afresh why the imagination is so necessary to survival. Trans., dram.: Janklow & Nesbit Associates Audio: Faber & Faber Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and was raised in Dublin, where he studied history at Trinity College. This Is the Way is his second novel. He lives in Dublin.

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“Every now and then, a book comes along to reinvigorate the language and the way we ‘music’ our world. Gavin Corbett’s This Is the Way—honest, funny, brave, unsentimental—is one of those books. A voice to savor and watch out for.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

67 Now in Paperback! FABER & FABER | MARCH 2014 The Bees Poems Carol Ann Duffy

A winner of the Costa Book Award, “beautiful and moving poetry for the real world” (The Guardian)

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, and poems of political anger. There are elegies, too, for beloved friends and—most movingly—for the poet’s mother. As Duffy’s voice rises in this collection, her music intensifies, and every poem patterns itself into song. Woven into and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. POETRY Sometimes the bee is Duffy’s subject, sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge—and the reader soon begins to anticipate its appearance. In Faber & Faber | 3/18/2014 the end, Duffy’s point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in 9780865478084 | $15.00 Paperback / softback | 96 pages the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The 4 Black­and­White Illustrations | Carton Qty: 52 Bees is Duffy’s clearest affirmation yet of her belief in the poem as “secular | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H prayer,” as the means by which we remind ourselves of what is most worthy of Brit., trans., dram.: Pan Macmillan (U.K.) our attention and concern, our passion and our praise. Audio: Faber & Faber

MARKETING Carol Ann Duffy was appointed British poet laureate in 2009. She lives in Manchester, where she is a professor and the creative director at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. l Poetry Advertising Campaign

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68 Now in Paperback! FABER & FABER | MARCH 2014 Constellations A Play Nick Payne

“A singular astonishment.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they don’t. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that she’s now engaged to someone else and that’s that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short. Nick Payne’s Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it’s also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey.

DRAMA Nick Payne is the author of the plays If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, which won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for best play; Wanderlust; One Day When We Faber & Faber | 3/4/2014 Were Young; and Lay Down Your Cross, among others. He is the winner of the 2009 George 9780865477711 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the 2012 Harold Pinter Playwright’s Award. Paperback / softback | 96 pages He is currently under commission with the Royal Court Theatre, the Donmare Warehouse, and Carton Qty: 56 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H the Manhattan Theatre Club. He was born in 1984 and lives in Norwich, England. Brit., trans.: Faber and Faber Ltd 1st ser.: FSG Audio, dram.: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment PRAISE

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69 Paperback Original FABER & FABER | MARCH 2014 Before I Burn A Novel Gaute Heivoll; Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

An international literary sensation about an arsonist on the loose in rural Norway and the young boy who witnessed it all

In 1970s Norway, an arsonist targets a small town for one long, terrifying month. One by one, buildings go up in flames. Suspicion spreads among the neighbors as they wonder if one of their own is responsible. But as the heat and panic rise, new life finds a way to emerge. Amid the chaos, only a day after the last house is set afire, the community comes together for the christening of a young boy named Gaute Heivoll. As he grows up, stories about the time of fear and fire become deeply engrained in his young mind until, as an FICTION adult, he begins to retell the story. At the novel’s apex at a literary festival in Italy, where the lives of Heivoll’s friends and neighbors mix with his own life, the Graywolf Press | 1/7/2014 identity of the arsonist and his motivations are slowly revealed. Based on the 9781555976613 | $26.00 Hardback | 336 pages true account of Norway’s most dramatic arson case, Before I Burn is a Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H powerful, gripping breakout novel from an exceptionally talented author. Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Atlantic Books c/o InkWell Management Gaute Heivoll’s Before I Burn was a bestseller in Norway. The novel won the Brage Prize and was nominated for the Critics Prize and the Booksellers’ Prize, and has been sold in more MARKETING than twenty countries.

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70 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | JANUARY 2014 The Empathy Exams Essays Leslie Jamison

From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others’—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning LITERARY COLLECTIONS wide­ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of Graywolf Press | 4/1/2014 sight shaped by humility and grace. 9781555976712 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Leslie Jamison is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, which was a finalist for the Los Brit.: Granta Books U.K. Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her essays have appeared in Believer, Trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: The Wylie Agency Harper’s Magazine, Oxford American, and Tin House. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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71 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | APRIL 2014 Woke Up Lonely A Novel Fiona Maazel

“Intricately imagined and timely . . . Maazel is an entertaining writer with a dry, droll sense of humor.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice

Fiona Maazel’s Woke Up Lonely follows a cult leader, his ex­wife, and the four people he takes hostage. It’s about loneliness in America, North Korea, espionage, a city underneath Cincinnati, cloud seeding, and eavesdropping. It’s also a big, sweeping love story.

