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Groundwork Autobiographical Writings, 1979–2012
Paul Auster
An Updated Collection of Nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude, from Man Booker Prize Finalist Paul Auster
Paul Auster has spent his fifty-year writing career examining what it means to be truly alive. And now, for the first time ever, in this newly self-curated collection, Auster stitches together various autobiographical writings to lay bare the trajectory of both his personal life and sense of self. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY From his breakout memoir, The Invention of Solitude, which solidified Auster’s Picador | 5/5/2020 9781250245809 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. reputation as a canonical voice in American letters, to excerpts from his later Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Carton Qty: 20 memoirs, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior, readers are ushered into 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W | 1.2 in T | 1 lb Wt the inner workings of Auster’s self-development. His sweeping recollection Includes 3 black-and-white photographs winds through the halls of Columbia University during the turbulent 1960s and throughout into life as a young poet-turned-novelist, then dives headfirst into the realities Other Available Formats: that accompany aging today. Along the way, Auster continually challenges the Ebook ISBN: 9781250245816 notion of what autobiography can be, inverting the form through fragmentation and, ultimately, illustrating firsthand the brilliance behind “one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle). MARKETING • Advance Reader Copies • National Print and Online Review PRAISE Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Praise for Paul Auster: Social Media Campaign “Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his • Backlist Promotion storytelling gifts.” —Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle
ALSO AVAILABLE “The most distinguished American writer of [his] generation. . . . Indeed, its only 4 3 2 1: A Novel author . . . with any claim to greatness.” 2/2018 | 9781250160010 —The Spectator Trade Paperback | $18.00 Report from the Interior “Paul Auster is definitely a genius.” —Haruki Murakami 10/2014 | 9781250052292 Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $0.00 Can. Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Day/Night: Travels in the Scriptorium and Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among Man in the Dark 11/2013 | 9781250037879 many other works. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Unpassing A Novel
Chia-Chia Lin
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska
In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of five struggling to make ends meet in rural Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, FICTION / LITERARY holds the house together. When eleven-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at Picador | 7/21/2020 school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn 9781250619457 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 that his little sister Ruby was infected, too. She did not survive. 7.9 in H | 4.9 in W Routine takes over for the grieving family: The siblings care for each other as Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG Dram.: 3 Arts Entertainment they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374279363 when the father, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death, is sued for not Ebook ISBN: 9780374719456 properly installing a septic tank, which results in the death of a little girl. In the Audio ISBN: 9781250253361 ensuing chaos, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges.
With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, MARKETING Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is • National Print and Online Review forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and Coverage subtly suspenseful, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign American dream for a harsher, but ultimately more profound, reality. • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Women’s Interest, and Asian American-Interest PRAISE Websites • Online Reading Group Guide and "The Unpassing is a singularly vast and captivating novel, beautifully written in Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Website: chiachialin.com free-flowing prose that quietly disarms with its intermittent moments of poetic idiosyncrasy. But what makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself, which can just as easily unmake as it can uplift." --Brian Haman, The New York Times Book Review
Chia-Chia Lin is a graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review and other journals. She grew up in Pittsburgh and lives in San Francisco. The Unpassing is her first novel.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) A Novel
Kate Atkinson
National Bestseller
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 8/25/2020 9781250251503 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Other Available Formats: Kate Atkinson's debut novel, a deeply moving and deeply funny family Ebook ISBN: 9781466842663 story of happiness and heartbreak Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780312150600 Ruby Lennox begins narrating her own life at the moment of her conception and from there takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen MARKETING through the eyes of a girl determined to learn more about her family and the • National Print and Online Feature Coverage secrets it keeps. Kate Atkinson's dazzling first novel, named the 1995 Whitbread • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Book of the Year in England, is a darkly comic, deeply moving story of family Social Media Campaign heartbreak and happiness. • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature PRAISE • Author Website: www.kateatkinson.co.uk • Backlist Promotion "Breathtaking...Kate Atkinson's luminescent imagery is sure and sophisticated, poetic and darkly comic...Astonishing."—Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe
"Remarkable...A multigenerational tale of a spectacularly dysfunctional Yorkshire family and one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years."—Ben Macintyre, The New York Times Book Review
"Delivers its jokes and tragedies as efficiently as Dickens once delivered his, though Atkinson has a game plan more sophisticated than Dickens's...Will dazzle readers for years to come."—Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
"Scoundrels, malcontents, misfits, and cheats. Every family has th...
KATE ATKINSON is the author of multiple award-winning and bestselling books, including Transcription, A God in Ruins, Life After Life, Case Histories, Human Croquet, and Emotionally Weird. Her debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize in England. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Find Me A Novel
André Aciman
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meet...
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an FICTION / LITERARY exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Picador | 8/4/2020 9781250758071 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 28 became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student Subrights: 1st serial, audio: FSG with whom he falls in love. British, Translation, dramatic: janklow & Nesbit
Other Available Formats: In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Hardcover ISBN: 9780374155018 Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance Ebook ISBN: 9780374722104 encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and Audio ISBN: 9781250263407 changes his life forever. Audio ISBN: 9781250263414 Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself MARKETING contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • National Print and Online Review Coverage - Summer and Pride Roundups Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional • National Public Radio Campaign nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the • National Broadcast Campaign • National Author Tour magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and love ever dies. Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Culture, and LGBTQ Websites PRAISE • Online Reading Group Guide and Praise for Call Me by Your Name Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Twitter: @aaciman (25.3k followers) “Superb . . . The beauty of Aciman’s writing and the purity of his passions should • Author Website: findmenovel.com place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories • Promotion o... for everyone.” —Charles Kaiser, The Washington Post Book World
“[Call Me by Your Name] is richly, sensuously detailed . . . Luminous . . . Aciman deftly charts a burgeoning relationship that both parties want and fear.” —Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe
André Aciman is the author of Eight White Nights, Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations, and is the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan. 5 PICADOR AUGUST 2020
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Dawson's Fall A Novel
Roxana Robinson
A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning
In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great- grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new FICTION / LITERARY political, social, and moral landscape. Picador | 8/25/2020 9781250619662 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this country as a young Englishman Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states’ Includes one black-and-white frontispiece; plus rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier, finding a bibliography platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Janklow & Nesbit New South. With his wife and two children, he tried to lead a life that adhered to Associates his staunch principles: equal rights, rule of law, and nonviolence, unswayed by 1st ser., audio: FSG the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn’t control the political whims of Other Available Formats: his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of Hardcover ISBN: 9780374135218 citizenship, equality, justice, and slavery, his newspaper rapidly lost readership, Ebook ISBN: 9780374719753 and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims Audio ISBN: 9781250227980 of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor, which threatened to stain his family’s reputation. In the end, Dawson—a man in many ways representative of the country at this time—was MARKETING f... • National Print and Online Review Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and PRAISE Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Social Praise for Dawson's Fall Justice, and History Websites, Including Macmillan’s History Reader • Online Reading Group Guide and “Dawson’s Fall asks what truth means in an era when conviction matters more, Reading Group Gold Feature and Roxana Robinson's answer—that morality is friable—should make us sit up • Author Website: roxanarobinson.com and tremble.” —The New York Times Book Review • Backlist Promotion
“Dawson’s Fall is a remarkable achievement, a fully realized vision of a time and place long gone . . . Most of all I was impressed by the language of this book, at ALSO AVAILABLE once restrained and powerful; the delight in detail; the telling word. This is Sparta: A Novel masterful writing.” —Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth 6/2014 | 9781250050175 Trade Paperback | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Roxana Robinson is the author of five previous novels, including Sparta and Cost; three collections Cost: A Novel of short stories; and the biography Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, 5/2009 | 9780312428464 The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, Trade Paperback | $22.00 / $23.00 Can. among other publications. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was president of the Authors Guild from 2014 to 2017. She teaches in the Hunter MFA program and divides ... 6 PICADOR JULY 2020
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Endeavour The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore
An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world
The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. HISTORY / MARITIME HISTORY & PIRACY The first history of its kind, Peter Moore’s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed Picador | 7/21/2020 the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship’s role in 9781250619433 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Carton Qty: 20 shaping the Western world. The Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his 8.8 in H | 5.8 in W first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast Includes one 16-page black-and-white photo of Australia. Yet she was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control section and 2 black-and-white maps; plus notes, of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as bibliography, index carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Peters Fraser and arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA Dunlop Group ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic 1st ser., audio: FSG symbol of imperialism. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374148416 Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history’s most Ebook ISBN: 9780374715519 important sailing ships and, in turn, shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.
