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LONDON BOOK FAIR

April 14-16, 2015

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Andrew Blum THE WEATHER MACHINE: A Journey Inside the Forecast US: Ecco Press; UK: The Bodley Head/ PRH UK; Canada: HarperCanada; Germany: Knaus

It’s tempting to treat the weather as a banality: a topic for the taxi-driver and the hairdresser. But the way we know “the weather”, and what it will do next, depends upon one of the largest and most elaborate pieces of infrastructure humans have ever constructed: a globe-spanning machine, hidden in plain sight…

In THE WEATHER MACHINE, Andrew Blum, author of TUBES, takes readers on another unique journey, deep inside the weather report. Mixing a fresh take on the recent history of forecasting with on-the-ground reporting of today’s sophisticated weather-watching technology, Blum once again illuminates an unappreciated everyday wonder of the world. The weather forecast depends on the latest satellites and the fastest supercomputers, on international diplomacy and scientific innovation. It stands on the shoulders of every technology that defines modern life—from telecommunications to aerospace to ubiquitous cameras. But it stands silently. Like the Internet, it is both a marvel and a banality. And like the Internet, we know very little about how it all works. About who built it, and who makes it better. How do we know what we know about the weather—today, tomorrow, and over the next, turbulent decades?

No doubt the atmosphere is tense: we are on the brink of a new epoch of weather forecasting and a new epoch of weather. As the global forces of climate change play out, this vast weather machine will come under increasing scrutiny. As the world heats up, who can best predict its volatility? How can that prediction improve? Who knows the weather? And who owns it? THE WEATHER MACHINE will be the definitive, unprecedented, behind-the-scenes exploration of a global machinery of terrifying importance.

Andrew Blum is the author of TUBES: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first general reader-friendly look at the physical infrastructure of the global Internet. Blum’s writings about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel have appeared in numerous publications, including Metropolis, where he is a contributing editor, Architectural Record, Wired, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Popular Science. TUBES has been published internationally and translated into nine languages.

US Editor: Hilary Redmon Delivery: December 2015 Proposal available

2 Bryan Doerries THE THEATER OF WAR: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today US & Canada: Knopf; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Korea; Gilbut Publishing Company; UK & Australia: Scribe

THE THEATER OF WAR argues that ancient Greek tragedies are relevant— now more than ever—in helping us face the most morally complex issues of our time.

What do Greek tragedies have to say to us now? And what timeless things are they uniquely positioned to show us about what it means to be human? These are some of the questions that, for the past five years, director and translator Bryan Doerries been exploring with new audiences—such as soldiers, prison guards, addicts, hospice nurses, and terminally ill patients—in surprising settings throughout the world, from the Pentagon to the detention camps in Guantanamo Bay, to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to Fukushima, Japan.

By performing tragedies for people who have experienced trauma and loss, Doerries helps individuals and communities see that they are not alone across time. As he tells his story of taking tragedies to people who need to hear them most, we encounter the real-life stories of ordinary people, whose harrowing and unforgettable stories of sacrifice, betrayal, recovery, and redemption could be pulled from the pages of Sophocles’ plays and whose brave testimonials illuminate something hidden and timeless about the mythological characters in these ancient Greek tragedies.

This is a book about the power of stories to transcend time, to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. At its core, this is a story about how stories—ancient and modern—can bring about healing and help people change, before it’s too late.

“The Theater of War is a testament both to the enduring power of the classics and to the vital role art can play in our communal understanding of war and suffering.” —Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

Bryan Doerries is a writer, director, and translator. He is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, caregivers, and families to help them initiate conversations about the visible and invisible wounds of war. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health and social issues, such as combat- related psychological injury, end-of-life care, prison reform, domestic violence, political violence, recovery from natural and man-made disasters, and the destigmatization of substance abuse and addiction. A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals and communities heal from suffering and loss.

Vintage Books US will also publish four of Doerries’s lively translations of the plays themselves (AJAX, PHILOCTETES and WOMEN OF TRACHIS by Sophocles and PROMETHEUS BOUND by Aeschylus).

US editor: Andrew Miller US publication: September 2015 Edited manuscript available: July 2015

3 Advance Praise for Bryan Doerries’s THE THEATER OF WAR: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today (Alfred A. Knopf, September 2015)

“Bryan Doerries’s ongoing staging of Greek tragedies before U.S. military personnel and others processing trauma is an act of courageous humanism: a tribute to vanished lives and a succor to current soldiers and citizens. In connecting the valiance and pathos of modern military life to a 2500-year tradition, Doerries has returned dignity to countless troops nearly destroyed by war. His capacious yet intimate book offers a privileged look into not only the psychological costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and other proximate disasters, but also the larger meaning of inhabiting an unpredictable and militarized world.” —Andrew Solomon, author of Far From The Tree

"The Theater of War is an enthralling, gracefully written, and urgently important examination of the vital, ongoing relationship between past and present, between story and human experience, and between what the ancients had to report about warfare and human values and the desperate moral and psychological struggles that soldiers still undergo today. Bryan Doerries has given us a gift to be treasured." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried

“Bryan Doerries’s The Theater of War is a testament both to the enduring power of the classics and to the vital role art can play in our communal understanding of war and suffering.” —Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