“Hilarious and heartbreaking.” —NPR

“Brilliantly imagined.” —Vanity Fair FICTION “Maazel’s insights are as sound as her imagination is wild.” —Oprah.com, Graywolf Press | 4/1/2014 Book of the Week 9781555976729 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 352 pages Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H “The talented Maazel has plenty of imagination.” —USA Today Brit., trans., dram.: Donald Maass Literary Agency “Uniformly entertaining . . . It’s thrilling to imagine what Fiona Maazel might do Audio: Dreamscape next.” —The Boston Globe MARKETING “Maazel possesses a formidable imagination and considerable linguistic virtuosity.” —The Chicago Tribune l 5­City Author Tour l National Publicity l National Advertising Fiona Maazel is the author of Last Last Chance. She is a winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction l Online Marketing and Publicity and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She teaches at Brooklyn College, Campaign Columbia, New York University, and Princeton. She lives in Brooklyn. l Bookseller Outreach l Co­op Available PRAISE ALSO AVAILABLE “[A] fun farce.” —Cosmopolitan

Last Last Chance: A Novel 3/2009 | 9780312428310 “Woke Up Lonely is another wunderkammer, a deeply felt and wildly original Paperback / softback | $19.00 / $22.00 Can. novel that repays the attention it demands, and once read won’t soon be forgotten.” —Bookforum

“One of the best pieces of fiction and social satire of the year.” —The Millions

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72 Now in Paperback! GRAYWOLF PRESS | APRIL 2014 Karate Chop Stories Dorthe Nors; Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken

The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: “beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . . . [from] a rising star” (Junot Díaz)

Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors’s acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps, a husband prowls the Internet, obsessed with female serial killers; a bureaucrat tries to reinvent himself, exposing goodness as artifice when he converts to FICTION Buddhism in search of power; a woman sits on the edge of the bed where her lover lies, attempting to locate a motive for his violence within her own self­ Graywolf Press | 2/4/2014 doubt. Shifting between moments of violence (real and imagined) and mundane 9781555976651 | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 112 pages contemporary life, these stories encompass the complexity of human Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H emotions, our capacity for cruelty as well as compassion. Not so much Brit., 1st ser., audio: Graywolf Press minimalist as stealthy, Karate Chop delivers its blows with an understatement Trans., dram.: Gyldendal Group Agency that shows a master at work.

MARKETING Dorthe Nors is the author of five novels and the recipient of the Danish Arts Agency’s Three Year Grant for “her unusual and extraordinary talent.” Her stories have appeared in Agni, A l National Publicity Public Space, Boston Review, Ecotone, and Fence. l National Advertising l Online Marketing and Publicity Campaign PRAISE l Bookseller Outreach l Librarian Outreach “Readers of Nors’s stories are reminded of the thrills and dangers of living: l Co­op Available l Advance Reader’s Edition never are we far from the dark undercurrent—nor exempt from the demands—of routine existence. Memories, laughter, a gesture: everything casts a shadow, meaningful or mysterious. These stories prove that no loss is too small, and each moment counts.” —Yiyun Li

73 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | FEBRUARY 2014 The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld A Memoir Justin Hocking

Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby­Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoir

Justin Hocking doesn’t adapt easily to New York City. He has panic attacks on the subway under the East River, struggles as an assistant at a romance publisher, feels powerless as a long­distance relationship crumbles. He comes to see himself as a modern­day Ishmael, and he’s looking for a way out. Far Rockaway is his escape. There he discovers surfing and a colorful circle of friends, both of which prove vital to his sanity, especially in the wake of a traumatic carjacking. But the tides of this memoir pull in more than surfboards. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY As he ventures further into the dark on his own “night sea journey,” Hocking details his obsessions, from Moby­Dick to Scientology’s naval ties, from Graywolf Press | 3/4/2014 environmentalism to the Iraq War, and from twelve­step meetings to Basquiat. 9781555976699 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld is an affecting portrait of an unsung Illustrations | Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | neighborhood and an original look at the swirling world of New York. 8.250 in H Brit.: Graywolf Press Justin Hocking is an avid surfer and skateboarder. He edited Life and Limb: Skateboarders Trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Frances Goldin Write from the Deep End, and his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Thrasher, and The Literary Agency Normal School. He is the executive director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center and lives in Portland, Oregon. MARKETING