MARKETING • National Print and Online Review PRAISE Coverage “[A] fantastically detailed story . . . a joy of a biography, offering up a blizzard of • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and maritime and political fascinations . . . Moore has written a book that makes the Social Media Campaign case for [Endeavour] both compelling and irrefutable?and offers up besides an • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Scientific, and History Websites, Including immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Macmillan’s History Reader Winchester, The New York Times Book Review • • Author Website: peter-moore.co.uk • Backlist Promotion Peter Moore teaches creative writing at the University of London and the University of Oxford. He • Academic Marketing Campaign is the author of Damn His Blood and The Weather Experiment, which was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2015 and adapted for a BBC4 documentary series. He lives in London.
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Mr. Know-It-All The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
John Waters
The newest essay collection from the New York Times- bestselling John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to / PERSONAL MEMOIRS develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a Picador | 7/21/2020 9781250619464 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: Includes 21 black-and-white illustrations “Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being throughout; plus sources famous. None at all.” Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: The Clegg Agency 1st ser., audio: FSG Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Other Available Formats: Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos Hardcover ISBN: 9780374214968 from the author's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most Ebook ISBN: 9780374715571 Audio ISBN: 9781250223944 hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book—another instant Waters Audio ISBN: 9781250223937 classic.
PRAISE MARKETING Praise for Mr. Know-It-All • National Broadcast Media and NPR Campaign • National Print and Online Review “That John Waters is a national treasure is a surety. Period. Thank you and good Coverage night . . . [Mr. Know-It-All] shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost • Select Author Events • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and frantic desire to impart to us, before he can no longer, his manic mantras, his Social Media Campaign obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Film, Pop actually really enlightening life lessons.” —Alan Cumming, The New York Times Culture, and John Waters Fan Websites • Backlist Promotion Book Review
“[Waters is] an indefatigable coiner of droll one-liners . . . Whether he likes it or not, [Waters] is a Great American Institution. Or maybe he belongs in an ALSO AVAILABLE institution. Either way, we wouldn’t want to be without... Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America 5/2015 | 9780374535452 John Waters’ books Role Models (2010) and Carsick (2014) were national bestsellers, and his Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $22.99 Can. spoken-word shows This Filthy World and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. Indecent Exposure, a retrospective exhibition of Waters’ acclaimed artwork, was Role Models recently shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, 4/2011 | 9780374532864 Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $21.00 Can. Ohio. He is at work on a novel.
Beyond Consolation: How we became too 8 PICADOR JULY 2020
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The Organs of Sense A Novel
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
A lunatic tale about the search for truth—both cosmic and personal
In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—both of his eyes were plucked out under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, FICTION / LITERARY despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day? Picador | 7/28/2020 9781250619440 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—not yet the Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 20 7.2 in H | 4.5 in W | 0.6 in T world-renowned polymath who will go on to discover calculus but a nineteen- year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: ICM Partners astronomer’s claim, and in the three hours before the eclipse occurs—or fails to 1st ser., audio: FSG occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the story behind his strange prediction: a Other Available Formats: tale that encompasses kings and princes, family squabbles, insanity, art, loss, and Hardcover ISBN: 9780374227371 the horrors of war. Ebook ISBN: 9780374719968
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MARKETING "This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, • •National Print and Online Review youthful folly, amusing historyical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author Coverage of Little Labors and American Innovations • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign Adam Ehrlich Sachs is the author of the collection Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables, & • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites • Author Website: adamerlichsachs.com Problems, which was a semifinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and n+1, among other publications, and he was named a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. He has a degree in the history of science from Harvard, where he was a member of The Harvard Lampoo...
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Brown White Black An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Nishta J. Mehra
A beautiful and profound memoir about family, motherhood, race, and raising a black child in America today
In this moving collection of essays from a fresh new voice, Nishta J. Mehra takes us into her life—the daughter of Indian American immigrants, the wife of a white Christian woman from Texas, and the mother of an adopted black child, Shiv. Mehra's life is a series of intersecting boundaries—of race, gender, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / sexuality, and religion—and these essays examine the ways she navigates the ALTERNATIVE FAMILY various communities and ideologies that make up her family's life. This is a Picador | 8/4/2020 9781250295712 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. book about moving between boundaries and establishing a space for yourself Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 36 and your children that doesn't conform to rigid notions of what it means to be a 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W family. Mehra writes movingly of her love for Shiv, and her desire to protect her Subrights: 1st ser., audio: Picador; Brit., trans., child at all costs, even as she also feels responsible for preparing her child for dram.: Massie & McQuilkin the harsh realities of being a black in America today.
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250133557 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250133564 Audio ISBN: 9781250318732 "Nishta Mehra's luminous prose shines...A natural storyteller, she has an original Audio ISBN: 9781427298669 voice, an ear for spoken language, and an eye for the sparkling detail...[Her] writing is at turns crisp and lyrical but always entertaining."—Cara Blue Adams, The Southern Review MARKETING • NEXT Selection • National Print and Online Review NISHTA J. MEHRA was raised among a tight-knit network of Indian immigrants in Memphis, Coverage Tennessee. She is the proud graduate of St. Mary's Episcopal School and holds a B.A. in Religious • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Studies from Rice University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Social Media Campaign Currently a middle school English teacher, she authors the popular food blog Blue Jean Gourmet • Targeted Outreach to Literary, General and lives with her partner, Jill, and their child, Shiv, in a suburb of Houston, Texas. Interest, Parenting, and LGBT, Women's, and African American Interest Websites • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Twitter: @nishtajmehra (2.2k followers) • Author Website: nishtajmehra.com
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Out of the Shadows Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically
Even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While many young gay men now come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds often struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel self-doubt and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by HIV, which is all too often SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT relegated to history. Drawing on his work as a clinical psychologist during and STUDIES / GAY STUDIES in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic, Walt Odets reflects on what it means to Picador | 8/4/2020 survive and find a way to live in a new, uncompromising future, both for the 9781250619488 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 men who endured the upheaval of those years and for the younger men who are 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W now coming of age at a time when HIV is still deeply affecting gay Includes notes, index communities, especially among the most marginalized. Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG Dram.: Gillian MacKenzie Agency Through moving, emotional stories—of friends and patients, and of his own—Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374285852 to futures that are not authentically theirs. He reimagines how we might reframe Ebook ISBN: 9780374719326 gay life by considering everything from the misleading and constraining idea of “the homosexual,” to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical roles of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and aging. MARKETING Crawling out from under the destructive trauma of early-life experience and the • epidemic and emerging into a century of shifting social values provides an • National Print and Online Review opportunity to expl... Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE • Targeted Outreach to Literary and LGBTQ-Interest Websites and Podcasts Praise for Out of the Shadows • Author Website: waltodets.com • Pride Month Promotions • Academic Marketing Campaign “[A] road map for gay people hoping to live fully . . . [Odets's] writing is poignant and achingly beautiful—so much so, in fact, that I occasionally had to put the book down to avoid weeping on the subway . . . Odets and his close friends and lovers should serve as an inspiration to many gay men.” —Benoit Denizet-Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
Walt Odets is a clinical psychologist and writer. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, and has also contributed chapters to seven anthologies about the lives of gay men. He lives in Berkeley, where he has practiced psychology since 1987.
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This Land Is Our Land An Immigrant's Manifesto
Suketu Mehta
A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants
There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the SOCIAL SCIENCE / EMIGRATION worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny--as he explains, the & IMMIGRATION West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. Mehta Picador | 8/4/2020 juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism 9781250619495 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more 7.9 in H | 4.9 in W | 0.8 in T people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate Includes notes, sources, index change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: William Morris become so porous. But Mehta also stresses the destructive legacies of Endeavor Entertainment colonialism and global inequality in large swaths of the world: When today’s 1st ser., audio: FSG immigrants are asked, “Why are you here?” they can justly respond, “We are Other Available Formats: here because you were there.” And now that they are here, immigrants bring Hardcover ISBN: 9780374276027 great benefits--as Mehta demonstrates--enabling countries and communities to Ebook ISBN: 9780374719357 flourish. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and Audio ISBN: 9781250305626 characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention, and a literary polemic of the highest order.
