HENRY HOLT AND CO. SEPTEMBER 2021
Misfits A Personal Manifesto
Michaela Coel
A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life
In this sensational, agenda-setting debut, Michaela Coel, BAFTA-winning actor and writer of breakout series I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum, makes a compelling case for radical honesty.
Drawing on her unflinching Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture, Misfits recounts deeply personal anecdotes from Coel’s life and work to argue for greater SELF-HELP / MOTIVATIONAL & transparency. With insight and wit, it lays bare her journey to reclaiming her INSPIRATIONAL creativity and power, inviting readers to reflect on theirs. Henry Holt and Co. | 9/7/2021 9781250843449 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 128 pages | Carton Advocating for “misfits” everywhere, this timely, necessary book is a rousing Qty: 36 and bold case against fitting in. 7.5 in H | 5 in W tk illustrations t/o; printed ends Michaela Coel is the creator of the hit TV shows Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. She is a Subrights: Audio, 1st: Holt BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild, and NAACP prize–winning actor, Trans, Brit, Dram: Penguin Random House UK screenwriter, and director. In 2020, she was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and British Vogue’s 2020 Most Influential Women lists. Misfits is her first book. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250843456 Audio ISBN: 9781250845214
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Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty
#1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty is back with a novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves. Apples Never Fall is the work of a wri...
The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .
If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?
This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. FICTION / WOMEN Henry Holt and Co. | 9/14/2021 9781250220257 | $28.99 / $35.99 Can. The Delaney family is a communal foundation. Stan and Joy are the envy of all Hardcover with dust jacket | 480 pages | Carton of their friends. They’re killer on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is Qty: 16 palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they’ve finally sold their famed tennis 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W colored ends academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are they so miserable? Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Holt British, translation, dramatic: TBG Literary The four Delaney children—Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke—were tennis stars Other Available Formats: in their own right, yet as their father will tell you, none of them had what it took Ebook ISBN: 9781250220264 Audio ISBN: 9781250810694 to go all the way. But that’s okay, now that they’re all successful grown-ups. Audio ISBN: 9781250810700 Well, that depends on how you define success. No one in the family can really tell you what Troy does, but based on his fancy car and expensive apartment, he seems to do it very well, even if he blew up his perfect marriage. Logan is happy with his routine as a community college professor, but his family finds it easier to communicate with his lovely girlfriend than him. Amy, the eldest, can’t seem to hold down a job or even a lease, but leave it to Brooke, the baby of the family, to be the rock-steady one who is married with a new solo physiotherapy practice . . . which will take ...
Liane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, and Truly Madly Guilty; the New York Times bestsellers Nine Perfect Strangers, What Alice Forgot, and The Last Anniversary; The Hypnotist’s Love Story; and Three Wishes. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.
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Tinderbox HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers
James Andrew Miller
From the New York Times bestselling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun comes the unvarnished, comprehensive, and astonishing history of HBO, told for the first time through the disruptors who ...
The exclusive story of HBO’s key creators, executives, actors, and directors gives readers an unprecedented peek behind the curtain at the founding and triumph of the first “pay-channel” that brought America The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession, and countless groundbreaking, culture-shifting shows. James Andrew Miller collects insider accounts of the humble beginnings, devastating BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / INDUSTRIES / MEDIA & missteps, controversial business decisions, and, of course, backstage drama and COMMUNICATIONS celebrity gossip from the set. Henry Holt and Co. | 11/16/2021 9781250624017 | $32.99 / $44.99 Can. Since televisions entered Americans’ living rooms, the question of whether Hardcover with dust jacket | 704 pages | Carton Qty: 16 programming should be “free”—paid for with advertising—has loomed, to the 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W extent that some broadcasters, lobbyists, and fearmongers warned someone 2 16-pg. color inserts would come along and disrupt their Madison Avenue–championed business Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Holt model. But who would pay for something that had always been free? Home Box brit, trans, dram: WME Office dared to ask that question in 1972, opening the doors for other pay-channels and ultimately the streaming platforms that are now the norm. They Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250623997 created different, better content—or at least they convinced viewers that different Audio ISBN: 9781250807908 was better. HBO gave us violent scenes with blood and guts, shows like Tales from the Crypt that were actually scary, rom-coms with sex instead of suggestion. We take their big-budget, “prestige” TV for granted now, but their success was MARKETING far from assured at the outset. National print and digital review and feature attention HBO’s audacity built the viewing culture we have today and perma... National broadcast attention Targeted online display advertising Targeted keyword search advertising PRAISE Extensive blog and social media outreach Library marketing Praise for Live from New York
“Constantly entertaining . . . It’s revealing, it’s funny, it’s mesmerizing.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A guilty pleasure of the highest order . . . Live from New York shines.”—Lev Grossman, Time
“A sharp-clawed, incisive account of how nearly three decades' worth of comic talent has emerged from a single television show.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
James Andrew Miller is an award-winning journalist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN; Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency; Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of
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The Raging 2020s Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
Alec Ross
In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business.