“One has the feeling we are being watched by our ancestors, that they continually call out to us, bestow us with gifts of their wisdom, warn us about habitual traps and foibles common to all humans. We rarely have the presence to listen to, to receive that wisdom. Bryan Doerries asks: what lessons will we finally take to heart from these ancients? In this riveting narrative, simply but elegantly told, Doerries movingly resurrects the inner life of a people who lived 2,500 years ago, but whose struggles evoke our own familiar and damaged present, now endowed by this wonderful book with more drama, more tragedy, more compassion, more possibility. Here is the proof at last: our future depends on the gifts of the past.” —Ken Burns, filmmaker

“I have always thought of Greek tragedies as the earliest public service announcements. Those ancient stories of family politics, their warnings about civic duty, and their parables of grief and its management are as vital today as when first written. Through his translations and public readings, and now this powerful book, Doerries offers modern audiences access to these ancient PSAs. We hunger and thirst for the guidance these plays contain.” —Frances McDormand

“This book illuminates how Greek tragedy penetrates to the deepest of levels in us all. It also shows how certain audiences, when given permission, can help illuminate the urgency and relevance of these ancient stories today. In his approach to tragedy, Doerries has found the way to remove out-of-date barriers and clean the outer crust of language with fresh words so that the essential can appear once more.” —Peter Brook

4 Baz Dreisinger INCARCERATION NATIONS: In Search of Justice in Prisons Around the World World: Other Press

INCARCERATION NATIONS is a first-person odyssey through prisons around the globe. A jarring, poignant window into a world most are denied access to, the book radically rethinks one of America’s most devastating, impactful global exportations: the modern prison system. Grounded in facts, figures and historical realities, and narrated by a professor and journalist who runs an education program in US prisons, it is a spirited trek through human stories. Woven into the rich travelogue are discussions of touchstone prison issues: privatization, solitary confinement, restorative justice, the parole system, prison education, the arts behind bars and prisoner reentry.

From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda who launch a prison visiting program, to launching a creative writing class in a chillingly overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, the author delves into the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway, where INCARCERATION NATIONS concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present and future of justice.

Inside these prisons—day in and day out; for years, for decades, for life—are living, breathing human beings. Much like the popular book and TV show “Orange Is The New Black”, this book asks us to lay eyes on the inmates, to not look away, just as we could not look away during the crises at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo: those rare moments when our nation’s oubliettes, to borrow a 14th century French term for prison dungeons, meaning “forgotten ones”, violently pried their way into public view, demanding that we confront the human detritus of our global justice systems.

Dr. Baz Dreisinger, our tour guide, is a writer-and-professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she is the founder and director of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program (P2CP) and has taught prisoners in NY prisons for eight years. The P2CP, which has been featured in the NYT as well as on Al Jazeera and PBS, creates a partnership between the country’s largest public university system and the NY State Department of Corrections. Dreisinger is an avid traveler and music fanatic who has toured the world writing for the New York Times and producing for NPR. She has written and produced two documentaries about hip-hop and criminal justice. Her first book, NEAR BLACK: White to Black Passing in American Culture (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008), received favorable reviews in The New York Times Book Review and on NPR.

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

US editor: Judith Gurewich US Publication: February 2016; Manuscript available

5 Kathleen McAuliffe THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON PARASITES: How Tiny Predators Manipulate the Mind US& Canada: Eamon Dolan Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Japan: Intershift

Set against an exhilarating backdrop of key scientists and experiments that captures the spirit of scientific discovery, Kathleen McAuliffe delves into a concept seemingly drawn from the stuff of science-fiction: could parasites— germs from herpes to the flu—be altering how we think, feel and act?

Kathleen’s journey takes us from dying marine life and possessed spiders to our own brains and guts, all while introducing the very new field of neuroparasitology. It shows us, in spine-tingling ways, how slivers of who we think we are may be the influence of something entirely alien.

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON PARASITES is a gripping narrative exploration of the far- reaching ways parasites influence the mental functioning of animals and humans and even shape our personalities and political views. These invisible organisms challenge fundamental assumptions about our autonomy and rupture the boundary between mental illness and infectious disease, with immeasurable implications for human behavior both on an individual and societal level.

“Certainly findings from this frontier raise provocative questions: If pathogens are capable of fiddling with our minds, what does that say about our responsibility for our own actions? Are we really the free thinkers we imagine ourselves to be? To what extent do parasites define our identity? How do they affect our morals and cultural norms? In the final chapter of this book, I will attempt to salvage the concept of free will. But be forewarned: it will take quite a beating in-between.”

Introducing survival of the fittest…parasite.

Kathleen McAuliffe is an award-winning science & health writer and contributing editor to Discover Magazine and her articles—many featured on covers—have appeared in over a dozen national magazines, including Discover, The New York Times (both the Sunday Magazine and newspaper), US News & World Report, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, More Magazine, Glamour, and Readers’ Digest. She has done script development and on-camera interviews for the TV series Omni: The New Frontier, was a panelist on the PBS seminar Our Genes/Our Choices TV, and has appeared as a guest on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and among other radio programs. This is her first book project.