MARKETING PRAISE • National Broadcast Media and NPR Campaign "A meticulously researched and deeply felt corrective to the public narrative of • National Print and Online Review Coverage who today’s migrants are . . . This Land Is Our Land reads like an impassioned • Select Author Events (NYC) survey course on migration, laying bare the origins of mass migration in searing • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and clarity . . . well argued, cathartic and abundantly sourced." —Lauren Markham, Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Liberal The New York Times Book Review Political, Social Justice-Oriented, Immigrant Rights, and History Websites, "There are many mic-drop moments and eminently quotable lines . . . [This Land Including Macmillan’s History Reader • Author Twitter: @suketamehta (26.5k Is Our Land] is a blistering argument that earns its place in this emotional debate. followers) In a news climate dominated by opponents of immigration, Mehta brings personal, • Author Website: suketamehta.com postcolonial and global anguish to a broader American re... • Academic Marketing Ca...
Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, among others. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered. He lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of journalism at New York University.
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The Electric Hotel A Novel
Dominic Smith
The Electric Hotel is a "radiant" (The New York Times) work of historical fiction from the New York Times-bestelling author Dominic Smith, and a spellbinding story of art and love.
For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the Lumière brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking FICTION / LITERARY photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a Picador | 8/4/2020 film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel—the 9781250619679 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Montrose—the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages Includes 31 black-and-white illustrations of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of throughout restoration, as well as Claude’s memories of the woman who inspired and Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG beguiled him. Dram.: Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents
Other Available Formats: The Electric Hotel is a "radiant" (The New York Times) portrait of a man Hardcover ISBN: 9780374146856 entranced by the magic of moviemaking, a luminous romance, and a whirlwind Ebook ISBN: 9780374719692 trip through early cinema. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Audio ISBN: 9781250221346 Audio ISBN: 9781250221339 PRAISE Praise for The Electric Hotel MARKETING • National Print and Online Review Coverage “A vital and highly entertaining work about the act of creation, and about what it • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and means to pick up and move on after you’ve lost everything.” —The New York Social Media Campaign Times • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Film, and History Websites and Book Club Networks, Including Macmillan’s History The Washington Post raved, “An irresistible and dizzying international tale of early Reader cinema. [Smith] is a writer of elegance, rich imagination and propulsive plotting.” • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature —The Washington Post • Author Website: dominicsmith.net • Backlist Promotion Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of the novels The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Bright and Distant Shores, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, and The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and The Australian. He has been a recipient of literature ALSO AVAILABLE grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts. He teaches Exceptional Technologies: a Continental writing in the Warre... Philosophy of Technology 8/2018 | 9781350015616 Trade Paperback | $29.95 / $40.95 Can. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel 4/2017 | 9781250118325 Trade Paperback | $17.00 / $22.50 Can.
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
Aleksandar Hemon
Two books in one in a back-to-back format: the story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood...
In My Parents: An Introduction, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY immigration from Bosnia to Canada—of lives that were upended by the siege of / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. Hemon portrays Picador | 7/21/2020 9781250619648 | $18.00 both the intimate details of his parents’ lives (his mother’s lonely upbringing; his Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 father’s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping history of his native country. It is 8 in H | 5.2 in W | 0.9 in T a story of many Hemons—his parents, sister, uncles, and cousins—and also of Includes one 10-page black-and-white photograph section German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, and a few befuddled Canadians. Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: Aragi, Inc. Audio: FSG My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished in Other Available Formats: the retelling, made exhilarating and fresh in the writing, prompting unexpected Hardcover ISBN: 9780374217433 laughs in the midst of heartbreaking narrative. Ebook ISBN: 9780374716257 Audio ISBN: 9781250232731 This Does Not Belong to You is a freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents—a perfect dose of Hemon's most dazzling and spirited prose, a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and poignant MARKETING • National Print and Online Review miniatures. Presented back-to-back with My Parents, it complements and Coverage completes a major work from a major writer. • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, General In the words of Colum McCann, “Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the Interest, and History Websites, Including greatest writer of our generation.” And the moment has never been more ready Macmillan’s History Reader for his voice—nor has the world ever been more in need of it. • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Website: aleksandarhemon.com PRAISE • Backlist Promotion This Does Not Belong to You is an exhilarating companion to My Parents—an impressionistic recollection of family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo by the writer who "can’t write a boring sentence.” (Gary Shteyngart) ALSO AVAILABLE
The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Making of Zombie Wars; The Book of My Lives, which was 5/2016 | 9781250094629 a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $22.99 Can. the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times The Book of My Lives bestseller; and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the 1/2014 | 9781250043542 National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Genius Trade Paperback | $18.00 / $23.50 Can. Grant from the Mac...
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The History of Living Forever A Novel
Jake Wolff
A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the Elixir of Life
A globe-trotting, century-spanning adventure story, Jake Wolff’s The History of Living Forever follows two young men on separate quests for the Elixir of Life. It dives deep into the mysteries of life—from first love to first heartbreak, from the long pall of grief to the irreconcilable loneliness of depression to the possibility of medical miracles, from coming of age to coming out. Hilarious, FICTION / LITERARY haunting, heart-busting, life-affirming, it asks each of us one of life’s essential Picador | 8/11/2020 questions: How far would you go for someone you love? 9781250619525 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.7 in H | 5.6 in W | 0.9 in T PRAISE
Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: "The mystical and the romantic combine for a love story that also confronts the FSG meaning of life." Other Available Formats: —Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly Hardcover ISBN: 9780374170660 Ebook ISBN: 9780374717513 Audio ISBN: 9781250236142 "Ambitious and bountiful . . . The story is larger than life." —Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed
"One of my favorite books of the month if not the entire summer.... I read this in a MARKETING • An Indie Next Pick in Hardcover night and got just three hours of sleep. Worth it." • National Print and Online Review —Mehera Bonner, Cosmopolitan Coverage • Select Author Events • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and "More than just a briskly plotted thriller, the book is a meditation on love and Social Media Campaign loss.... This beautifully written, carefully plotted, intelligent debut is a melancholy • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites • Online Reading Group Guide and pleasure." Reading Group Gold Feature —Kirkus, starred review • Author Twitter: @Jake_Wolff (1.7k followers) • Author Website: jakewolff.com "Intoxicating . . . [with] epic sweep and sly humor. . . [It] w...
Jake Wolff received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University. His stories and essays have appeared in journals such as Tin House, One Story, and American Short Fiction. He lives in Orlando, Florida, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida.
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A Primer for Forgetting Getting Past the Past
Lewis Hyde
The author of The Gift asks whether forgetting ourselves is really such a terrible thing
We live in a culture that prizes memory—how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear—be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness—but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY peace and forgiveness? / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Picador | 8/11/2020 A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, 9781250619532 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 autobiography, and social criticism. It forges a new “history of forgetfulness” by 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, Includes 24 black-and-white illustrations weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a throughout; plus sources, index philosophical and political force. It also turns inward, using the author’s own life Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long FSG taken as an evil. A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis Other Available Formats: that only Lewis Hyde could have produced. Hardcover ISBN: 9780374237219 Ebook ISBN: 9780374710149 PRAISE "In A Primer for Forgetting, that bold yet gentle intellectual adventurer, Lewis
MARKETING Hyde, harrows the bottomless mysteries of memory and forgetting, trauma and · National Print and Online Review recovery, amnesia and commemoration, reconciliation and forgiveness. If this deep, Coverage poignant, soulful, inquisitive, gently tragic and disarmingly erudite book were nine · Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Promotion times longer, I would still have felt sad when I realized it was coming to an end." · Targeted Outreach to Literary, General —Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow and Bookends Interest, Health & Wellness, Medical and Psychology/Self-Help Sites · Author Website: @lewishyde.com Lewis Hyde is the author of Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art and The Gift: · Backlist Promotion Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, as well as a book of poems, This Error Is the Sign of · Academic Marketing Campaign Love.