For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / CORPORATE & BUSINESS As the market consolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress HISTORY have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations, Henry Holt and Co. | 9/14/2021 9781250770929 | $28.99 / $38.50 Can. and with the government bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and partisan Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton wars, people look to nimble, powerful firms to solve societal problems—and to Qty: 20 be our moral standard-bearers. As Walter Isaacson said about Ross’s first book, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W “The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather Subrights: World Rights: Holt than frightening.”
Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250770936 Audio ISBN: 9781250818980 Through interviews with the world’s most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Ross proposes a new social MARKETING contract—one that resets the equilibrium between corporations, the governing, Author appearances and the governed. National print and digital review and feature attention National broadcast attention PRAISE Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews Op-ed campaign Praise for The Industries of the Future Targeted online display advertising Targeted keyword search advertising “A fascinating vision of the future of industry. The Industries of the Future reads like Extensive blog and social media outreach Early reader review campaign including a portable TED conference at which you have been seated next to the smartest guy NetGalley in the room. The book is filled with glimpses of cutting edge biotech research, Library marketing statecraft, and entrepreneurship. Ross writes engagingly, and the book should be Academic marketing Advance Reader's Edition compelling whether you follow these fields closely or you still think of Honda as a car rather than a robotics company.” —Forbes
“A lucid and informed guide, even on the most technical issues.” —Financial Times
Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. Author of New York Times bestselling The Industries of the Future, he is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bologna Business School and a board partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm. He was a distinguished senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secreta... 5 HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2021
My Monticello Fiction
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on...
Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN & BLACK and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a Henry Holt and Co. | 10/5/2021 desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental 9781250807151 | $26.99 / $36.99 Can. unravelling within the nation. Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 24 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university colored ends professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Holt British, translation, dramatic: DeFiore and Co. birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault Other Available Formats: in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek Ebook ISBN: 9781250807168 Audio ISBN: 9781250820716 out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian Audio ISBN: 9781250820723 widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who MARKETING seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.” Author appearances National print and digital review and United by these characters’ r... feature attention National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews PRAISE Op-ed campaign Major national digital advertising campaign “It is a rare breed of writer who can tell any kind of story and do so with exquisite Goodreads advertising and promotion deftness. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is one such writer. Her debut collection, My Targeted online display advertising Multi-wave social media advertising Monticello, is comprised of six stories of astonishing range and each one explores Targeted keyword search advertising what it means to live in a world that is at once home and not. She dissects the Extensive blog and social media outreach unbearable burdens of such displacement. The crowning glory of this collection is Book club and influencer outreach with Reading Group Guide the title story, a novella about a world that has fallen apart and a small band of Social media influencer campaign with people who take refuge in Monticello, among the old ghosts of the former plantation, galley giveaway sweepsta... how they become family, and how they try to make a stand for their lives,...
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Burning Boy The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Paul Auster
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from / LITERARY FIGURES one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty Henry Holt and Co. | 10/26/2021 9781250235831 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the Hardcover with dust jacket | 800 pages | Carton New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles Qty: 12 him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 42 b/w photos t/o girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he Subrights: Audio: Holt withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and 1st serial, British, translation, dramatic: Carol Mann Agency then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250235848 Audio ISBN: 9781250823762 In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic MARKETING Author appearances biography of a brilliant writer as o... National print and digital review and feature attention National broadcast attention PRAISE Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews "Paul Auster calls Stephen Crane 'The Burning Boy,' and Crane’s passions burn Op-ed campaign Major national digital advertising campaign incandescently in this exceptional biography of a prodigy whose life was cut Targeted keyword search advertising tragically short. It represents a rare literary match—a visceral affinity—between a Indie bookseller promotional campaign with biographer and a subject, both masters of modern fiction. And one reads it in the early galley mailing Early reader review campaign including same white heat.” NetGalley —Judith Thurman Library marketing Academic marketing Advance Reader's Edition "Paul Auster’s all-in obsessive engagement with the 19th century Bad Boy of American literature, Stephen Crane, is brilliant and beautiful. Auster's mastery of the historical context, his writerly, troubled, imaginative insights into Crane’s character and the analysis of the works, all superb. An...
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and the New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He has also 7 HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2021
From Warsaw with Love Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
John Pomfret
From the award-winning and acclaimed author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, From Warsaw with Love tells the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with...