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74 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | MARCH 2014 Glyph A Novel Percival Everett

In paperback for the first time, the much­beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as “both a treatise and a romp”

Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib—but they don’t include staring at a mobile. Aided by his mother, he reads voraciously: “All of Swift, all of Sterne, Invisible Man, Baldwin, Joyce, Balzac, Auden, Roethke,” along with a generous helping of philosophy, semiotics, and trashy thrillers. He’s also fond of writing poems and stories (in crayon). But Ralph has limits. He’s mute by choice and can’t drive, so in his own estimation he’s not a genius. Unfortunately for him, everyone else disagrees. His psychiatrist kidnaps him for testing, and once his brilliance is quantified (IQ: 475), a Pentagon officer also abducts him. Diabolically funny and lacerating in its critique of FICTION poststructuralism, Glyph has the feverish plot of a thriller and the philosophical depth of a text by Roland Barthes. If anyone can map the wilds of literary Graywolf Press | 2/18/2014 theory, it’s Ralph, one of Percival Everett’s most enduring creations. 9781555976675 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 216 pages Carton Qty: 0 | 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty books. He is the recipient of the Brit.: Graywolf Press Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He teaches at Trans., audio, dram.: Melanie Jackson Agency the University of Southern California and lives outside Los Angeles.

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75 Paperback Reissue GRAYWOLF PRESS | FEBRUARY 2014 Ask Me 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford William Stafford; Edited by Kim Stafford

“In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford.” —Naomi Shihab Nye

Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. —from “Ask Me” POETRY In celebration of the poet’s centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Graywolf Press | 1/7/2014 Stafford’s essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War II, 9781555976644 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. while assigned to Civilian Public Service camps Stafford began his daily writing Paperback / softback | 128 pages Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H practice, a lifelong early­morning ritual of witness. His poetry reveals the Brit., trans., dram.: Graywolf Press consequences of violence, the daily necessity of moral decisions, and the Audio: Estate of William Stafford bounty of art. Selected and with a note by Kim Stafford, Ask Me presents the best from a profound and original American voice. MARKETING

William Stafford (1914–1993) was the author of more than fifty books, including Traveling l National Publicity Through the Dark, winner of the National Book Award. He served as Consultant in Poetry to l Librarian Outreach the Library of Congress and was Oregon’s poet laureate. l Oregon Public Libraries Promotion l Academic Outreach l Advance Reader’s Edition PRAISE

ALSO AVAILABLE “Stafford . . . left behind a body of work that represents some of the finest poetry written during the second half of the twentieth century.” —Library Journal Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937­1947 “William Stafford’s quiet presence in the landscape of American poetry in my 4/2008 | 9781555974978 lifetime has been a kind of continuing reassurance.” —W. S. Merwin Hardback | $24.00 / $27.50 Can. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems 3/1999 | 9781555972844 Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can.

76 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | JANUARY 2014 Directing Herbert White Poems James Franco

The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco

I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face—

In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go like the rest, But I’ll have played POETRY All the games and all the roles. Graywolf Press | 4/15/2014 —from “Nocturnal” 9781555976736 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 88 pages Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H “There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood—fame, celebrity, the Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: Graywolf Press promise of becoming an artist—is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Dram.: 3 Arts Entertainment Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point MARKETING that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” —Frank Bidart l National Publicity

l National Advertising l Co­op Available “A star­studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco's l Advance Reader’s Edition poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self­reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk's lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” —Anne Waldman

James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and artist. He has appeared in numerous films, and has directed and adapted many literary works for the screen, including Frank Bidart’s “Herbert White.”

77 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | APRIL 2014 The Earth Avails Poems Mark Wunderlich

The anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry “reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths” (The New Yorker)

With your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulled the woolen shawl around me while I slept.