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Mother Is a Verb An Unconventional History
Sarah Knott
Blending history and memoir, a beautiful and innovative portrait of motherhood
In Mother Is a Verb, a highly original interpretation of mothering, the writer, feminist, and historian Sarah Knott weaves a tale that begins with her own story, as she grapples with whether to have a child, before expanding into maternity in other places and times. Knott structures the book to mirror the phases of pregnancy and early mothering, and covers everything from miscarriage to SOCIAL SCIENCE / WOMEN'S late-night feedings, from morning sickness to evolving terminologies. Though STUDIES her own story is ever-present—we feel the baby on her hip, always at her Picador | 7/21/2020 side—Knott uses her present moment as a means of exploring the past, drawing 9781250251299 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 on techniques from literary nonfiction and feminist maternal theory's embrace of 8.7 in H | 5.6 in W | 0.8 in T anecdote. She builds a trellis of tiny scenes of mothering, using diaries, letters, Includes one black-and-white frontispiece reports, court records, conduct guides, clothing, and objects, as well as her own Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Janklow & Nesbit experiences. In so doing, Knott creates an unexpectedly moving and visceral Associates depiction of mothering, past and present, as both a shared and an endlessly 1st ser., audio: FSG various human experience. Mothering, in her hands, is bodily and not merely Other Available Formats: biological. Hardcover ISBN: 9780374213589 Ebook ISBN: 9780374714055 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250319456 "An exploration of mothering, a capacious, complex, and creative experience. Historian and mother of two, Knott grounds her illuminating investigation in her MARKETING own experience of pregnancy...A fresh, lively narrative of personal and historical • National Print and Online Review memory."—Kirkus Reviews Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign "This lyrical book—one-third memoir, two-thirds history—guides us through • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Parenting, centuries of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care. Sarah Knott stitches her History, and Women's Interest Websites • Academic Marketing Campaign personal story to vignettes from the past and shows us how everyday mothering differed in time and place. With stunning prose, she gives us the sensory shorn of the sentimental. A riveting read."—Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
SARAH KNOTT grew up in England. Educated at Oxford University, she is a professor of history at Indiana University and the mother of two small children. She is the author of Sensibility and the American Revolution and numerous articles on the histories of women, gender, and emotion. Knott has served as an editor of The American Historical Review and sits on the editorial board of Past and Present. She is a member of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
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Dream Sequence A Novel
Adam Foulds
A bloodcurdling drama about psychological damage, stalking, and the perils of celebrity
Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . Yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for a movie directed by a highly respected Spanish auteur holds the promise of a way forward. Whether holed up in his apartment eating monkish meals of rice FICTION / LITERARY and steamed vegetables or snorting cocaine at desert parties in Doha, Henry’s Picador | 8/11/2020 awareness of his own image, of his relative place in the world, is acute and 9781250619471 | $17.00 constant. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 7.5 in H | 5 in W But Henry has also—unwittingly—become an important part of the life of the Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: recently divorced Kristin. He appears repeatedly on the television in her The Wylie Agency beautiful, empty Philadelphia house, and her social media feeds bring news of Other Available Formats: his London home, his family. What Kristin wants is simply to get as close to him Hardcover ISBN: 9780374143701 in real life as she has in her fandom. Ebook ISBN: 9780374718763 Adam Foulds’s Dream Sequence offers us, through the meticulously observed lives of this contemporary Echo and Narcissus, a stunning and finally terrifying MARKETING • National Print and Online Review vision of what it is to live at this current moment, with the borders between our Coverage inner and outer lives made porous by a world full of flickering screens both • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and large and small. Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary and Thriller/Mystery Websites, including PRAISE Macmillan’s Criminal Element • "Adam Foulds writes like an angel about devilish things . . . The supple, sensuous • Backlist Promotion beauty of his prose is bewitching . . . The pace and tension of a political thriller . . ." —Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists ALSO AVAILABLE in 2013 and the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets in 2014. He is the recipient of a In the Wolf's Mouth: A Novel number of literary awards, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Costa Poetry 5/2016 | 9780374536114 Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature, the Trade Paperback | $15.00 Encore Award, and the European Union Prize for Literature. His novel The Quickening Maze was short-listed for the Man Booker...
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The Sun on My Head Stories
Geovani Martins; Translated from the Portuguese by Julia Sanches
A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro
In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, FICTION / SHORT STORIES where every day is shadowed by a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of Picador | 8/11/2020 the police, and the confines of poverty, violence, and racial oppression. And yet 9781250619501 | $16.00 / $22.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Carton Qty: 60 these are also stories of friendship, romance, and momentary relief, as in 7.1 in H | 4.5 in W “Rolézim,” in which a group of teenagers head to the beach. Other stories, all uncompromising in their realism and yet diverse in narrative form, explore the Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd changes that occur when militarized police occupy the favelas in the lead-up to 1st ser., audio: FSG the World Cup, the cycles of violence in the narcotics trade, and the feelings of
Other Available Formats: invisibility that define the realities of so many in Rio’s underclass. Hardcover ISBN: 9780374223779 Ebook ISBN: 9780374719746 The Sun on My Head is a work of great talent and sensitivity, a daring evocation of life in the favelas by a rising star rooted in the community he portrays.
MARKETING PRAISE • • National Print and Online Review "[The stories are] uncompromising in their realism and yet diverse in narrative Coverage form . . . The Sun on My Head is a work of great talent and sensitivity, a daring • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign evocation of life in the favelas by a rising star rooted in the community he • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites portrays." —Paris Close, Paperback Paris • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature • Academic Marketing Campaign "With slang-laden, boldly voiced prose that grounds readers in a unique place, Martins transports readers to the streets and beaches of Rio. In much the way that Edward P. Jones’ writing breathes life into the Washington D.C. that lies beyond Pennsylvania Avenue, Martins’ stories animate and humanize the people of a city whose humanity is often obscured by its own repu...
Geovani Martins was born in 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He grew up with his mother and grandmother in the Rio neighborhood of Rocinha. He supported his writing by working as a sandwich-board man and selling drinks on the beach, and was discovered during creative writing workshops at Flup, the literary festival of the Rio favelas. The Sun on My Head is his first book.
Brazilian by birth, Julia Sanches has lived in the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, Scotland, and Catalonia. She translates ...
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This Is Not a T-Shirt A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear
Bobby Hundreds
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself.
Streetwear exists in that rarefied space where genuine “cool” coexists with big business; where a star designer might work simultaneously with Nike, a tattoo BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY artist, Louis Vuitton, and a skateboard company. It’s the ubiquitous style of dress / BUSINESS comprising hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts that is worn by everyone from Picador | 7/7/2020 rappers to models to book editors. In the beginning, a few brands defined this 9781250619655 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 style; fewer still survived as streetwear went mainstream. They are the OGs, the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W “heritage brands.” The Hundreds is one of those companies, and Bobby Includes one 16-page full color photograph insert Hundreds is at the center of it all. plus 5 black-and-white illustrations throughout
Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG Bobby Kim, a.k.a. Bobby Hundreds, is the cofounder of The Hundreds, one of Dram.: United Agents the first streetwear brands to go global. The creative force behind the brand, he Other Available Formats: has emerged as one of streetwear’s most prominent faces and voices. But Hardcover ISBN: 9780374275792 growing up as one of the only Asian American kids in a mostly white and Latino Ebook ISBN: 9780374718350 community, a year ahead of his peers, with artistic aspirations, he reminds us Audio ISBN: 9781250236173 that The Hundreds was started by outsiders and that that is truly the story of streetwear culture.
MARKETING In This Is Not a T-Shirt, Bobby Hundreds cements his spot as a champion of an • National Bestseller • National Broadcast Media, Radio, and industry he helped create, celebrating the inspirations that birthed The Podcast Interviews Targeting Pop Culture, Hundreds—from his Southern California, punk-DIY-tinged youth to the brand’s Hip-Hop, and Fashion Outlets explosive success. His story is both inspir... • National Print and Online Review Coverage • National Author Events Bobby Kim, also known as Bobby Hundreds, is an illustrator, documentarian, designer, and writer. • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and In 2003, he co-founded The Hundreds, a global men’s streetwear brand and editorial platform, with Social Media Campaign Ben Shenassafar and a few hundred bucks. The two are also partners in Second Sons, a brand • Targeted Outreach to Literary, development group that incubates, structures, and facilitates other small businesses. Bobby lives in Fashion/Streetwear, and Pop Culture Los Angeles with his wife and two sons. He also feels like notes about the author are redundant for Websites memoirs. • Author Twitter: @bobbyhundreds (77.8k followers) • Author Website: https://thehundreds.com /blogs/bobby-h...
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Flash Count Diary Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
Darcey Steinke
"[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire this book. I want everyone to read this...