In 1990, soon after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who’d battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad. As the U.S. cobbled together a coalition to undo Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the CIA asked the Polish government for help. The American officers held HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 20TH CENTURY valuable intelligence that, if discovered by Saddam, could have spelled ruin for Henry Holt and Co. | 10/26/2021 Desert Storm. 9781250296054 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton John Pomfret’s gripping account of the cliffhanger in Iraq is just the beginning of Qty: 24 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W a saga about intelligence cooperation between Poland and America, cooperation 1 interior map that a CIA director would describe as “one of the two foremost intelligence relationships that the United States has ever had.” Poland’s ex-communist spies Subrights: 1st serial, audio, British, translation: Holt snooped for America from Havana to Moscow, Pyongyang to Tehran. Pomfret Dramatic: Ross Yoon Agency also reveals shocking details about the CIA’s “black site” program that held suspected terrorists in Poland after 9/11 as well the role of Polish spies in the Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250296061 hunt for Osama bin Laden.
As the U.S. teeters on the edge of a new cold war with Russia and China,
MARKETING Pomfret explores these little-known events as a reminder of the challenges and National print and digital review and importance of alliances in a dangerous world. feature attention National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews PRAISE Op-ed campaign “[An] absorbing new book . . . [Pomfret] weaves a lively tale, peppered with a cast of Targeted online display advertising Targeted keyword search advertising adventurers, spies, preachers, communists, and McCarthyites who have boosted and Early reader review campaign including sabotaged the relationship in turn over the years.” NetGalley —The Economist Library marketing Academic marketing Advance Reader's Edition “The book is particularly timely because it takes readers on a grand, historic adventure that shows [a] [BJ1] cyclical love-hate relationship, when current politicians in both countries are sometimes fond of focusing on the hate. . . . [It] fleshes out the dual United States–China narrative through stories of people, without losing sight of the larger context. . . . Well-researched.” —NPR.org
John Pomfret, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, served as a correspondent for the Washington Post for two decades, covering wars, revolutions, and China. His most recent book, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, won the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, he lives with his wife and three children in Berkeley, CA.
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Glitter Every Day 365 Quotes from Women I Love
Andy Cohen
From New York Times bestselling author and host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live Andy Cohen, a quote-a-day collection from divas, housewives, and larger-than-life celebs that will inspire and b...
Andy Cohen has made a career, and a life, out of making the ordinary extraordinary. In Glitter Every Day, Andy gathers his most loved, laughed at, and needed words of daily inspiration, affirmation, and (just enough) intoxication to make any ordinary day shine bright. SELF-HELP / MOTIVATIONAL & INSPIRATIONAL Henry Holt and Co. | 11/2/2021 Whether it's Cher telling us, "The better I look, the better gay men feel" (yep!), or 9781250832399 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Sonja Morgan reminding us age is truly just a number with "It wasn't a walk of Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages shame. It was a victory lap at my age," each bit of Glitter Every Day will infuse 7.5 in H | 5.9 in W 2/c text; colored ends your day with a laugh, a pep talk, and a shot(ski) of fun. Alongside these 365 curated sayings and quotes, Andy writes about the people and experiences that Subrights: 1st, Audio, Brit, Trans: Holt have made him live one of the most over-the-top, joyous, and exciting lives that Dram: Loeb & Loeb LLP any little boy growing up in St. Louis could dream of. And like Andy himself, Other Available Formats: this collection is irresistible. Ebook ISBN: 9781250832405 Glitter Every Day reminds us all to take time to appreciate the fun in life as only Andy can. So, pour a drink, put on your heels, and always remember to let yourself shine.
Andy Cohen is the author of three New York Times bestselling books, beginning with Most Talkative. He is the host and executive producer of Watch What Happens Live, Bravo's late-night, interactive talk show. He also serves as executive producer of the Real Housewives franchise and hosts the network's highly rated reunion specials. He's won an Emmy and two Peabody Awards for his work, and he lives in New York City.
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Too Famous The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned
Michael Wolff
The bestselling author of Fire and Fury is once again coming for some of the largest power brokers in America as he brings to light their lives, careers, and always equivocal end games.