That the lightning struck the willow and did not fall—for this I am grateful. —from “Heaven­Letter”

The Earth Avails evokes an all­but­lost history, when every setting, thought, POETRY and action was imbued with ritual: here’s the prayer said in a time of sickness; here’s the blessing spoken upon entering the house; here’s the letter from Graywolf Press | 2/4/2014 heaven that protects its holder from harm and misfortune. Rendered in part from 9781555976668 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 80 pages folkloric and historical sources, Mark Wunderlich’s poems reinvent these Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H traditions with lyrical and emotive force for a new century of readers. Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press Mark Wunderlich is the author of two previous poetry collections, Voluntary Servitude and The Anchorage, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He teaches at Bennington College and MARKETING lives in upstate New York.

l Graywolf Poetry Tour l National Publicity PRAISE l Poetry Advertising Campaign l Advance Reader’s Edition “No matter the topic, Wunderlich almost infallibly strikes a tone of humane feeling and aesthetic refinement.” —Contemporary Poetry Review

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78 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | FEBRUARY 2014 How to Dance as the Roof Caves In Poems Nick Lantz

“Nick Lantz writes with elegant simplicity. Most poets take a lifetime to learn as much.” —Linda Gregerson

I say I love and I love and I love. However, the window will not close. However, the hawk searches for its nest after a storm. However, the discarded nail longs to hide its nakedness inside the tire. —from “Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together”

How to Dance as the Roof Caves In examines America as it faces a recession POETRY of collective mood and collective wealth. In a central sequence, the “housing bubble” reaches its bursting point when, with hilarious and biting outcomes, Graywolf Press | 3/4/2014 real estate developers hire a married couple and other down­and­out “extras” to 9781555976705 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 88 pages stage a fake community to lure prospective investors. In these marvelous Carton Qty: 0 | 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H poems, Nick Lantz describes the changing American landscape with great Brit., trans., audio, dram.: Graywolf Press imagination and sharp wit. 1st ser.: Author c/o Graywolf Press

Nick Lantz is the author of two previous poetry books, We Don’t Know We Don’t Know and MARKETING The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House. He teaches at Sam Houston State University and lives in Texas. l Graywolf Poetry Tour l Poetry Advertising l Poetry­Fan Bookseller Outreach PRAISE l Advance Reader’s Edition “Every now and then a new poet explodes onto the scene with enough force that struggling writers all over the country feel alternating tremors of jealousy ALSO AVAILABLE and awe. [In 2010] that poet was Nick Lantz.” —Sean Bishop, Gulf Coast

We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems “[We Don’t Know We Don’t Know] is a masterpiece.” —John Burnside, New 3/2010 | 9781555975524 Statesman Paperback / softback | $15.00 / $17.00 Can.

79 Paperback Original GRAYWOLF PRESS | MARCH 2014 On Loving Women Diane Obomsawin; Translated from the French by Helge Dascher

Intimate vignettes of women coming out

On Loving Women is a new collection of stories about coming out, first love, and sexual identity by the animator Diane Obomsawin. With this work, Obomsawin brings her gaze to bear on subjects closer to home—her friends’ and lovers’ personal accounts of realizing they’re gay or first finding love with another woman. Each story is a master class in reaching the emotional truth of a situation with the simplest means possible. Her stripped­down pages use the bare minimum of linework to expressively reveal heartbreak, joy, irritation, and fear. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS On Loving Women focuses primarily on adolescence—crushes on high school teachers, awkwardness on first dates—but also addresses much Drawn and Quarterly | 2/11/2014 deeper­seated difficulties of being out: fears of rejection and of not being who 9781770461406 | $16.95 Paperback / softback | 88 pages others want one to be. Within these pages, Obomsawin has forged a poignant, Illustrations Throughout | Carton Qty: 0 | 7.000 powerful narrative that speaks to the difficulties of coming out and the joys of in W | 9.000 in H being loved. 3 Photos Her first English­language work, Kaspar—a retelling of the life of Kaspar Hauser, the mysterious German youth who was raised in isolation and Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: D+Q murdered just a few years after emerging from his imprisonment—was critically MARKETING lauded for its simple but expressive storytelling, and for the way it portrayed traumatic material compassionately but without self­indulgence.

l Select Author Appearances Born in Montreal in 1959, Diane Obomsawin spent the first twenty years of her life in l National Publicity l National Marketing Campaign France. After studying graphic design, she returned to Canada in 1983 and turned her attention to painting, comics, and animation. Here and There, her autobiographical film, garnered numerous prestigious distinctions. She has published a number of comics in French ALSO AVAILABLE and one previous book with Drawn & Quarterly, Kaspar (2009).