UK rights: Robert Kirby, [email protected]

US editor: Eamon Dolan Delivery: October 2015 Proposal & new sample chapters available (Introduction, with Chapters 1-3)

6 Priya Parker THE ART OF GATHERING: Creating Breakthrough Spaces that Transform the Way We Live, Love, Learn & Lead US & Canada: Riverhead/ Penguin; UK: Portfolio/Penguin UK

The way we gather matters. We spend our lives gathering: in meetings, family reunions, industry conferences, weddings, and dinner parties. Gatherings can be tiny – three or four people in a brainstorming meeting – or huge – thousands of people connecting at an annual sales conference. But whether it’s a gathering of four or forty thousand people, far too many of our gatherings fail. Or, more charitably, they struggle to create a sizzle worthy of their raw ingredients. At so many gatherings, we are surrounded by curious, history-filled, quietly dazzling people, who hope, as we do, to be a little elevated, a little transported, a little leavened by each event. And then, time and again, we are not. Part-journey, part-owner’s manual, THE ART OF GATHERING is for anyone who has ever wondered how to take an ordinary moment or experience with others and make it extraordinary. How do you create a safe space? How do you get people to act in public the way they would behind closed doors? How do you design experiences that transform the way people think and lead? This book goes to the heart of the question of what anyone can do to design a transformative gathering.

Priya Parker is an expert on organizing successful gatherings – whether in conference centers or her living room -- and she will take readers on a journey to meet master gatherers around the world who regularly and expertly engage in some of the most difficult, transformative and meaningful conversations and experiences on earth. Priya will break down the magic of these experiences to help the rest of us understand how we might bring elements of them into our own lives.

Priya Parker is a strategic facilitator and advisor with a background in conflict- resolution whose company, Thrive Labs, has worked with organizations as varied as the MoMA, the World Economic Forum, the National Parks Department, NBBJ, the International Finance Corporation, Meetup.com, and retail company Fresh, on strategy, vision and purpose. She is a 2013 member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership and a 2014 member of its Council on Values. She has spoken at TEDx, where her talk about connecting talent and purpose has been viewed more than 300,000 times. Her work and ideas have been covered by NPR’s Morning Edition, Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, and Forbes. Fast Company named Priya as one of “16 Twitter Stars to Follow in 2013” and Forbes called Priya a “Must Follow Marketing Mind on Twitter 2014.” Priya received her B.A. in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia, Phi Beta Kappa; an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan; and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School. Born in Zimbabwe, Priya has lived in Botswana, the Republic of the Maldives, Indonesia, Holland, and India and she now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

US editor: Jake Morrissey UK editor: Zoe Bohm Delivery: March 2017 Proposal available

7 Julia Pimsleur MILLION DOLLAR WOMEN: Raise Capital and Take Your Business Further, Faster World English: Simon & Schuster; UK: Piatkus; Netherlands: Atlas Contact

The essential guide for female entrepreneurs who want to “go big”, which shows you how to turn that creative idea into a million-dollar-plus business.

MILLION DOLLAR WOMEN will teach you the concepts, the lexicon, and the steps for taking a business big. It shows you how to network, when to delegate, and when to get extra coaching. Above all, it provides help for overcoming the kind of emotional hurdles you have to jump to join the million dollar-plus business owners —and cheers you on in overcoming every obstacle. An invaluable reference, with friendly, pragmatic advice, humor, and an appendix of exercises to take your ideas from theory to practice.

Women run an increasing number of businesses, representing approximately 37% of enterprises globally, with top-ranking countries including Australia (No. 2), Germany (No. 3), France (No. 4), and Mexico (No. 5). However, even in the US where women have the greatest chance of entrepreneurial success, female entrepreneurs still tend to think small, and their companies rarely make over $1M in annual revenues. CEO Julia Pimsleur learned when she set out to raise capital for her business that less than 5% of venture capital dollars get invested in women-run businesses. This means few women have the funds to take their businesses big. Pimsleur has beaten the odds, raising millions for her award-winning international children’s language-teaching company, Little Pim, and turning it into a thriving business. And now she’s paying it forward: helping other women access capital and scale up their businesses. Via her popular boot-camp workshops and online courses, and now being hired to teach by companies like American Express and Morgan Stanley, she wants women to reach their full business potential and join the ranks of MILLION DOLLAR WOMEN. She has trained women to think big and successfully fundraise in what is still very much a boys’ club. This book will be a way of reaching millions more potential Million Dollar Women and giving them a kind of GPS for success.

Julia Pimsleur is the CEO and Founder of Little Pim, the leading system for introducing young children to a second language. Little Pim has won twenty-five awards for its proprietary Entertainment Immersion Method® and its products are sold in 22 countries. After raising millions for her own company, she created her popular “Double Digit Academy” and online course “Further. Faster. Funded.” to help other women do the same. Pimsleur has blogged about entrepreneurship for Forbes.com since 2012; has been featured on Today, NBC Weekend Today, and Fox News; and her company has been highlighted in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She won the 2013 Smart CEO Brava! Award for women entrepreneurs. Pimsleur speaks French, Italian, and some Spanish and lives in New York with her husband and their two energetic young boys.