Through these brilliant and biting profiles, Michael Wolff, the man Kurt Andersen once lauded as a “vivid, New Journalistic, fiction-like writer who calls a spade a spade,” crafts a mesmerizing portrait of the hubris, overreach, and frequent destruction by major public figures from the Clinton years through the Trump years. This is an examination of how the quest for fame and notoriety BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY became the driving force of culture and politics, the drug that alters all public / RICH & FAMOUS personalities. And how their need, their desperation, their ruthlessness became Henry Holt and Co. | 10/19/2021 9781250147622 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can. the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 This collection includes Wolff’s dynamic coverage of Rupert Murdoch, Andrew 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Cuomo, Martha Stewart, Michael Bloomberg, Tina Brown, and Roger Ailes, to Subrights: Audio:Holt list a few, as well as new and unreleased articles about Jeffrey Epstein, Rudy 1st serial, British, translation, dramatic: Wylie Giuliani, Jared Kushner, Ronan Farrow and more. A singular figure in the media, Other Available Formats: this is a reminder, as Michelle Cottle once put it, that Wolff's “quick wit, dizzying Ebook ISBN: 9781250147639 writing style, and willingness to say absolutely anything about anybody made his column a must-read."
If you can judge a book by its enemies, then this is a must-read.
Michael Wolff is the author of Fire and Fury, the top-selling book about the Trump White House, and its sequel, Siege. His six other books include his biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, and his memoir of the early internet years, Burn Rate. He has been a regular columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, the Guardian, and USA Today, and, as well, written for a wide variety of other magazines and newspapers. He is the winner of two Natio...
10 HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2021
Age of Cage Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career
Keith Phipps
“Through the cracked prism of Nicolas Cage, Phipps shows us not only what makes Tinseltown's last big-screen iconoclast tick, but also the ways that the movie business has changed (for better a...
Nicolas Cage has been called a lot of things. Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Has-Been. Genius. Love him, or laugh at him, one thing is certain: you’ve seen one of his nearly 100 films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really?
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Critic and journalist Keith Phipps draws a portrait of the enigmatic icon by / ENTERTAINMENT & looking at, what else?, Cage’s expansive filmography. As Phipps charts Cage’s PERFORMING ARTS Henry Holt and Co. | 10/19/2021 films, Age of Cage also chronicles the transformation of Hollywood, from the 9781250773043 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. teen comedies of the 1980s (Peggy Sue Got Married and Valley Girl), to the indie Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton and blockbuster scene of the 1990s (Moonstruck, Face/Off, Wild at Heart), Qty: 24 through the video-on-demand world of today. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W 1 8-pg. 4/c insert Sweeping in scope and intimate in its portrait of a fiercely passionate man and Subrights: British, 1st ser., audio: Holt artist, Age of Cage is, like the man himself, surprising, insightful, funny, and one translation, Dramatic: Foundry Media of a kind. So, snap out of it, and enjoy this appreciation of Nicolas Cage, a Other Available Formats: national treasure. Ebook ISBN: 9781250773036
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How We Can Win Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Kimberly Jones
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”
“So if I played 400 rounds of monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?”
SOCIAL SCIENCE / ETHNIC How We Can Win will expand upon statements Kimberly Jones made in a viral STUDIES / AMERICAN video posted in June 2020 following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Henry Holt and Co. | 11/16/2021 9781250805126 | $22.99 / $31.99 Can. police. Through her personal experience, observations, and Monopoly analogy, Hardcover with dust jacket | 128 pages | Carton she illuminates the economic disparities Black Americans have faced for Qty: 36 generations and offers ways to fight against a system that is still rigged. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: Brit, trans, 1st serial, audio: Holt Kimberly Jones is a former bookseller, and now she hosts the Atlanta chapter of the popular dram: LCS Literary Services Well-Read Black Girl book club. She has worked in film and television with trailblazing figures such as Tyler Perry, Whitney Houston, and 8Ball & MJG. Currently, in addition to writing YA Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250805133 novels, she is a director of feature films and cutting-edge diverse web series. She also regularly Audio ISBN: 9781250807403 lectures on working and succeeding in the Atlanta film market. Her first book, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, came out i...
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The End of Bias: A Beginning The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Jessica Nordell
"Despite revolutions in our understanding of bias, we’re still much better at documenting the problem than solving it. When it comes to prevention and cure, Jessica Nordell’s powerful book is a b...
Implicit bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, we see it in finance, and as we know from the police killings of so many Black Americans, bias can be deadly. But are we able to step beyond recognition of our prejudice to actually change it? SOCIAL SCIENCE / DISCRIMINATION Metropolitan Books | 9/21/2021 With fifteen years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell digs deep into the 9781250186188 | $28.99 / $38.99 Can. cognitive science, social psychology, and developmental research that underpin Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton current efforts to eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination. She examines Qty: 20 diversity training, deployed across the land as a corrective but with inconsistent 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 4 b/w charts t/o results. She explores what works and why: the diagnostic checklist used by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital that eliminated disparate treatment of men and Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Holt British, translation, dramatic: Elyse Cheney women in disease prevention; the preschool in Sweden where teachers found ingenious ways to uproot gender stereotyping: the police unit in Oregon where Other Available Formats: the practice of mindfulness and specialized training has coincided with a startling Ebook ISBN: 9781250186171 Audio ISBN: 9781250755490 drop in the use of force.