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“Obomsawin adapts with spartan elegance . . . [Kaspar is] a paradoxically winsome take on a perennially intriguing true story.” —Booklist

“Diane Obomsawin’s Kaspar is . . . as spare and mysterious as its subject . . . As brief as it is, it’s also quietly affecting right up to its abrupt, tragic ending.” —The Boston Globe

80 Paperback Original DRAWN AND QUARTERLY | FEBRUARY 2014 Ant Colony Michael DeForge

The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style

In the few short years since he began his pamphlet­size comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. His brash, confident, undulating artwork sent a shock wave through the comics world for its unique, fully formed aesthetic. With his debut Drawn & Quarterly title, Ant Colony, DeForge confirms his place as a mover and shaker in the world of graphic novels. From its opening pages, Ant Colony immerses the reader in a world that is darkly existential, with false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers, as it follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants. On the surface, it’s the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants’ all too familiar desire to rebuild. Underneath, though, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns—loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. All of this is done with humor and sensitivity, exposing a Drawn and Quarterly | 1/28/2014 world where spiders can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc with a single 9781770461376 | $21.95 Hardback | 112 pages gnash of their jaws. Illustrations Throughout | Carton Qty: 0 | DeForge’s striking visual sensibility—stark lines, dramatic color choices, 11.000 in W | 8.500 in H and brilliant use of page and panel space—stands out in this volume. 3 Photos

Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. After a few years of Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: D+Q experimenting with short strips and zines, he created Lose #1, his first full­length comic, which won Best Emerging Talent at the Doug Wright Awards. He has since published a handful of MARKETING comic books, which have received industry praise and two Eisner Award nominations. His illustrations have been published in The New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics l Select Author Appearances have appeared in Believer, Maisonneuve, Cold Heat, and the Adventure Time comic book l National Publicity series. l National Marketing Campaign

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81 DRAWN AND QUARTERLY | JANUARY 2014 Benson's Cuckoos Anouk Ricard; Translated from the French by Helge Dascher

Workplace stresses may prove killer in this off­the­rails office satire

Richard thinks he’s in luck when he snags a job at the cuckoo­clock factory, but things start to go wrong right off the bat. First of all there’s his boss, who doesn’t seem to have the strongest grip on reality and has an odd penchant for silly hats. Then there are his coworkers, who are alternately evasive and idiotic when asked about anything pertaining to actually getting work done. Finally there’s George, the employee Richard’s replacing, who supposedly quit but whose family has just appeared on national TV pleading for his safe return. It’s all adding up to a very strange workplace, and when the company goes on a COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS retreat, everything spools quickly out of control. From the author of Anna and Froga comes a wry, offbeat whodunnit that Drawn and Quarterly | 2/25/2014 centers on office life. Anouk Ricard’s subtle, sardonic humor undermines the 9781770461383 | $19.95 Paperback / softback | 96 pages characters’ desperate attempts to be taken seriously, as they bungle Illustrations Throughout | Carton Qty: 0 | 6.500 kidnappings, misunderstand social cues, and let petty disagreements become in W | 9.500 in H feuds. Ricard’s dim­witted characters aspire to deviousness but miss their mark, remaining firmly in the domain of slapstick. With cleverly observed Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: D+Q dialogue, charming artwork, and brilliantly over­the­top plotting, Benson’s Cuckoos will delight the adult fans of Ricard’s comics for kids. MARKETING

Anouk Ricard is an author, artist, and stop­motion animator who was born in the south of l National Publicity France. She began the Anna and Froga series in 2004. The book collections of the comic have l National Marketing Campaign received widespread acclaim, and Ricard has received multiple nominations for the Best Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. She lives in Lyon, France. ALSO AVAILABLE

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82 Paperback Original DRAWN AND QUARTERLY | FEBRUARY 2014 White Cube Brecht Vandenbroucke

With few words and gorgeous style, a cartoonist takes aim at the hypocrisies of the art world