Japan: Tuttle-Mori

US editor: Priscilla Painton US publication: October 2015 Uncopyedited manuscript available

8 Ben Ratliff TWENTY WAYS TO LISTEN (TO MUSIC) US & Canada: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; UK & Commonwealth: Penguin Press [Previous books have sold in the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain]

Music, beyond melody, harmony, and rhythm, is sound. And sound is made of far more abstract things: time, resonance, space, and emotion. It’s hard to write in those terms without being mystical, or scientific, or losing your grip on what makes a piece of music exciting. Most normal music criticism doesn’t do this: it favors the composer’s intent and the song’s structure and the music’s genre over the basic issues of sound.

TWENTY WAYS TO LISTEN (TO MUSIC) is about how we perceive music—from Fats Waller or Steve Reich to Lady Gaga or Waka Flocka Flame—at a time when music is everywhere in our society but the old ways of understanding music no longer describe our experience of it. It’s about how we listen to music in real time, when we have nearly all we want wherever we go, when our ideas about our own identities as listeners are constantly fluid and no one music seems most “important,” when there’s unlimited listening possibility but no consensus about music’s organizing principles.

When we listen to Ke$ha’s “Your Love Is My Drug” or Thelonious Monk’s “Thelonious” or Waka Flocka Flame’s “Luv Dem Gun Sounds” or Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Call Me When You Get This”—hardly any of us are using x-ray hearing to ascertain an aural blueprint of structure or syntax or genre. Instead, we think about what jumps out of the songs as they move along. TWENTY WAYS TO LISTEN (TO MUSIC) is a creative, critical exploration of our own responses to sound and affect from music of the last hundred years, from the articulation of speed and loudness to meditations on intimacy and sadness. Race and class and region and level of education and even generation—the last barricade, at least in American life—matter less and less to our ears. And so do the structural and stylistic markers in a piece of music which tell you that you are listening to jazz, or classical music, or hip-hop, or anything else. We’re all on the way toward listening to everything; to think otherwise is wishing for the worst. But where do we start? What are the ways to listen? What are we listening for?

Ben Ratliff has been a jazz and pop critic at The New York Times since 1996. He is the author of COLTRANE: The Story of a Sound (FSG, 2007), which was a finalist for the NBCC award in the category of Criticism. Ratliff’s latest book THE JAZZ EAR: Conversations over Music (Times Books, 2008), a collection of essays on musicians and their influences, was listed as one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Best Books of the Year.

US editor: Alex Star Publication: May 2016 Manuscript has been delivered; edited manuscript forthcoming shortly

9 Sebastian Smee THE ART OF RIVALRY US & Canada: Random House; UK: Profile; ANZ: Text; Brazil: Zahar; France: Flammarion; Germany: Insel/ Suhrkamp Verlag; Italy: De Agostini/ Utet; Netherlands: Spectrum

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee chronicles the competition at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in the history of art—that of Matisse and Picasso, of Pollock and de Kooning, of Manet and Degas, and of Freud and Bacon— and explains how such relationships stoked some of the most celebrated breakthroughs in modern creativity.

Common sense suggests that rivalry is one of the great motors of artistic innovation. But it is also one of the deeper mysteries. Just as almost every artist of note has been drawn into some form of rivalry with his or her contemporaries, every significant rivalry has a deeply private dimension. Telescoping in on these personal dynamics, Smee uncovers a repeating pattern: first developing friendship, then deepening influence as one artist seems to have a profound impact not only on the other’s work but on his whole attitude to life; and finally, a dramatic moment of rupture.

Manet slashes a painting Degas made of him and his wife Suzanne; Picasso’s friends, trying to impress Picasso, throw darts at a portrait of Matisse’s daughter Marguerite; de Kooning falls out with Pollock and then, less than a year after Pollock’s death, takes Pollock’s lover, Ruth Kligman, as his own; and Freud falls out with his close friend and mentor Bacon after unwittingly getting between Bacon and his violent male lover.

All these relationships hinged on a moment of betrayal. Smee explores the ways in which betrayal serves as an engine of creative innovation. He demonstrates how willfully breaking away from one’s friend, or rival, or “other half,” can be a spur to innovation, even a necessary step in finding one’s own true voice.

Something is always lost in the process, though. And the artists Smee writes about can often be seen looking back, years after the fact, with degrees of yearning, sorrow, or regret. In examining the connection between betrayal and creativity, Smee probes the tension between admiration and envy, between friendship and animosity, between different temperaments and modes of creativity. He describes how these have given rise to some of the most celebrated achievements in 19th and 20th century art.

Sebastian Smee is the chief art critic at the Boston Globe. He is the author of five books on Lucian Freud (three published by Jonathan Cape), one on Matisse and Picasso (2001), and an e-book FRAME BY FRAME which collects his popular series for the Boston Globe on individual works of art. Between 2004 and 2008 he was national art critic at The Australian newspaper. Prior to that he was an art critic at the Daily Telegraph in London. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent, Prospect and The Art Newspaper, and The Spectator. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in April 2011.