The End of Bias: A Beginning brings good news: Biased behavior can change; the approaches outlined here can transform ourselves and our world. MARKETING Author Appearances National Online and Print Review and PRAISE Feature Attention National Media Attention Advance Praise for The End of Bias: A Beginning National Digital Advertising Campaign Social Media Influencer Campaign Targeted Email Marketing Campaign "With state-of-the-art science and gripping narratives, Jessica Nordell reveals what Library Marketing concrete steps individuals, groups, and institutions can take to fight prejudice." Academic Marketing Campaign —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of Advance Reader's Edition the TED podcast WorkLife
Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist who has been covering unconscious bias and its antidotes for fifteen years. Her essays and reporting on the subject have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Washington Post, and many other publications. Educated at MIT and Harvard in physics, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison in poetry, she is a former writer and radio producer for American Public Media. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The End of Bias...
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jeffrey Veidlinger
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust. No history of that Jewish catastrophe comes close to the virtuosity of rese...
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine and Poland by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. HISTORY / JEWISH Metropolitan Books | 10/12/2021 Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and 9781250116253 | $35.00 international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were Hardcover with dust jacket | 480 pages | Carton in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions Qty: 16 would come true. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 50 illustrations t/o, 10 interior maps, printed ends Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed Subrights: 1st serial, audio, British, translation: Holt historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal Dramatic: Trident Media Group violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors,
Other Available Formats: perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many Ebook ISBN: 9781250116260 different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an Audio ISBN: 9781250791894 acceptable response to their various problems. In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. MARKETING Author appearances PRAISE National print and digital review and featureattention Praise for The Moscow State Yiddish Theater National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews Op-ed campaign “A fascinating and little-known piece of history . . . Veidlinger distills a remarkable Targeted online display advertising amount of research into a pithy, well-turned account.” Targeted keyword search advertising Early reader review campaign including —Publishers Weekly NetGalley Library marketing “Richly researched and observed . . . Veidlinger is good both at delineating the Academic marketing Advance Reader’s Edition suspicious, tactical relationship between artists and ideologues that characterized Soviet culture and in framing the question of what constitutes a people’s culture, which haunted this nation for more than a century.” —Choice
Jeffrey Veidlinger is a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan and the director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His books, which include The Moscow State Yiddish Theater and In the Shadow of the Shtetl, have won a National Jewish Book Award, the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre Scholarship, two Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and the J. I. Segal Award. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Smahtguy The Life and Times of Barney Frank
Eric Orner
Eric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel—...
What are the odds that a disheveled, zaftig, closeted kid with the thickest of Jersey accents might wind up running Boston on behalf of a storied Irish Catholic political machine, drafting the nation’s first gay rights laws, reforming Wall COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Street after the Great Recession, and finding love, after a lifetime assuming that NONFICTION / BIOGRAPHY & he couldn't and wouldn’t? MEMOIR Metropolitan Books | 11/2/2021 In Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, America’s first out member of 9781250191588 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can. Paperback - with flaps | 224 pages | Carton Qty: Congress and gay and civil rights crusader for an era is confirmed as a hero of 16 our age. But more than a biography of an indispensable LGBTQ pioneer, this 10.5 in H | 7.4 in W funny, beautifully rendered, warts-and-all graphic account reveals the Subrights: 1st serial, audio:Holt down-and-dirty inner workings of Boston and DC politics. British, translation, dramatic: Massie & McQuilkin As Frank’s longtime staff counsel and press secretary, Eric Orner lends his first-hand perspective to this extraordinary work of history, paying tribute to the mighty striving of committed liberals to defend ordinary Americans from an MARKETING assault on their shared society. Author Events National Online and Print Review Attention PRAISE National Online and Print Feature Attention National Broadcast Attention Including "Smahtguy restored my battered faith in the American political process. Barney Podcasts Digital Advertising Campaign Frank’s relish for the thankless work of governance is deeply inspiring, all the more Targeted Email Marketing so because it came at the expense of his personal life. Orner’s masterful visual Targeted Graphic Novel Marketing storytelling, inexhaustible graphic detail, and witty vignettes makes all the Social Media Influencer and Blogger Outreach procedural nitty gritty read like a thriller." Library Marketing —Alison Bechdel, author of The Secret to Superhuman Strength Academic Marketing Advance Reader’s Edition (e) "Smahtguy is the story of Barney Frank but also the story of the transformation of America. Eric Orner’s cartooning captures both the frenetic energy of Frank’s times and the person he was: a young man willing to work fo...