White Cube is the Belgian cartoonist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke’s debut book, a collection of mostly wordless strips that follow a pair of pink­ faced twins as they attempt to understand contemporary art and the gallery world. Their reactions to the art they encounter are frequently comedic, as they paint over Pablo Picasso’s famous mural Guernica, and re­create a pixelated version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream after receiving one too many e­mails. Lushly painted, these irreverent strips poke fun at the staid, often smug art world, offering an absurdist view on the institutions of that world—questioning what constitutes art and what doesn’t, as well as how we decide what goes on the walls of the gallery and what doesn’t. Vandenbroucke’s distinctive work blends the highbrow with the low, drawing COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS equally from Gordon Matta­Clark’s site­specific artwork and the Three Stooges’ slapstick timing. With a knowing wink at the reader, Vandenbroucke Drawn and Quarterly | 3/4/2014 continuously uncovers something to laugh about in the stuffiness and 9781770461390 | $21.95 Hardback | 64 pages pretentiousness of the art world. Illustrations Throughout | Carton Qty: 0 | 9.000 in W | 12.000 in H Brecht Vandenbroucke is a Belgian cartoonist and illustrator. Since graduating from art 3 Photos school a few years ago, he has worked for numerous periodicals, including The New York Times, and has participated in group shows all over the world. His first solo exhibition took Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: D+Q place in February 2013.

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83 DRAWN AND QUARTERLY | MARCH 2014 Walt Before Skeezix Box Set Frank King; Designed and Edited by Chris Ware; Introduction by Jeet Heer

The prelude to the Walt and Skeezix series offers a portrait of a country in transition

Walt Before Skeezix collects the first years of Frank King’s beloved comic strip Gasoline Alley—one of the most widely read and syndicated strips of its time, which is still syndicated today. These comics, produced between 1919 and 1920, focus primarily on Walt Wallet and his friends as they engage with the then­novel automobile sensation that was sweeping the nation. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS This period of the newspaper strip is especially fascinating as a historical time capsule, charting a moment in America’s past when horses and buggies Drawn and Quarterly | 3/25/2014 shared the road with cars, and when the country was making the transition 9781770461413 | $44.95 Paperback / softback | 720 pages from rural farmers to urban, industrialized society. Illustrations Throughout | Carton Qty: 0 | 9.500 King was a pioneering American cartoonist who changed comics forever by in W | 7.000 in H setting his strip in contemporary America and having his characters age. These 3 Photos lavish volumes pay tribute to the evolution of his style and storytelling. Designed and edited by the world­renowned cartoonist Chris Ware (Building Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: D+Q Stories), Walt Before Skeezix includes a wide­ranging introductory essay from MARKETING the noted comics historian Jeet Heer, the coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, and an essay by Tim Samuelson, the cultural historian for the city of Chicago, about how Chicago’s history is reflected in l National Publicity l National Marketing Campaign King’s newspaper strip.

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“Frank King’s Gasoline Alley may be the best syndicated comic strip ever. Walt and Skeezix lovingly collects two years’ worth of the strip.” —Playboy

“There is a lovely, often wrenching gravity to the strip. King knows how humans as well as cars work, especially toddlers.” —The New York Times Book Review