US editor: David Ebershoff Publication: Spring, 2016 Manuscript has been delivered; edited manuscript forthcoming shortly

10 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang REST: Why Working Less Gets More Done World English: Basic Books; UK & Comm: Viking/Portfolio; Germany: Riemann Verlag; Japan: Nikkei Business Publications; Netherlands: Kosmos; Portugal: Circulo de Leitores; Taiwan: Locus

Rest is like singing or running: everyone knows how to do it, but we can all learn to do it better, and get more out of it. We think of rest as work’s opposite, when in fact they’re partners: each is essential, and together they make our lives complete. In REST, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang explains how we can make rest more potent and restorative—and thus make our working hours more productive and creative.

Long hours and overwork are testaments to an individual’s commitment and proof of their seriousness. They don’t always make us more productive, but they make us look more productive. REST shows that the real key to productivity lies in “deliberate rest” - activities that are mentally and physically restorative, yet also support creative thinking. It explains why Watson and Crick‘s long lunches were as important to their decoding the structure of DNA as their hours in the lab. It reveals the science behind Charles Darwin’s habit of working in three ninety-minute periods between long walks, letter writing, and daytime naps. It surveys the neuroscientific foundation of Pablo Picasso’s declaration that "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” It shows why Dwight Eisenhower found an escape from the pressures of commanding Allied forces in bridge games and simple meals, and why Winston Churchill’s afternoon naps are a better model for leaders than Adolf Hitler’s all-nighters. We are all familiar with the idea that world-class performance comes after 10,000 hours of practice. REST argues that that’s only half true. It really comes after 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, 12,500 hours of deliberate rest, and 30,000 hours of sleep.

REST will show readers how to work productively in daily bursts of four or five hours; how to choose leisure activities that make those hours even more fruitful; and how treating rest as a skill worth cultivating and practicing won’t just make you be more creative, but help you live a more creative life.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ph.D. has spent two decades studying people, technology, and the worlds they make. He’s worked with governments and Fortune 500 companies; given talks on five continents, at venues ranging from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, to Disney World; and held academic positions at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Oxford universities. His last book, THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION, was published in 2013.

US editor: Alison Mackeen UK editor: Joel Rickett Delivery: December 2015 Proposal available

11 Tom Vanderbilt YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice US: Knopf; Canada: Knopf; UK: S&S; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; China: Shanghai Xiron Media; Germany: Hanser; Japan: Hayakawa; Korea: Tornado; Netherlands: De Bezige Bij; Taiwan: Locus

We all have tastes. For instance, Tom Vanderbilt, the author of this book, doesn’t particularly care for white cars or fennel—even if he doesn’t quite know why. Taste is an incredible fuzzy construct: Everyone has likes and preferences, but what do actually know about them? How do we acquire tastes, and how do they change? Why does our taste in the moment not reflect our taste in the future? And yet, as arbitrary as taste can often seem to be, consider how much taste governs our lives, how much we set sail by our unassailable tastes, how many times in an average day we make what psychologists call an “affective judgment,” expressing one’s like or dislike of something.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE follows Tom Vanderbilt’s NYT bestseller TRAFFIC: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), and takes an everyday, arguably overlooked, experience—taste—and causes us to think about preference anew.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE will probe the underexplored regions of our tastes, that constant procession of thumbs up and down we make (sometimes at the same time), the carefully constructed qualifiers (I like it, but I don’t love it), often without thinking much about it. This book will not map, in the sense of Paul Fussell’s CLASS or David Brooks’ BOBOS IN PARADISE, the boundaries of a particular set of tastes, or define “good” and “bad taste.” YOU MAY ALSO LIKE is more sweeping than that. Instead, it seeks to consider a more fundamental, “bottom-up” set of processes: How do we know what we like? What stories do we tell ourselves about those preferences, and how do we explain them? How stable are these likes and dislikes? Under what conditions do our tastes change, on an individual and societal level? Is there such a thing as “universal” taste?

There is, the cliché goes, “no accounting for taste.” But what if there was?

Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture for Wired, Slate, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and many other publications. His NYT bestselling book TRAFFIC was translated into fifteen languages.

US editor: Andrew Miller US publication: Summer 2015 Manuscript has been delivered; edited manuscript forthcoming shortly

12 Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. THE WELL-TUNED BRAIN: Neuroscience and The Life Well Lived World English: W.W. Norton; China: HuangZhang; Russia: Alpina

“Peter Whybrow has combined gripping big themes with an abundance of fascinating stories. The big themes revolve around the collision between our ancient human habits, our human brains often operating on autopilot, and the seductive material success of our modern market economy. You’ll find this book as rich and as thought-provoking as it is enjoyable.” – Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of best-selling books including Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The World until Yesterdays

A neuropsychiatrist and the award-winning author of AMERICAN MANIA: When More Is Not Enough, Dr. Peter C. Whybrow excels at integrating the biology of behavior, and a knowledge of the way the brain works, with socio-cultural insights and economics. THE WELL- TUNED BRAIN investigates contemporary Western society⎯with our workaholic dedication and compelling consumerism, its associated stress and seemingly unstoppable descent into debt⎯to offer a fascinating and novel analysis of what we have learned about ourselves as evolved creatures of this planet, and what we have forgotten. Combining philosophical and historical perspectives with personal stories and the work of economists and social theorists, plus the latest discoveries in behavioral neuroscience, Whybrow confronts the challenges of our work-a-day affluence, and explores practical ways forward.