Eric Orner is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and the acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, one of the country’s most popular and longest- running gay comic strips. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New Republic. His cartoon story “Weekends Abroad” was in...
15 METROPOLITAN BOOKS OCTOBER 2021
Sunbelt Blues The Failure of American Housing
Andrew Ross
An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's backyard
Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. The single worst place in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida.
Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola SOCIAL SCIENCE / POVERTY & has become a site of shocking contrasts. At one end, absentee investors snatch up HOMELESSNESS foreclosed properties to turn into extravagant vacation homes for affluent visitors, Metropolitan Books | 10/12/2021 9781250804228 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. destroying affordable housing in the process. At the other, underpaid theme park Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton workers, displaced families, and disabled and elderly people subsisting on Qty: 24 government checks are technically homeless, living crammed into dilapidated, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 2 interior maps; photos t/o (chapter openers) roach-infested motels or even in tent camps in the woods.
Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Metropolitan Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting British, translation, dramatic: Elyse Cheney Literary Associates central Florida, renowned sociologist Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America’s suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer Other Available Formats: ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism. As millions of renters face down evictions Ebook ISBN: 9781250804235 Audio ISBN: 9781250823786 and foreclosures in the midst of the COVID-19 recession, Andrew Ross reveals how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe. Immersive and compassionate, Sunbelt Blues finds in Osceola County a bellwether for the future of homeless... MARKETING Author appearances National print and digital review and PRAISE feature attention Praise for The Celebration Chronicles National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews Op-ed campaign “Entertaining . . . Insightful . . . Ross is a raconteur with delicious—and telling Targeted online display advertising —anecdotes.” Multi-wave social media advertising —The New York Times Book Review Targeted keyword search advertising Indie bookseller promotional campaign with early “Adroit . . . An astute look at a notable, if in some respects surreal, experiment in galley mailing community building.” Early reader review campaign including NetGalley —Publishers Weekly Library marketing Academic marketing Advance Reader's Edition “Our first astronaut-in-residence on Planet Disney returns with astonishing tales of its strange life-forms and customs. As an explorer of brave new worlds, Ross is a shrewd cross between Jonathan Swift and C. Wright Mills.” —Mike Davis
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and a social activist. A contributor to the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Nation, he is the author of 16 METROPOLITAN BOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
My Body
Emily Ratajkowski
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time
Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book.
My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, SOCIAL SCIENCE / POPULAR of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that CULTURE treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while Metropolitan Books | 11/2/2021 investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession 9781250817860 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages | Carton with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion Qty: 24 and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
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Other Available Formats: Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer. She has starred in David Ebook ISBN: 9781250817877 Fincher’s Gone Girl, among other films. Ratajkowski has also appeared on the covers of multiple Audio ISBN: 9781250825612 magazines and walked the runway for numerous high fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York magazine, “Buying Myself Back,” garnered over one million views within twenty-four hours, was hailed as a landmark, and was the magazine’s most-read piece of the year. My Body is her first book. MARKETING Author appearances National print and digital review and feature attention National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews Op-ed campaign Major national digital advertising campaign Goodreads advertising and promotion Targeted online display advertising Multi-wave social media advertising Targeted keyword search advertising Extensive blog and social media outreach Book club and influencer outreach with Reading Group Guide Social media influencer campaign with galley giveaway sweepstak...
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On Consolation Finding Solace in Dark Times
Michael Ignatieff
Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned ...
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious PHILOSOPHY / ETHICS & MORAL PHILOSOPHY texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in Metropolitan Books | 11/9/2021 science, ideology, and the therapeutic. 9780805055214 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 lb Wt lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the Subrights: US only; electronic, audio, 1st serial, books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo 2nd serial: Metropolitan UK: Random House UK Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and Other Available Formats: resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to Ebook ISBN: 9781250810083 Audio ISBN: 9781250830791 confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century. MARKETING Author appearances National print and digital review and PRAISE feature attention National broadcast attention "It is at once illuminating, moving and itself consoling, to follow Michael Ignatieff as Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews he searches for moments of consolation across the centuries. More often than not, he Op-ed campaign Targeted online display advertising finds these moments not where one would most expect them but in surprising Targeted keyword search advertising places—in the failure of Cicero’s stoicism; in Marcus Aurelius’ sleepless nights, in Extensive blog and social media outreach Boethius’ odd flash of bleak comedy, in the illusory dreams of Karl and Jenny Indie bookseller promotional campaign with early galley mailing Marx. And with resolute honesty Ignatieff follows the search into his own inner life, Early reader review campaign including grappling, as we all must do, with failure, loss, and death." NetGalley —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Library marketing Academic marketing Advance Reader’s Edition Praise for The Wa...
