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New York Office 19 West 21st Street, Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 Telephone: (212) 765-6900 Boston Office 545 Boylston Street, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02116 Telephone: (617) 262-2400 UPCOMING MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY UPCOMING MINDFULNESS / SELF-HELP BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER YOU CAN’T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS RUST THE WEDGE BECOMING KIM JONG UN HEART, BREATH, MIND LEARNING BY HEART THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION THIS IS BIG HI, JUST A QUICK QUESTION BETSEY: A MEMOIR BE WATER, MY FRIEND LAUGH LINES GROWING YOUNG SPACE IS THE PLACE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE THE EQUIVALENTS TRUE AGE ROCKAWAY MIRACLE COUNTRY UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION BRIGHT PRECIOUS THING HEAD OF THE MOSSAD THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS GUCCI TO GOATS THE DOCTOR WHO FOOLED THE WORLD HOW TO SAY BABYLON BLOOD RUNS COAL WHICH GOD DO YOU MEAN? 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Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable voice, BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age. Constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Sonnenfeld somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors. Written with poignant insight and real-life irony, the book follows Sonnenfeld from childhood as a French horn player through graduate film school at NYU, where he developed his talent for cinematography. His first job after graduating was shooting nine feature length pornos in nine days. From that humble entrée, he went on to form a friendship with the Coen Brothers, launching his career shooting their first three films. Will Praise for BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR Smith once joked that he wanted to take Sonnenfeld to Philadelphia MOTHER: public schools and say, "If this guy could end up as a successful film director on big budget films, anyone can." This book is a fascinating and " Zesty anecdotes about family, marriage, and fatherhood combine with hilarious roadmap for anyone who thinks they can't succeed in life because of a rough beginning. Hollywood gossip to make for an entertaining romp.” – Kirkus “If I went to prison, and saw that Barry Sonnenfeld was going to be my Barry Sonnenfeld made his directorial debut with The Addams Family in 1991, and has gone on to direct a number of films including Addams cellmate, I would think, ‘Oh, this will be a breeze.’”— Jerry Seinfeld Family Values, Get Shorty, and the first three Men in Black films. His television credits include Pushing Daisies, for which he won an Emmy, and The extraordinary thing about Barry is how many truly strange and amazing most recently Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. chapters he's had in his life." – Neil Patrick Harris RUST A Memoir of Steel and Grit By Eliese Colette Goldbach US publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan (North American rights) US editor: Bryn Clark; To publish: March 2020 Material available: Final PDF available Rights sold: Korea (Maumsanchaek) UK/Commonwealth (Quercus) A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape, to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. In RUST, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker’s paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day. Praise for RUST: Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, RUST is a story of the "An affecting, unblinking portrait of working-class life.” – Kirkus humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow. "A female steelworker's soulful portrait of industrial life.” – Publishers Weekly Eliese Goldbach is a steelworker at the ArcelorMittal Cleveland Temper Mill. She received an MFA in nonfiction from the Northeast Ohio Master "Goldbach displays refreshing candor and hard-earned knowledge about the of Fine Arts Program. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Western issues that divide us and the work that unites us.” – Booklist Humanities Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Best American Essays 2017. Eliese has received the Ploughshares Emerging "This beautifully told, nuanced memoir will strike a chord with fans of Writers Award and a Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant from the Ohioana Hillbilly Elegy and pique the interest of sociology scholars." – Library Library Association, which is given to a young Ohio writer of promise. Journal BECOMING KIM JONG UN A Former CIA Officer’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator By Jung H. Pak US publisher: Ballantine / PRH (North American rights) US editor: Brendan Vaughan; To publish: April 2020 Material available: Final PDF available Rights sold: Finland (Otava) Germany (DuMont) Holland (Prometheus) Hungary (Nouvion) Korea (Dasan Books) Norway (Pantagruel) Poland (W.A.B./Foksal) UK/Commonwealth (Oneworld) When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, predictions about his imminent fall were rife. North Korea was isolated, poor, unable to feed its people, and clinging to its nuclear program for legitimacy. But instead, the opposite happened. Now, Kim has solidified his grip on his country and brought the United States and the region to the brink of war. Still, we know so little about him—or how he rules. Enter CIA analyst Jung Pak, whose brilliant Brookings Institution essay Praise for BECOMING KIM JONG UN: "The Education of Kim Jong Un" cemented her status as the go-to authority on the calculating young leader. Pak has been at the forefront of “Highly readable, thoughtful, and dispassionate, this book offers important shaping U.S. policy on North Korea and providing strategic assessments insights into an enigmatic leader who will shape the destiny of not only the for leadership. In this masterly book, she traces and explains Kim's ascent Korean Peninsula but of the Northeast Asian region and the world. It’s the on the world stage, from the brutal purges he carried out to consolidate next best thing to receiving a top-secret CIA briefing.” – Sue Mi Terry, his power, to his abrupt pivot to diplomatic engagement with President former CIA analyst and Korea director at the National Security Council Trump. “Jung H. Pak’s sober but absorbing portrait should be the starting point for Jung H. Pak has held senior positions at the CIA and the Office of the any scholar, journalist, or policymaker trying to make sense of the most Director of National Intelligence. She is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea dangerous regime on earth.” – Michael J. Green, former Asia adviser to Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at the Brookings Institution's Center President George W. Bush for East Asia Policy Studies. LEARNING BY HEART An Unconventional Education By Tony Wagner US publisher: Viking / PRH (World English rights) US editor: Kathryn Court; To publish: April 2020 Material available: Final PDF available Rights sold: Korea (Hanmunhwa) Romania (SC Publica) “A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system.” – Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit One of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes. Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist who has taught at Harvard and MIT; done significant work for the Gates Foundation; and speaks all over the world.