84 Boxed Set DRAWN AND QUARTERLY | MARCH 2014 Index

Age of the Image, The: Redefining Literacy in a World of Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Screens; Stephen Apkon...... 51 Arab/Israeli Conflict; John B. Judis...... 15 Alexander, Amir; Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Genius of Earth Day, The: How a 1970 Teach-In Theory Shaped the Modern World...... 59 Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation; Adam All at Once: Prose Poems; C. K. Williams...... 27 Rome...... 53 American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light; Iain Gevisser, Mark; Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir . Sinclair...... 64 ...... 25 Annihilation: A Novel; Jeff VanderMeer...... 36 Glyph: A Novel; Percival Everett...... 75 Anselme, Daniel; On Leave: A Novel...... 62 Goldacre, Ben; Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Ant Colony; Michael DeForge...... 81 Doctors and Harm Patients...... 66 Anthes, Emily; Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Goudsouzian, Aram; Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Brave New Beasts...... 60 Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear...... 16 Apkon, Stephen; The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in Grand, David; Mount Terminus: A Novel...... 20 a World of Screens...... 51 Great American Documents: Volume 1, The: Prologues of Apple Tree Yard: A Novel; Louise Doughty...... 4 Promise, 1620-1830; Ruth Ashby...... 54, 55 Ashbery, John; Collected French Translations: Poetry...... 31 Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, The: A Memoir; Ashbery, John; Collected French Translations: Prose...... 32 Justin Hocking...... 74 Ashby, Ruth; The Great American Documents: Volume 1: Gura, Philip F.; Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the Prologues of Promise, 1620-1830...... 54, 55 American Novel...... 52 Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford; William Hand, David J.; The Improbability Principle: Why Stafford...... 76 Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day . Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and ...... 57 Harm Patients; Ben Goldacre...... 66 Heivoll, Gaute; Before I Burn: A Novel...... 70 Ball, Edward; Slaves in the Family...... 44 Hensher, Philip; Scenes from Early Life: A Novel...... 65 Beah, Ishmael; Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel...... 2 Hirata, Andrea; The Rainbow Troops: A Novel...... 41 Bees, The: Poems; Carol Ann Duffy...... 68 Hocking, Justin; The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Before I Burn: A Novel; Gaute Heivoll...... 70 Memoir...... 74 Benson's Cuckoos; Anouk Ricard...... 82 Hotel Florida: Love and Death in Spain, 1936-1939; Amanda Vaill...... 28 Blume, Mary; The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World...... 40 How to Dance as the Roof Caves In: Poems; Nick Lantz . . . Can't and Won't: Stories; Lydia Davis...... 26 ...... 79 Caribou: Poems; Charles Wright...... 21 Huneven, Michelle; Off Course: A Novel...... 30 City of Angels: or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / A Novel; Hussey, Andrew; The French Intifada: The Long War Between Christa Wolf...... 42 France and Its Arabs...... 63 Collected French Translations: Poetry; John Ashbery. . . . 31 Hustad, Megan; More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments...... 17 Collected French Translations: Prose; John Ashbery. . . . 32 I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Constellations: A Play; Nick Payne...... 69 Contemporary Afghanistan...... 34 Corbett, Gavin; This Is the Way: A Novel...... 67 Improbability Principle, The: Why Coincidences, Miracles, Curdy, Averill; Song & Error: Poems...... 50 and Rare Events Happen Every Day; David J. Hand...... 57 Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe; Simon In the Light of What We Know: A Novel; Zia Haider Rahman Winder...... 8 ...... 18 Davis, Lydia; Can't and Won't: Stories...... 26 Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Decoded: A Novel; Mai Jia...... 10 Shaped the Modern World; Amir Alexander...... 59 DeForge, Michael; Ant Colony...... 81 Jamison, Leslie; The Empathy Exams: Essays...... 71 Directing Herbert White: Poems; James Franco...... 77 Judis, John B.; Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Doughty, Louise; Apple Tree Yard: A Novel...... 4 Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict...... 15 Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Karate Chop: Stories; Dorthe Nors...... 73 the Meredith March Against Fear; Aram Goudsouzian. . . . 16 Kincaid, Jamaica; See Now Then: A Novel...... 43 Duffy, Carol Ann; The Bees: Poems...... 68 King, Frank; Walt Before Skeezix: Box Set...... 84 Earth Avails, The: Poems; Mark Wunderlich...... 78 Lantz, Nick; How to Dance as the Roof Caves In: Poems. . . 79 Empathy Exams, The: Essays; Leslie Jamison...... 71 Lesser, Wendy; Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books . Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the ...... 5 Mandan People; Elizabeth A. Fenn...... 56 Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir; Mark Enia, Davide; On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel...... 19 Gevisser...... 25 Everett, Percival; Glyph: A Novel...... 75 Maazel, Fiona; Woke Up Lonely: A Novel...... 72 Fenn, Elizabeth A.; Encounters at the Heart of the World: A Mackrell, Judith; Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous History of the Mandan People...... 56 Generation...... 3 Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation; Judith Mai Jia; Decoded: A Novel...... 10 Mackrell...... 