Michael Ignatieff is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior’s Honor, as well as sixteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album and the Booker finalist novel Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Fresh Air and Fareed Zakariah GPS. Former head of Canada’s Liberal Party and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Ha...
18 METROPOLITAN BOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
The Radical Potter The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood
Tristram Hunt
From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, an...
Wedgwood pottery, such as the celebrated blue of Jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it, and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the PHOTOGRAPHERS Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a tireless scientific Metropolitan Books | 11/9/2021 experimenter, a cultural tastemaker, and an ardent abolitionist. And he did it all in 9781250128348 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can. the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W three 8-page color inserts As acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Subrights: 1st serial, audio: Holt Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, Brit, trans, dram:Georgina Capel Associates creative entrepreneur who personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250128355 documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.
MARKETING Tristram Hunt is the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum and one of Britain’s best-known National print and digital review and historians. His previous books, which include Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the feature Creation of the Urban World and Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, attention have been published in more than a dozen languages. Until taking on the leadership of the V&A, he National broadcast attention served as Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent, the home of Wedgwood’s potteries. A senior Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews lecturer in British history a... Targeted online display advertising Multi-wave social media advertising Targeted keyword search advertising Early reader review campaign including NetGalley Library marketing Academic Marketing Advance Reader’s Edition
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A Diary of the Plague Year An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020
Elise Engler
An extraordinary illustrated chronicle of 2020 that captures this indelible year in America in all its tragic, surreal, epic, and (sometimes) comedic intensity
Artist Elise Engler set herself a task five years ago: to illustrate the first headline she heard on her bedside radio every morning. The idea was to create a pictorial record of one year of listening to the news. But when Donald Trump was elected, ART / SUBJECTS & THEMES / PORTRAITS the headlines turned too wild for her to stop the experiment. Metropolitan Books | 11/16/2021 9781250824691 | $32.00 / $44.00 Can. Then 2020 happened. Was there ever such a year? Headlines about the death of Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages Kobe Bryant and Donald Trump's impeachment began to give way to news of a 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W mysterious virus in China, and Engler’s pages were quickly filled with the march Subrights: 1st, audio: Metropolitan of COVID-19: schools closing their doors, hospitals overflowing, graveyards full Brit, trans, dram: Aragi to capacity. Day by day, Engler drew every shocking turn of the year: the police Other Available Formats: murder of George Floyd and protests around the globe; a war against science and Ebook ISBN: 9781250824684 those who preached it; fires consuming California; a vicious election, absurdly contested. Other stories appeared, too: “Harvey Weinstein Sentenced,” “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized,” “China Extends Control over Hong Kong,” MARKETING and—on repeat—“Stock Market Plunges.” Author appearances National print and digital review and feature attention The result is a powerful visual record of an unprecedented time, collected in A National broadcast attention Diary of the Plague Year, which follows the headlines from the first appearance Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Op-ed campaign Targeted online display advertising Engler’s vibrant, immediate images recapture what it was like to live through Targeted keyword search advertising 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not Extensive blog and social media outreach remember... Social media influencer campaign with finished book giveaway sweepstakes Elise Engler is a visual artist who has shown in galleries across the United States and Europe. A Bookstagrammer mailing and outreach Diary of the Plague Year is her first book. The recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Library marketing Fellowship in drawing and an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant in painting, Engler has Academic marketing also received two MacDowell residencies and a fellowship at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy. Her Advance Reader’s Edition work has been written about in Art in America, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among other publicatio...
20 METROPOLITAN BOOKS DECEMBER 2021
Accidental Gods On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Anna Della Subin
A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age
Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of HISTORY / WORLD turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach Metropolitan Books | 12/7/2021 9781250296870 | $29.99 / $39.99 Can. us. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was 30 b/w illustrations t/o invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly Subrights: Audio: Holt secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused British, translation, 1st serial, dramatic: Elyse by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Cheney Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has Other Available Formats: been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Ebook ISBN: 9781250296887 Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched MARKETING its shores. National Review Attention National Broadcast Attention (including Podcasts) At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual Digital Advertising Campaign keyhole through which to observe the creat... NetGalley Promotion Targeted Email Marketing Outreach Social Media Influencer and Blogger Anna Della Subin is a writer, critic, and independent scholar born in New York. Her essays have Targeted Outreach appeared in the New York Review of Books, Harper's, the New York Times, and the London Review Library Marketing of Books. A senior editor at Bidoun, she studied the history of religion at Harvard Divinity School. Academic Marketing Accidental Gods is her first book. Advance Reader’s Edition
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Not All Diamonds and Rosé The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It
Dave Quinn
For the first time, in the ultimate Reunion, the ladies of The Real Housewives dish on the iconic moments we’ll never forget and the off-camera drama we’ve never seen before. From flipped tables ...