A timely and essential book that speaks to the potential for all of us to harness the human capacity for social interaction, THE WELL-TUNED BRAIN refocuses the meaning of human progress, urging a new and sustainable approach to living the life that ensures social and physical health. In Whybrow’s words, “One of the amazing things about modern times is that we know so much about biology and yet we ignore it in our social and political organization. It is now within our reach to create a balanced market society where profit, material advance, and technology serve as instruments in achieving the good life, rather than being confused with the good life itself.”

Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and an international authority on emotion, endocrinology and the disorders of mood. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Whybrow is the author of A MOOD APART: The Thinker’s Guide to Emotions and Its Disorders. His last book, AMERICAN MANIA: When More Is Not Enough, was published by W.W. Norton and won several science book prizes. (www.peterwhybrow.com)

UK rights inquiries: [email protected]

US editor: Amy Cherry; US publication: May 2015; Finished manuscript available

13 NON-FICTION:

Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer SUPERFANDOM: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are US & Canada: W.W. Norton; UK: Profile Books; Brazil: Rocco; China: Citic Press; Korea: Sejong; Japan: Hayakawa; Taiwan: Locus

We are all fans of something. The urge to act in fanlike ways, to perform activities that help us connect meaningfully with cultural symbols and icons, is as old as the first religious pilgrimages. Humans have always been driven to form communities with like-minded individuals around commonalities - a shared geographic location, religion, or class. Today, that commonality is just as likely to be a shared love of Game of Thrones, Lady Gaga, or Guinness beer. These communities represent a vast untapped resource for marketers, brand managers, and content creators, not just for their members’ enthusiastic spending habits, but for the multitude of more profound benefits they offer a brand that’s ready to stop treating them like mere consumers and start treating them like fans.

SUPERFANDOM probes the underlying factors behind fan behaviors and their impact on the celebrities, brands, and organizations they love as fandom finally elbows itself into the mainstream. The rise of digital connectivity has made possible a new ‘fandom-based economy’, a convergence of fan and fan object, of creator and consumer. The book explains the practicalities of these modern fan interactions, demonstrating the astonishing results of organizations that properly channel fan input and enthusiasm. Exploration of successes such as Lego’s Mindstorms, Japanese pop star hologram Hatsane Miku, fan-controlled football clubs such as the Argentinian Boca Juniors, and the authors’ own crowd-sourced toy company, Squishable, offers practical guidance for both creating fan communities and harnessing their power. Although ‘crowdsourcing’ is the buzzword of the day, SUPERFANDOM demonstrates that it’s just one tool in a vast array of possible fan collaborations available to organizations willing to fully engage with their fan base.

SUPERFANDOM will attract those who are struggling to understand the broader context that fandom brings to an evolving commercial world. This book will help brand owners and fan object creators across the globe to recognize how to rapidly and properly build their fan followings and how to collaborate with these fans to build vibrant and responsive businesses.

Zoe Fraade-Blanar is a consultant, teacher, and user experience designer, whose work focuses on the rising importance of fan communities on both society and commerce. Co-founder of fan- driven design company Squishable, she leads a team that has been recognized across the industry as a leader in fan-based social media engagement. She is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and serves as a consultant in the effects of technology on the media at the Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. Aaron P. Glazer is an entrepreneur, writer, and historian whose work focuses on the economic foundations of communities. He is co-founder and CEO of Squishable, where he introduced the company’s successful Open Squish and WeSquish platforms, allowing fans to submit and vote on the next generation of the company’s stuffed animals. Previously, Glazer worked in business analysis, where he co-authored a series of groundbreaking quantitative studies on business management.

US editor: Brendan Curry; Delivery: October 2015; Proposal material available

14 Edwin Frank STRANGER THAN FICTION: The Life of the Twentieth Century Novel US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; UK: Harvill Secker; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Germany: C.H.Beck; Italy: Guanda; Russia: AST; Spain: Seix Barral

In this fascinating new take on literary history, Edwin Frank sets out to explore what makes the 20th century the golden age for the novel, how the attitude towards the medium has changed, and how it was constantly reinvented and reinvigorated.

In STRANGER THAN FICTION, a deeply well-read, well-informed author shows us what influenced the 20th century novel, where it began, where it took us and where it is going (or, perhaps, where it ends). With such a medium that consistently undergoes rapid transformation, Frank effectively lays out the groundwork of how the spread of literacy, collapsing of social barriers, and great tragedies such as World War II directly affected the 20th century novel. Rich with examples of writers from around the world, he shows us how nationalism and globalism have affected the writers themselves, marking when and where these changes in style came about. With references to the work of some of the literary world’s greats such as Joyce, Beckett, Musil and Proust, Frank shows us how the modern novel seeks to reject history, while finding itself helplessly entangled with its past. Constantly attempting to separate itself from reality, the 20th century novel falls into its own trap: trying to prove itself to be equally as worthy as the wonderful, terrible, fractioned reality it depicts.