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical SOCIAL SCIENCE / WOMEN'S transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and STUDIES Picador | 8/11/2020 eradicate. Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the 9781250619686 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. ultimate expression of womanhood. Menopause is seen as a harbinger of death. Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 32 Some books Steinke found promoted hormone replacement therapy. Others 7.5 in H | 5 in W encouraged acceptance. But Steinke longed to understand menopause in a more Includes notes complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way. Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: The Wylie Agency Audio: FSG In Flash Count Diary, Steinke writes frankly about aspects of Menopause that have rarely been written about before. She explores the changing gender Other Available Formats: landscape that comes with reduced hormone levels, and lays bare the Hardcover ISBN: 9780374156114 Ebook ISBN: 9780374716165 transformation of female desire and the realities of prejudice against older Audio ISBN: 9781250228468 women. Weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, Steinke reveals that in the seventeenth century, women who had hot flashes in front of others could be accused of being witches; that the model for MARKETING Duchamp's famous Étant donnés was a post-reproductive woman; and that killer • National Public Radio and Podcast whales—one of the only other species on earth to undergo menopause—live Campaign long post-reproductive lives. • National Print and Online Review Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Flash Count Diary, with its deep research, open play of ideas, and reverence fo... Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Women’s PRAISE Interest, Feminist, Health/Wellness, and Medical/Scientific Websites Praise for Darcey Steinke • Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Twitter: @DarceySteinke (3.3k “Sentence by sentence, a brilliant piece of writing suffused with all Steinke’s followers) characteristic wit, darkness, and profundity . . . I trust her deeply, will go • Author Website: darceysteinke.com wherever she wants to take me.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
“I became riveted by Steinke’s tone, a steady, lovely, hallowed, patient, things- ALSO AVAILABLE in-themselves hum.” —Stephen Metcalf, The New York Times Book Review Easter Everywhere: A Memoir 3/2008 | 9781596911383 Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Trade Paperback | $14.95 / $16.50 Can. Suicide Blonde, Up Through the Water, and Sister Golden Hair. With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Milk: A Novel Noise: The New Testament Revisited. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her 4/2007 | 9781596910270 nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin, The Trade Paperback | $9.95 / $11.00 Can. Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. She has been both a Henry Hoyns 21 PICADOR AUGUST 2020
Roughhouse Friday A Memoir
Jaed Coffin
“Roughhouse Friday is as bare and intimate a rendering of masculinity, of young adulthood, of being human as I have ever read. This is a fearless and exquisite work of art.” —Lily King, author of...
While lifting weights in the gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard the distinctive whacking sound of sparring boxers down the hall. A year out of college, he had been biding his time as a tutor at a local high school in Sitka, Alaska, without any particular life plan. That evening, Coffin joined a ragtag boxing club. For the first time, he felt like he fit in.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS Coffin washed up in Alaska after a forty-day solo kayaking journey. Born to an Picador | 8/4/2020 American father and a Thai mother who had met during the Vietnam War, Coffin 9781250619549 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. never felt particularly comfortable growing up in his rural Vermont town. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Following his parents’ prickly divorce and a childhood spent drifting between 7.9 in H | 5 in W his father’s new white family and his mother’s Thai roots, Coffin didn’t know Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Dunow, Carlson & who he was, much less what path his life should follow. His father’s notions Lerner Literary Agency, Inc. 1st ser., audio: FSG about what it meant to be a man—formed by King Arthur legends and calcified in the military—did nothing to help. After college, he took to the road, working Other Available Formats: odd jobs and sleeping in his car before heading north. Hardcover ISBN: 9780374251956 Ebook ISBN: 9780374720391 Audio ISBN: 9781250234018 Despite his initial fear, Coffin learns to fight. His coach, Victor “the Savage,” invites him to participate in the monthly Roughhouse Friday competition, where men contend for the title of best boxer in southeast Alaska. With every MARKETING successive match, Coffin realizes that he isn’t just fighting for the championship • National Print and Online Review belt; he is also learning to confront the anger he feels about a past he never k... Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Sports, Parenting, and Men’s Interest Websites “Roughhouse Friday is one of the most convincing memoirs I have read tracking • Online Reading Group Guide and the mysterious course of an obsession—in this case, an obsession with fighting (i.e., Reading Group Gold Feature “boxing”) against all odds of success and in the face of much risk. It’s a touching • Author Website: jaedcoffin.com document, candid, utterly convincing in its myriad details of American manhood and in the clarity with which the young, aspiring boxer assesses his life. ” —Joyce Carol Oates
“Underneath an enjoyable, rough-and-tumble ‘boy’s search for meaning’ lies a memoir with hidden depths and subtleties. In Jaed Coffin’s quixotic journey to become heroic in his father’s gaze, his desire to be a formidable or ...
Jaed Coffin is the author of the memoir A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants and teaches in the University of New Hampshire’s MFA creative writing program. He lives in Brunswick, Maine.
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Stay and Fight A Novel
Madeline ffitch
A wildly original, piercingly timely addition to the story of the American family
"The story is told in the alternating voices of Helen, Karen, Lily, and Perley, and Ffitch navigates their personalities beautifully, creating complex, brilliantly realized characters. As the stakes rise, for both the family and the preservation of the region, the novel skewers stereotypes and offers only a messy, real depiction of people who fully embody the imperative of the novel’s title. This is a stellar FICTION / LITERARY novel." Picador | 8/18/2020 —Publishers Weekly, starred review 9781250619556 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a family, to live well, to make peace with nature and make deals Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: William Morris with the system. It is a protest novel that challenges our notions of effective Endeavor Entertainment 1st ser., audio: FSG action. It is a family novel that refuses to limit the term. And it is a marvel of storytelling that both breaks with tradition and celebrates it. Best of all, it is full Other Available Formats: of flawed, cantankerous, flesh-and-blood characters who remind us that conflict Hardcover ISBN: 9780374268121 Ebook ISBN: 9780374719715 isn't the end of love, but the real beginning. Audio ISBN: 9781250245663 Absorbingly spun, perfectly voiced, and disruptively political, Madeline ffitch's Stay and Fight forces us to reimagine an Appalachia—and an America—we MARKETING think we know. And it takes us, laughing and fighting, into a new understanding • A FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES of what it means to love and to be free. BOOK PRIZE • A July 2019 Indie Next Pick in Hardcover PRAISE • National Print and Online Review Coverage "ffitch's powerful debut beautifully illustrates how the bonds forged during • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising hardship can become the rope that saves you." and Social Media Campaign —BookPage • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Women’s Interest, and LGBTQ Interest Websites "A motley, makeshift family . . . must figure out how to preserve the things they • Online Reading Group Guide and love . . . and determine what's worth fighting against and for." Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Website: madelineffitch.com —Nylon, "One of 35 Great Books to Read This Summer"
"A cleareyed, largehearted take on the social protest novel." —Kirkus
“The fiercest, wisest book about parenting that I’ve read in a very long time.” —Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles
“If Carolyn Chute and Larry Brown and Carson McCullers had a love child, it might be Madeline ffitch’s brutal and bri...
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Among Flowers A Walk in the Himalaya
Jamaica Kincaid
A master novelist travels to the Himalaya in search of seeds in this classic travel memoir
If you could go anywhere in the world and do one thing you love, what would you choose? When given that opportunity, the acclaimed writer Jamaica Kincaid decided to trek through Nepal collecting seeds to plant in her garden at home in Vermont. Among Flowers is the story of that journey through the Himalayan landscape, as Kincaid and her companions navigate not only the perilous BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY physical terrain but also Maoist guerrillas and fields of leeches that stand in their / PERSONAL MEMOIRS way. The vertiginous peaks and exotic plants come alive in Kincaid’s masterful Picador | 7/7/2020 prose. She also ruminates on the wonders of the natural world that can only be 9780374538101 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 discovered when one leaves the comfort of home for the disorienting thrill of the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W unknown, and self-reflects on the limitations of the body and the privileges that Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout come with chartering a trip through the Himalaya. Rich in detail and Subrights: UK, trans., dram., 1st ser., audio: engrossingly told, Among Flowers is a classic travel memoir. Wylie
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See Now Then: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, 2/2014 | 9780374534363 Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, and Mr. Potter, all published by Trade Paperback | $13.00 / $15.00 Can. FSG. She lives with her family in Vermont. The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel 5/2013 | 9780374531874 Trade Paperback | $16.00 / $0.00 Can. Mr. Potter: A Novel 7/2003 | 9780374528744 Trade Paperback | $15.00 / $19.50 Can.
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Jacob's Ladder A Novel
Ludmila Ulitskaya; Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon
The modern Tolstoy presents a family saga spanning a century of Russian history.
One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, which has been devoted to FICTION / LITERARY sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Picador | 7/21/2020 9781250619563 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Carton Qty: 16 Spanning the seeming promise of the prerevolutionary years, to the dark Stalinist 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W era, to the corruption and confusion of the present day, Jacob’s Ladder is a Includes one family tree pageant of romance, betrayal, and memory. With a scale worthy of Tolstoy, it Subrights: Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG asks how much control any of us have over our lives—and how much is in fact Trans., dram.: Elkost International Literary determined by history, by chance, or indeed by the genes passed down by the Agency generations that have preceded us into the world. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374293659 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9780374715908 "A sweeping, ambitious story reminiscent at times of Pasternak in its grasp of both history and tragedy." --Kirkus Review MARKETING • National Print and Online Review Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russia’s most popular and renowned literary figures. A former Coverage scientist and the director of Moscow’s Hebrew Repertory Theater, she is the author of more than a • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and dozen works of fiction, including The Big Green Tent; several tales for children; and multiple plays Social Media Campaign that have been staged by a number of theaters in Russia and Germany. She has won Russia’s Man • Targeted Outreach to Literary and Russian/General History Websites, Booker Prize and twice won its Big Book Prize, and has been nominated for the Man Booker Including Macmillan’s History Reader International Prize. • Backlist Promotion • Academic Marketing Campaign Polly Ga...