The Real Housewives, for the first time, go on the record with the incredible story of the juggernaut franchise. With the full support of Bravo and Andy Cohen, Not All Diamonds and Rosé is the definitive tell-all of the hit television BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY saga, from its unlikely start in the gated communities of Orange County, to the / ENTERTAINMENT & pop culture behemoth it has become—spanning seven cities, hundreds of cast PERFORMING ARTS members, and millions of fans. This is the whole story straight from the lips of Andy Cohen Books | 10/12/2021 9781250765789 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. the women and men who have made it one of America’s favorite television Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton shows. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Amassing hours of exclusive interviews with the wives, husbands, friends-of, and 2 8-pg. 4/c inserts, printed ends crew members behind the scenes, author Dave Quinn gets the unfiltered truth Subrights: 1st serial, audio, Brit, trans: Holt about legendary rivalries and off-camera revelations never before shared. With Dramatic: Abrams Artists Agency the stories behind iconic lines like “whooping it up” and “who gon’ check me, Other Available Formats: boo?” and deep dives into the most explosive vacation moments in the show’s Ebook ISBN: 9781250765796 history, this is your VIP pass to the lives behind the glam squads, talking heads, Audio ISBN: 9781250806994 and paparazzi shots.
Not All Diamonds and Rosé is the must-have book for every Housewives- MARKETING obsessed fan and casual viewer. So pour an ice-cold glass of pinot grigio (or Author appearances National print and digital review and three), forget your worries, and listen close. The ladies are about to spill the tea feature attention and get real. National broadcast attention Podcasts: targeted outreach and interviews An entertainment journalist and lifelong Bravo fan since back in the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Goodreads advertising and promotion Targeted online display advertising days, Dave Quinn has covered the Housewives for outlets like PEOPLE Magazine and Multi-wave social media advertising Entertainment Weekly. In addition to reality TV, much of Dave’s career has been spent writing Targeted keyword search advertising about theater — which, when combined with the Housewives, makes him an expert in drama. He Extensive blog and social media outreach lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his boyfriend, their elderly dog, and the only thing worth putting Social media influencer campaign with in his will: a ginormous TV. finished book giveaway sweepstakes Bookstagrammer mailing and outreach Library marketing
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Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine; Anna Subin, Anna Della; Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Della Subin...... 21 Turned Divine...... 21 Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing; Andrew Singular Career; Keith Phipps...... 11 Ross...... 16 Apples Never Fall; Liane Moriarty...... 3 Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers; Auster, Paul; Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen James Andrew Miller...... 4 Crane...... 7 Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane; Paul Notorious, the Damned; Michael Wolff...... 10 Auster...... 7 Veidlinger, Jeffrey; In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Coel, Michaela; Misfits: A Personal Manifesto...... 2 Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. . . . 14 Cohen, Andy; Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Wolff, Michael; Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Love...... 9 Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned...... 10 Diary of the Plague Year, A: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020; Elise Engler...... 20 End of Bias: A Beginning, The: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias; Jessica Nordell...... 13 Engler, Elise; A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020...... 20 From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance; John Pomfret...... 8 Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love; Andy Cohen...... 9 How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged; Kimberly Jones...... 12 Hunt, Tristram; The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood...... 19 Ignatieff, Michael; On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times...... 18 In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918– 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust; Jeffrey Veidlinger ...... 14 Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole; My Monticello: Fiction...... 6 Jones, Kimberly; How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged...... 12 Miller, James Andrew; Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers...... 4 Misfits: A Personal Manifesto; Michaela Coel...... 2 Moriarty, Liane; Apples Never Fall...... 3 My Body; Emily Ratajkowski...... 17 My Monticello: Fiction; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson...... 6 Nordell, Jessica; The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias...... 13 Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It; Dave Quinn ...... 22 On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times; Michael Ignatieff...... 18 Orner, Eric; Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank ...... 15 Phipps, Keith; Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career...... 11 Pomfret, John; From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance...... 8 Quinn, Dave; Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It...... 22 Radical Potter, The: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood; Tristram Hunt...... 19 Raging 2020s, The: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future; Alec Ross...... 5 Ratajkowski, Emily; My Body...... 17 Ross, Alec; The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future...... 5 Ross, Andrew; Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing ...... 16 Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank; Eric Orner ...... 15