Edwin Frank graduated from Harvard, received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, and studied art history at Columbia University. He has published poems and essays in many journals and is the author of two books of poetry, The Further Adventures of Pinocchio and Stack. He has been the editor of the New York Review of Books Classics series since its beginning in 1999. He is a recent recipient of a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, in Marfa, Texas.

US editor: Jonathan Galassi UK editor: Michal Shavit Delivery: June 2015 Proposal available

15 Noah Isenberg EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK'S: How Casablanca Taught the World to Love Movies US & Canada: W.W. Norton; UK: Faber and Faber

The famous 1942 romantic drama Casablanca is beyond a classic. It has enjoyed more revival screenings than any other film in the history of motion pictures. It is, as Umberto Eco once quipped, “not one movie. It is ‘the movies.’” EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK’S is fueled by a profound desire to understand what makes a single film so captivating, so influential, and such a worldwide phenomenon—a work that has inspired adoration and emulation over multiple generations. It will explore the iconic and beloved film, including its fabled origins, the myths and realities of how it was made, and the firm place it continues to occupy in our collective imagination.

Combining personal anecdote with cultural history, critical observation with Hollywood lore, EVERYBODY COMES TO RICK’S will build on a tradition of film and cultural criticism perfected by writers like Manny Farber, Barbara Deming, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, Molly Haskell, Geoffrey O’Brien, Greil Marcus, and David Thomson. It will appeal to film buffs and of course to the movie's legions of devotees but also, more generally, to fans of smart, serious non-fiction that re-examines the larger meaning of something so iconic and so familiar to us all. This is the story of Casablanca today. It is a story whose register of meaning transcends the mere plotlines of this epic film and taps into our core fascination with motion pictures. Casablanca after all is the film that taught us how to love movies - how to love the archetypes in which it luxuriates and how to value the fundamental and timeless messages it projects.

Noah Isenberg is the Director of Screen Studies and Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College – The New School for Liberal Arts, where he teaches courses in film history, criticism, and comparative literature. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a Ph.D. in German studies, with a concentration on film, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Previous books of his include Detour (British Film Institute, 2008) and Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (California, 2014). His writing has appeared in such diverse outlets as the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, The Nation, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, Lingua Franca, and Partisan Review.

US editor: Matt Weiland Delivery: August 2015 Proposal available

16 Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant USER FRIENDLY: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play US & Canada: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; UK: RH UK/ WH Allen; China: Citic Press

In USER FRIENDLY, Cliff Kuang, articles editor at Wired, and Robert Fabricant, an award-winning product designer, reveal how design is reshaping our lives, from making money to making friends to making babies. They show why “user experience” design will rule the coming decade, just as technology ruled the last. USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products, whether a car, an app, or a smart watch—and for would-be innovators aspiring to make them.

When some new gadget seems to intuit how we act and what we want, our lives can improve dramatically. But how can a thoughtful design make elegance from chaos? Are there lasting principles behind that alchemy? Why do some designs take root while others wither? Answering these questions requires a new frame of mind. In a world filled with novel technologies, design is no longer about creating a thing, such as a new car; it is about the act of driving. It is about the fabric of experience.

The authors will guide readers through the myriad ways that designers are reshaping our behavior, in realms ranging from healthcare to banking to dating to voting. And they will show how success hinges upon hidden rules that govern our minds and manners. Laypeople and experts alike will leave the book seeing the world around us in a new way. In scope and impact, USER FRIENDLY is inspired by books such as Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Not since Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, in print for almost thirty years, has there been a such a lively and relevant book about design written for the general reader, not just the business audiences.

Cliff Kuang is Articles Editor at Wired magazine, overseeing its design coverage, and is part of the core team reinventing its digital products. He was previously design editor at Fast Company and his writing has appeared in the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, and Slate. Prior to journalism, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. He lives in San Francisco.

Robert Fabricant is VP of Creative at Frog, a global design firm, and one of the most influential design minds in the industry. Robert has been an interaction designer for over twenty years, and has worked on everything from wearable computing to the connected car, to mobile technologies that improve healthcare in the developing world. He lives in Brooklyn.

US editor: Sean McDonald Delivery: October 2015 Proposal available

17 Tim Leberecht THE BUSINESS ROMANTIC: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself US & Canada: HarperBusiness; UK: Piatkus; Brazil: Rocco; China: Mediatime Books; Germany: Droemer; Japan: Village Books; Korea: Munhakdongne; Netherlands: Business Contact; Russia: Atticus-Azbooka; Taiwan: Business Today; Turkey: Okuyanas

How can work be delightful—perhaps even magical? THE BUSINESS ROMANTIC offers a radically different view of the successful enterprise and inspires you to find more meaning in business.

"Engaging, even lyrical stories in the spirit of the best of classic Fast Company. Work is personal."—Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

It’s an indispensable part of our lives, from the long hours we work to the products and services we buy—and yet business seems divorced from the full expression of our humanity. For many of us, something is missing, something both essential and immeasurable that lets us see the world with fresh eyes every day: romance.

In this smart, playful, and provocative book, Tim Leberecht, one of today’s most original business thinkers, argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in products, experiences, and organizations that connect us with something greater than ourselves.