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Coventry Essays
Rachel Cusk
From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of LITERARY COLLECTIONS / her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of ESSAYS her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most personal, Picador | 7/7/2020 social, and artistic questions. 9781250619587 | $17.00 Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Subrights: Brit., 1st ser., audio, trans., dram.: The Wylie Agency Françoise Sagan, and Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to Other Available Formats: me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being Hardcover ISBN: 9780374126773 Ebook ISBN: 9780374717438 sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
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Rachel Cusk is the author of a trilogy of novels, Outline, Transit, and Kudos; the memoirs A Life’s ALSO AVAILABLE Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath; and several other novels: Saving Agnes, winner of the Kudos: A Novel Whitbread Award; The Temporary; The Country Life, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; 4/2019 | 9781250207395 The Lucky Ones; In the Fold; Arlington Park; and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one Trade Paperback | $17.00 of Granta’s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London. Transit: A Novel 12/2017 | 9781250151797 Trade Paperback | $17.00 Outline: A Novel 2/2016 | 9781250081544 Trade Paperback | $17.00
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We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Jonathan Safran Foer
The New York Times–bestselling author offers a mind-bending and potentially world-changing call to action on climate change
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe in it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act, to make sacrifices now to prevent calamity in the future. How are we, ordinary civilians, supposed to do anything about a crisis for which SOCIAL SCIENCE / we can barely sustain concern, of which our understanding is so incomplete, and AGRICULTURE & FOOD from which we cannot imagine an escape? Will future generations distinguish Picador | 8/4/2020 between those who didn’t believe in the science of climate change and those 9781250757975 | $17.00 Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 who said they accepted the science but didn't act? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Appendix, Notes, Bibliography In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central dilemma of Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: Aragi, Inc. our time in a surprising, creative, and urgent new way. We have, he reveals, Audio: FSG turned our planet into a farm for growing meat, and the consequences are catastrophic. With the future of our home at stake, the time has come to consider Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374280000 how our descendants will judge our actions at this crucial moment. Collective Ebook ISBN: 9780374712525 action is needed. We might be able to pull it off—and it all starts with what we Audio ISBN: 9781250316905 eat, and don’t eat, for breakfast and lunch. Audio ISBN: 9781250316899
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“Stirring . . . Compelling, earnest . . . Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic.” —Entertainment Weekly
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre A Novel
B. Traven
A cult masterpiece--the adventure novel that inspired John Huston's classic film, by the elusive author who inspired books one and five of 2666
Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born FICTION / WESTERNS Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein and that he escaped a death sentence for his Picador | 7/7/2020 9781250625175 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. involvement with the anarchist underground in Bavaria. Traven spent most of his Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 adult life in Mexico, where, under various names, he wrote several bestsellers 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W and was an outspoken defender of the rights of Mexico's indigenous people. Subrights: Brit., trans, audio, dram: TK First published in 1935, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is Other Available Formats: Traven's most famous and enduring work, the dark, savagely ironic, and riveting Ebook ISBN: 9780374722609 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780809092970 story of three down-and-out Americans hunting for gold in Sonora.
MARKETING PRAISE • National Print and Online Review and "Traven's philosophical anarchism, his disengagement, his scorn for regimentation Feature Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and and material goods and his love of individual liberty and the primitive past could, Social Media Campaign conceivably, command as much reverence form the new generation as does Henry • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Film, History, and Crime/Mystery Websites, David Thoreau."—William Weber Johnson, Los Angeles Times Including Macmillan’s Criminal Element • Online Reading Group Guide and "He tells his story better than the best storytellers; delves deeper into characters Reading Group Gold Feature than most so-called psychological writers. All the virility, terseness and tension that Hemingway worked so hard for . . . seem to be Traven's by birthright."—John Anthony West, Books and Bookmen
B. Traven (1882? - 1969) was a pen name of the most engimatic writer of the twentieth century. His other aliases include Hal Croves, Traven Torsvan and Ret Marut. Born in Germany or Chicago, Traven spent much of his adult life in Mexico. He once wrote "I shall always and at all times prefer to be pissed on by dogs than reveal who I am." He is a model for Archimboldi, the hero of Roberto Bolano's 2666.
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Enchantment A Novel
Daphne Merkin; With a New Foreword by Vivian Gornick
Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage—her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself—are as disquieting in their sharpness as they are lucid in their irony.
The world, she finds, is a treacherous place where love is closely knit with pain, but even the limitations of her own point of view are not lost on Hannah. She is all too aware that her perspective is fixed in the vise of her childhood: “My mother,” she says, “is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only FICTION / LITERARY person who can make me feel at home in the world.” Picador | 7/14/2020 9780374140397 | $17.00 Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 PRAISE 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W "A lively, evocative, often amusing work. Through Hannah's voice, Merkin deftly Subrights: Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG captures the concentration on self-definition—as well as the doubt and trans., dram.: Regal Literary frustration—of dawning womanhood . . . A pioneering novel."—Janet Hadda, Los Other Available Formats: Angeles Times Ebook ISBN: 9780374711948
“Much of the power of Enchantment comes from its directness—almost, at times, its brazenness—and from its determination to hold nothing back . . . A story that MARKETING • Co-Promotion with 22 MINUTES OF draws the reader on unresisting. ”—The New York Times UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (FSG, 7/7/20) • National Print and Online Feature Daphne Merkin is the author of several books, including the essay collection The Fame Lunches Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and and the memoir This Close to Happy. She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and her Social Media Campaign writing frequently appears in The New York Times, Bookforum, Travel + Leisure, W, Vogue, Tablet • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites Magazine, and other publications. She has taught writing at the 92nd Street Y, Marymount College, • Backlist Promotion and Hunter College. She lives in New York City.
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The Weil Conjectures On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Karen Olsson
An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration
Karen Olsson always had an aptitude for math but wasn’t exactly a prodigy. And yet when she entered Harvard as an undergraduate she was drawn to it, forcing herself into a discipline that had always felt just beyond her reach. As a math student then and as a writer now, she was and is chasing a feeling—the brink of breakthrough, the flash of insight. For Olsson, and for her newest obsession, the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Weil siblings, creative thought rests on the making of unlikely connections. Thus / SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The Weil Conjectures—a beguiling blend of biography and memoir and a Picador | 7/21/2020 meditation on the creative life. 9781250619570 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 7.9 in H | 5.1 in W | 0.6 in T In The Weil Conjectures, Olsson narrates the story of the Weil siblings—Simone, the famous French philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and her brother, Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: Williams & Connolly LLP André, the influential yet often overlooked mathematician—as well as the lore Audio: FSG of math and Olsson’s own experience of it. During her research, Olsson got hold of the 1940 letters between Simone and André. The letters forced her to revisit Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374287610 her college years and to reassess her present-day life in the hopes of Ebook ISBN: 9780374719630 understanding the place of math, and unattainable knowledge, in her own world.
Personal and revealing, and avoiding theorems and numbers, Olsson eloquently MARKETING explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes, the • National Print and Online Review most inexplicable of passions turn out to be the most rewarding. Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE • Targeted Outreach to Literary and Scientific/Mathematics “The Weil Conjectures is a charming meditation on geometry, sacrifice, and • adolescent self-discovery, delivered in passionate, impressionistic bursts.” --Jordan • Author Website: karenolsson.com Ellenberg, New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong • Backlist Promotion • Academic Marketing Campaign Karen Olsson is the author of the novels Waterloo, which was a runner-up for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and All the Houses. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Bookforum, and Texas Monthly, among other publications, and she is also a ALSO AVAILABLE former editor of The Texas Observer. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics and lives in Austin, Texas, with her family. All the Houses: A Novel 4/2017 | 9781250097439 Trade Paperback | $20.00 / $27.25 Can. Waterloo: A Novel 11/2006 | 9780312425593 Trade Paperback | $23.00 / $24.99 Can.