3 Marshlands: A Novel; Matthew Olshan...... 11 Franco, James; Directing Herbert White: Poems...... 77 Master of Us All, The: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New World; Mary Blume...... 40 Beasts; Emily Anthes...... 60 Mayer, John D.; Personal Intelligence: The Power of French Intifada, The: The Long War Between France and Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives...... 58 Its Arabs; Andrew Hussey...... 63 McLane, Maureen N.; This Blue: Poems...... 33 MFA vs. NYC: How (Not) to Make a Living as a Writer. . . 61 Mohamed, Nadifa; The Orchard of Lost Souls: A Novel. . . . . 23 Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments; Germany; Yascha Mounk...... 6 Megan Hustad...... 17 Talking to Ourselves: A Novel; Andrés Neuman...... 29 Morris, Ian; War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Tastemaker, The: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots...... 22 Modern America; Edward White...... 9 Mounk, Yascha; Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family Theroux, Marcel; Strange Bodies: A Novel...... 13 in Modern Germany...... 6 This Blue: Poems; Maureen N. McLane...... 33 Mount Terminus: A Novel; David Grand...... 20 This Is the Way: A Novel; Gavin Corbett...... 67 My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer; Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel; Christian Wiman...... 47 Philip F. Gura...... 52 Nagle, Robin; Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Vaill, Amanda; Hotel Florida: Love and Death in Spain, Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City...... 45 1936-1939...... 28 Neuman, Andrés; Talking to Ourselves: A Novel...... 29 Vandenbroucke, Brecht; White Cube...... 83 Nors, Dorthe; Karate Chop: Stories...... 73 VanderMeer, Jeff; Annihilation: A Novel...... 36 Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices of the Internet Villalobos, Juan Pablo; Quesadillas: A Novel...... 37 Underground; Emily Parker...... 14 Walcott, Derek; O Starry Starry Night: A Play...... 38 O Starry Starry Night: A Play; Derek Walcott...... 38 Walcott, Derek; The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013. . . . . 7 Obomsawin, Diane; On Loving Women...... 80 Walt Before Skeezix: Box Set; Frank King...... 84 Off Course: A Novel; Michelle Huneven...... 30 War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Olshan, Matthew; Marshlands: A Novel...... 11 Civilization from Primates to Robots; Ian Morris...... 22 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel; Davide Enia...... 19 Ways of Going Home: A Novel; Alejandro Zambra...... 39 On Leave: A Novel; Daniel Anselme...... 62 White Cube; Brecht Vandenbroucke...... 83 On Loving Women; Diane Obomsawin...... 80 White, Edward; The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Orchard of Lost Souls, The: A Novel; Nadifa Mohamed . . . . Birth of Modern America...... 9 ...... 23 Whitelock, Anna; The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Other Side of the Tiber, The: Reflections on Time in Italy; Elizabeth's Court...... 12 Wallis Wilde-Menozzi...... 49 Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books; Wendy Lesser Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the ...... 5 Time; Brigid Schulte...... 24 Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis; The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections Pacifico, Francesco; The Story of My Purity: A Novel...... 46 on Time in Italy...... 49 Parker, Emily; Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices of Williams, C. K.; All at Once: Prose Poems...... 27 the Internet Underground...... 14 Wiman, Christian; My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Payne, Nick; Constellations: A Play...... 69 Believer...... 47 Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Winder, Simon; Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Shapes Our Lives; John D. Mayer...... 58 Europe...... 8 Phillips, Carl; Silverchest: Poems...... 48 Woke Up Lonely: A Novel; Fiona Maazel...... 72 Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Wolf, Christa; City of Angels: or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / A Sanitation Workers of New York City; Robin Nagle...... 45 Novel...... 42 Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013, The; Derek Walcott. . . 7 Wright, Charles; Caribou: Poems...... 21 Queen's Bed, The: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court Wunderlich, Mark; The Earth Avails: Poems...... 78 ; Anna Whitelock...... 12 Zambra, Alejandro; Ways of Going Home: A Novel...... 39 Quesadillas: A Novel; Juan Pablo Villalobos...... 37 Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel; Ishmael Beah...... 2 Rahman, Zia Haider; In the Light of What We Know: A Novel ...... 18 Rainbow Troops, The: A Novel; Andrea Hirata...... 41 Reece, Spencer; The Road to Emmaus: Poems...... 35 Ricard, Anouk; Benson's Cuckoos...... 82 Road to Emmaus, The: Poems; Spencer Reece...... 35 Rome, Adam; The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation...... 53 Scenes from Early Life: A Novel; Philip Hensher...... 65 Schulte, Brigid; Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time...... 24 See Now Then: A Novel; Jamaica Kincaid...... 43 Silverchest: Poems; Carl Phillips...... 48 Sinclair, Iain; American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light...... 64 Slaves in the Family; Edward Ball...... 44 Song & Error: Poems; Averill Curdy...... 50 Stafford, William; Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford...... 76 Story of My Purity, The: A Novel; Francesco Pacifico. . . . . 46 Strange Bodies: A Novel; Marcel Theroux...... 13