In the face of eroding trust in capitalism, pervasive technology, and the desire to quantify our behaviors, THE BUSINESS ROMANTIC reveals the power of business to elevate us above mere rationality and self-interest toward deep, passionate exchanges that honor our most complete selves. From strategy to the workplace, from product innovation to branding, customer relationships, and sales, Leberecht presents ten “Rules of Enchantment” that illustrate the value of choosing intimacy over transparency, mystery over clarity, devotion over data, vulnerability over control, delight over satisfaction, and love over liking.

Whether a consumer or producer, employee or entrepreneur, THE BUSINESS ROMANTIC urges you to start the most sublime of revolutions: Expect more. Give more of yourself. Fall back in love with business and your life.

Tim Leberecht is the chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm, and formerly the chief marketing officer of product innovation and strategy firm Frog Design. His writing has appeared in publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, and Wired. He has spoken at conferences including TEDGlobal, The Economist Big Rethink, and DLD. Leberecht serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values.

US editor: Hollis Heimbouch US publication: January 2015 Finished books available

18 Sophie Pinkham THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION: Post-Soviet Dreams of Past and Future US & Canada: W.W. Norton; UK: Heinemann / PRH UK

As Russia and Ukraine teeter on the brink of war, the newspapers are full of stories about the struggle between East and West, tyranny and freedom. But these easy narratives fail to capture the complexity of a region that is changing the course of European history. Russia and Ukraine are about much more than Putin’s power plays or Stalin’s Gulags; they are home to a post-Soviet generation that can teach us important lessons about politics, culture, and collective memory.

Blending memoir, reportage, and cultural criticism, THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION will offer an intimate look into the post-Soviet world, charting the clash between utopian dreams and everyday needs, between a Soviet past and an increasingly uncertain future. As readers travel with the author across Russia and Ukraine, they will meet Siberian junkies and St. Petersburg poets; Odessa prostitutes and Moscow revolutionaries; Jewish and gypsy musicians struggling to keep their musical traditions alive; valiant activists and corrupt bureaucrats; well-meaning aid workers and well-heeled sex tourists.

THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION will provide an idiosyncratic portrait of the first post-Soviet generation, of people who have struggled to define their identities— and simply to survive—as their countries form and reform around them. Rooted in personal stories and expanding out into history, politics, and culture, by turns tragic and absurd, THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION will leave readers with a rich understanding of a region that has too often been reduced to stereotypes.

Sophie Pinkham is a doctoral student at Columbia University, where she studies the interaction between literature and politics in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia. After graduating from Yale with a degree in English literature in 2004, she worked for the Open Society Institute and other international aid organizations, helping to develop public health programs in Ukraine, Russia, and other former Soviet states, and lived in Ukraine for two years on a Fulbright grant. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The Nation, n + 1, The Paris Review, the London Review of Books and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.

US editor: Tom Mayer UK editor: Tom Avery Delivery: July 2015 Proposal available

19 Ly Tran HOUSE OF STICKS: A Memoir US & Canada: Scribner

Sweatshop labor at the age of four, living with an abusive father who suffers from PTSD, and shuffling around the nail salons of New York City trying to earn a living from the age of twelve, Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful true story about the immigrant experience in her memoir, as told from the perspective of a nail salon technician.

Ly and her three older brothers were born in Tra On, a small town on the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ly's father, a lieutenant in the South Vietnamese Army, served ten years in a re-education camp. Through the U.S. Department of State's Humanitarian Operation program, which allowed for the resettlement of former POWs who had served alongside the U.S. during the Vietnam War, Ly and her family emigrated to New York City. They arrived in the February blizzard of 1993, leaving rice paddies, mango trees, and a hut made of twigs and leaves for a towering, red brick building on Bleecker Street on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, where Ly still lives with her parents today.

Despite coming to the land of opportunity, they were unable to find work and barely had food to eat. Ly developed hypothermia because they didn't have heat. Her older brothers stole food from the trash bins at schools. A year later, Ly had her first job in America at the age of four, doing sweatshop labor at home with her family. Every twenty-four ties earned them a dollar, but their supplier disappeared. In time, she and her mother found work in nail salons throughout the city and eventually opened up one of their own. Ly worked with her mother in addition to attending middle school, and later, the Bronx High School of Science.

Evocative of both THE GLASS CASTLE and RANDOM FAMILY, the memoir is structured in the form of the steps of a manicure, because it was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to unravel her family’s history and understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's brothers in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the Mekong to avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was sold to a Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs.

HOUSE OF STICKS brings to light many socioeconomic issues often overlooked. It is in part about poverty and getting by, and hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young Vietnamese immigrant, the obstacles she faced as a female in her family and on the streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn, she reveals the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her harsh reality, and the faith that carried her through.

Ly Tran is a hostess at a kosher Japanese steakhouse on the Upper West Side in New York City. Author and editor, Heidi Julavits, interviewed Ly about her experiences with sweatshop labor, and a transcript of the interview was published in the anthology, WOMEN IN CLOTHES (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2014). Ly graduated from Columbia University in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Linguistics. She is twenty-five years old.

UK rights inquiries: Caroline Hardman, [email protected] US editor: Liese Mayer Delivery: June 2016 Proposal material available

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