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Christ Stopped at Eboli The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi; Translated by Frances Frenaye
Part autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir—a reissue of Carlo Levi's classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
"There should be a history of this Italy, a history outside the framework of time, confining itself to that which is changeless and eternal, in other words, a mythology. This Italy has gone its way in darkness and silence, like the earth, in a sequence of recurrent seasons and recurrent misadventures. Every outside BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY influence has broken over it like a wave, without leaving a trace." / LITERARY Picador | 7/14/2020 9781250623089 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. So wrote Carlo Levi—doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of conscience—in Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 describing the land and the people of Lucania, where he was banished in 1935, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W at the start of the Ethiopian war, because of his opposition to Fascism. In the Includes one black-and-white map south of Italy, Lucania was a barren land —a harsh white landscape largely Subrights: All rights: Sanford J. Greeburger stripped of trees—inhabited by peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors Associates had, grimly coaxing a subsistence existence from the stony land and constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In describing their lives and Other Available Formats: history, and in exploring their surroundings, Carlo Levi offered a starkly Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780374530099 beautiful and deeply moving account of a place beyond hope and a people abandoned by history.
MARKETING PRAISE • National Print and Online Feature Coverage "Carlo Levi’s memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli was a literary sensation in • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and post-Fascist Italy. First published in 1945, the book is Levi’s memorable account of Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites life among impoverished Italian villagers in the 1930s." —J. Hoberman, New York • Academic Marketing Campaign Times
Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was trained as a doctor but is best known as a writer. Among his other books are Words Are Stone, The Watch, and travel books on Russia, Germany, and Italy.
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A State at Any Cost The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Tom Segev; Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman
The definitive and newsworthy biography of Israel’s founder and longest-serving prime minister
When Tom Segev’s biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines and earning worldwide coverage in The New York Times and elsewhere. The culmination of a lifetime’s work, A State at Any Cost casts the history of Israel and its founder in a bracing new light. Using large amounts of previously unrevealed archival material, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Segev demonstrates Ben-Gurion’s power, skills, and achievements, as well as his / POLITICAL limitations, weaknesses, and failures. Segev’s probing account reveals for the Picador | 8/4/2020 first time Ben-Gurion’s secret negotiations with the British on the eve of Israel’s 9781250750129 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 816 pages | Carton Qty: 12 independence, his willingness to countenance the forced transfer of Arab 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W neighbors, his relative indifference to the status of Jerusalem and Israel’s nuclear Includes one 8-page black-and-white program, and his occasional “nutty moments”—from UFO sightings to a plan photograph section; 2 black-and-white for Israel to acquire territory in South America. Segev also shows that illustrations throughout; plus notes, bibliography, index Ben-Gurion first heard about the Holocaust from a Palestinian Arab acquaintance, and reveals Ben-Gurion’s tempestuous private life, including the Subrights: Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG testimony of four longtime lovers. Trans., dram.: The Deborah Harris Agency Other Available Formats: Many admired Ben-Gurion in his day, and many now miss his vision and Hardcover ISBN: 9780374112646 inspiration, his boldness and integrity. Others have vilified him as an aggressive, Ebook ISBN: 9781429951845 divisive, dour, and often capricious politician. But only a few have really grasped the most intimate and guarded aspects of his complex character, the man behind the myth. As in his seven... MARKETING • National Print and Online Review Coverage Tom Segev is among Israel’s leading journalists and historians. His works include The Seventh • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Million; 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East; Simon Wiesenthal; Social Media Campaign and One Palestine, Complete (chosen one of ten best books of 2000 by The New York Times). • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Jewish- Interest, Political and History Websites, Haim Watzman is a Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator. He is the author, most Including Macmillan’s History Reader recently, of Necessary Stories, a collection of short fiction. His previous books are Company C: An • Backlist Promotion American’s Life as a Citize... • Academic Marketing Campaign
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The Catholic School A Novel
Edoardo Albinati; Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre
The winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, the Strega Prize, The Catholic School is one of the most arresting and haunting works of European literature to have appeared in the twenty-first century.
FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 9/22/2020 In 1975, three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious 9781250625342 | $25.00 / $34.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 1280 pages | Carton Qty: 12 all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured and raped 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W two young women, killing one of them. The crime, known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and obsessed all of Italy, exposing the violence and dark Subrights: Brit.: Picador UK 1st ser., audio: FSG underbelly of the upper-middle class at a moment when the traditional structures Trans., dram.: Grandi & Associati of family and religion were seen as under threat.
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374119256 Ebook ISBN: 9780374717452 It is this environment—the halls of San Leone Magno and the homes of the Audio ISBN: 9781250232748 families who sent their sons there in the late 1960s and the 1970s—that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject in The Catholic School. His experiences in school as well as his reflections on his adolescence and on the forces that produced the MARKETING toxic culture of contemporary Italy add up to a remarkable blend of memoir, • National Print and Online Review coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Social Media Campaign Cosmo, and his one Fascist friend, Max—Albinati gives us nuanced ruminations • Targeted Outreach to Literary and on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship of Crime/Mystery Websites, Including masculinity, sex, and violence. Macmillan’s Criminal Element • Academic Marketing Campaign
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“[In] The Catholic School a thousand doors open on a thousand different themes . . . A powerful, multifaceted, acute, extreme book.” —La Repubblica
“A powerful river of a book . . . And above all a profound meditation on evil.” —Filippo La Porta, Il Messaggero
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Valerie or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel
Sara Stridsberg; Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, FICTION / LITERARY and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. Picador | 8/4/2020 9781250619594 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: Hedlund Literary Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was Agency repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the 1st ser., audio: FSG mental hospitals where she was shut away. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374151911 A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Ebook ISBN: 9780374720612 Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she MARKETING reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time • National Print and Online Review to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light. Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Women’s Interest, and Feminist Websites "Inventive and stimulating . . . As each new piece of Stridsberg’s portrait of • Academic Marketing Campaign Valerie is added, it alters the big picture, provocatively. The novel is as much about how little one can understand other people as it is about Valerie’s life. Stridsberg entertainingly casts new light on both Solanas and on how society views pop culture." —Publishers Weekly
“This is a brilliant re-imagining of the life and times of one of America’s great cultural icons. If Solanas was alive I’m sure she’d be amazed (and perhaps even gratified) to see what poetic feeling her remarkable destiny has aroused.” —Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the City
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Sara Stridsberg is an internationally acclaimed writer and playwright. Her fiction and nonfiction books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former member of the Swedish Academy, she is a leading feminist and artist in her native Sweden and around the world. Valerie is her North American debut.
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The Bells of Old Tokyo Meditations on Time and a City
Anna Sherman
In the tradition of Olivia Laing and Susan Orlean, a beautiful and profound exploration of the history and culture of Tokyo and its residents that is a mix of memoir, cultural history, and journa...
The Bells of Old Tokyo is a remarkable literary debut by Anna Sherman that is an elegant and insightful tour of Tokyo and its residents, as well as a meditation on Japanese culture and society. The book is structured around Anna’s search for HISTORY / ASIA / JAPAN the eight lost bells that once surrounded the city. These bells marked the city’s Picador | 8/25/2020 9781250206428 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. neighborhoods and kept time for its inhabitants before the introduction of Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Western-style clocks. The bells are tangible vestiges of a much older Japan—one 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W that believed in time as represented by animals, rather than minutes and hours, a Subrights: UK, trans., dram.: Picador UK; 1st circle rather than a forward line. Similarly, the book moves in and out of time as ser., audio: Picador US we are introduced to Tokyo residents past and present: An aristocrat who makes
Other Available Formats: his way through Tokyo’s sea of ashes after WWII’s firebombs. A shrine priest Hardcover ISBN: 9781250206404 who remembers Yukio Mishima praying before his infamous death. A scientist Ebook ISBN: 9781250206411 who has built the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a Audio ISBN: 9781250232151 second in five billion years. The head of the Tokugawa house, the family that used to rule Tokyo, reflecting on the destruction of his grandfathers’ city (“A lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness”). And woven throughout is Anna’s MARKETING deep friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite coffee shop who believes • National Print and Online Review that if you make coffee just right, and allow people the time to enjoy it, they will Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and return to their “true selves.” Social Media Campaign • Targeted Outreach to Literary, The Bells of Old Tokyo marks the arrival of a dazzling new... Culture/Arts, Travel, Japanophile, and History Websites, Including Macmillan’s History Reader PRAISE • Academic Marketing Campaign "A completely extraordinary book, unlike anything I have read before. At once modest in tone and vast in scale and ambition, The Bells of Old Tokyo extends in all directions, delicately wrought, precise, unfaltering, lucid and strange as a dream. I haven’t felt so excited about an investigation into place since I first read Rings of Saturn. Like Sebald, Sherman is concerned with war, brutality, nostalgia and loss, but her search for the meaning of time is also radiant and absolutely humane."--Olivia Laing, author of Crudo and The Lonely City
“The Bells of Old Tokyo is part personal memoir, part cultural history, but wholly unique. The fragile,...
ANNA SHERMAN was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and Oxford before moving to Tokyo in 2001. The Bells of Old Tokyo is her first book.
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Learning from the Germans Race and the Memory of Evil
Susan Neiman
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germa...
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans delivers an SOCIAL SCIENCE / urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its DISCRIMINATION & RACE RELATIONS historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil Picador | 8/11/2020 rights–era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in 9781250750112 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she combines philosophical Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 reflection, personal stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Includes notes, bibliography, index who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories.
Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: Through discussions with Germans, including Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who The Wylie Agency created the breakthrough Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibit, and Friedrich Other Available Formats: Schorlemmer, the East German dissident preacher, Neiman tells the story of the Hardcover ISBN: 9780374184469 Ebook ISBN: 9780374715526 long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, she interviews James Meredith about his battle for equality in Mississippi and Bryan Stevenson about his monument to the victims of lynching, as well as lesser-known social justice activists in the MARKETING • National Print and Online Review South, to provide a compelling picture of the work contemporary Americans are Coverage doing to confront our violent history. In clear and gripping prose, Neiman urges • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and us to consider the nuanced forms that evil can assume, so that we can recognize Social Media Campaign and avoi... • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Politics, Social Justice, and History Websites, Including Macmillan’s History Reader PRAISE • Author Twitter: www.susan-neiman.de • Backlist Promotion Praise for Learning from the Germans • Academic Marketing Campaign "[Learning from the Germans] presents an insightful comparative analysis of post-WWII German sentiments about Nazi atrocities alongside southern American attitudes about the Civil War and slavery, suggesting how Americans might better come to terms with their country’s history . . . [Neiman's] commentary is thoughtful and perceptive, her comparison timely. This exceptional piece of historical and political philosophy provides a meaningful way of looking at the Civil War’s legacy." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Equality An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
Charles Postel
An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian
The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1886, Charles HISTORY / UNITED STATES / Postel demonstrates how taking stock of these movements forces us to rethink 19TH CENTURY some of the central myths of American history. Picador | 8/11/2020 9781250619631 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Despite a nationwide push for equality, egalitarian impulses oftentimes clashed 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W with one another. These dynamics get to the heart of the great paradox of the Includes notes, selected bibliography, index fifty years following the Civil War and of American history at large: Waves of Subrights: Audio, dram.: Sandra Dijkstra Literary agricultural, labor, and women’s rights movements were accompanied by the Agency deepening of racial discrimination and oppression. Herculean efforts to Brit., Trans., 1st ser.: FSG overcome the economic inequality of the first Gilded Age and the sexual Other Available Formats: inequality of the late-Victorian social order emerged alongside Native American Hardcover ISBN: 9780809079636 dispossession, Chinese exclusion, Jim Crow segregation, and lynch law. Ebook ISBN: 9781429946926 Now, as Postel argues, the twenty-first century has ushered in a second Gilded Age of savage socioeconomic inequalities. Convincing and learned, Equality MARKETING explores the roots of these social fissures and speaks urgently to the need for • National Print and Online Review expansive strides toward equality to meet our contemporary crisis. Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE • Targeted Outreach to Literary, Politics, Social Justice, and History Websites, "Americans today are torn by the fierce politics of inequality, but not for the first Including Macmillan’s History Reader time in our history. Charles Postel's urgent yet subtle account of the first • Academic Marketing Campaign American Gilded Age ought to be required reading for understanding the nation's long egalitarian tradition, with lessons for confronting our second Gilded Age." —Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy
Charles Postel is the author of The Populist Vision, which received the 2008 Bancroft Prize and the 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians. He is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and was elected to the Society of American Historians in 2018.
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Weschler
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient
The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY masterpiece Awakenings--the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous / MEDICAL but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly Picador | 8/11/2020 been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. 9781250619600 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Over the ensuing four years, the two men worked closely together until, for 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W wracking personal reasons, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile, a Includes 1 black-and-white frontispiece and 28 request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends, however, black-and-white illustrations throughout; plus across the next thirty years and then, just as Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler index to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio: FSG Dram.: Chris Calhoun Agency Weschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid Other Available Formats: relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We Hardcover ISBN: 9780374236410 see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that Ebook ISBN: 9780374714949 would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed MARKETING to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the i... • National Print and Online Review Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Lawrence Weschler, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR, is the Social Media Campaign director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU, and the author of nearly • Targeted Outreach to Literary and twenty books, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Medical/Scientific Websites of Wonder, Everything That Rises, and Vermeer in Bosnia. • Author Website: lawrenceweschler.com
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When the Plums Are Ripe A Novel
Patrice Nganang; Translated from the French by Amy B. Reid
The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II
Three years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mount Pleasant, Patrice Nganang returns to his native country in When the Plums Are Ripe, the second volume in a magisterial trilogy about the birth of modern Cameroon.
FICTION / LITERARY In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the Picador | 8/11/2020 narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the season brings to mind “the time when 9781250619617 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. our country discovered, if not the crux of its own violence, then that of the Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W world; when it sent off along the road through the desert its many sons . . . just Includes one black-and-white frontispiece and like the fruit sellers toss away each evening the plums they haven’t been able to one black-and-white map grill.” Subrights: Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG Trans., dram.: Astier-Pécher Literary & Film Agency In this novel of radiant lyricism, Nganang recounts the history of Cameroon’s Other Available Formats: forced entry into the Second World War, and in the process complicates our own Hardcover ISBN: 9780374288990 understanding of that globe-spanning conflict. After the fall of France in 1940, Ebook ISBN: 9780374719302 Cameroon found itself caught between Vichy and the Free French at a time when growing nationalism advised allegiance to neither regime, but it was ultimately dragged into fighting throughout North Africa on behalf of the Allies. MARKETING • National Print and Online Review Coverage • Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and In moving from the story of two dissimilar cousins—the poet Pouka, committed Social Media Campaign to starting a poetry circle in his village of Edéa, and the boxer Hebga—to • Targeted Outreach to Literary and accounts of the campaigns of the French general Leclerc and the battles of Kufra History Websites, Including Macmillan’s and Murzuk, Nganang questions the colonial record and recenters African History Reader • Online Reading Group Guide and perspectives at the heart of Cameroon’s national... Reading Group Gold Feature • Author Twitter: @nganang (5k followers) PRAISE • Author Website: nganang.com • Backlist Promotion Praise for Mount Pleasant • Academic Marketing Campaign
“Patrice Nganang’s dazzling novel [stands] in a league of its own, so different from the great majority of novels by African writers in the past fifty or sixty years.” ALSO AVAILABLE —Charles L. Larson, CounterPunch Mount Pleasant: A Novel 4/2017 | 9781250118417 Patrice Nganang was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, a poet, and an essayist. His novel Dog Trade Paperback | $18.00 / $25.00 Can. Days received the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand Prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. He is also the author of Mount Pleasant (FSG, 2016). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University.
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gods with a little g A Novel
Tupelo Hassman
From the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hope
Unsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by.
The tire yard, sex, and beer help pass the days until these misfits turn eighteen FICTION / LITERARY and leave their conservative, locked-down town. Helen's best friends, Win and Picador | 8/11/2020 Rainbolene, are particularly keen to depart—Rain because she’ll finally be able 9781250619624 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. to get the hormones she needs to fully become herself. Watching over them is Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Aunt Bev, an outcast like the kids, who runs the barely tolerated Psychic Encounter Shoppe and tries to keep Helen connected to her own psychic Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: The Clegg Agency talents—a gift passed down from her mother. Tensions are building, though, in 1st ser., audio: FSG every way. Threats against the Psychic Encounter Shoppe become serious Other Available Formats: actions. One of the kids gets in trouble, and then another. Helen can see some Hardcover ISBN: 9780374164461 things before they happen, but somehow can't see the most important things Ebook ISBN: 9780374719548 Audio ISBN: 9781250233035 happening right in front of her.
Tupelo Hassman's gods with a little g bursts and splinters with flawed, lovable
ALSO AVAILABLE characters whose haphazard investigations into each others's hearts will reshape your understanding of trust, how to build a family, and how to make a future you Girlchild: A Novel can see. 2/2013 | 9781250024060 Trade Paperback | $17.00 / $24.50 Can. PRAISE "[A] melancholy, triumphant, slightly magical coming-of-age tale . . . Weird and uncomfortable and glorious—just like adolescence." —Kirkus, starred review
“Hilarious and wise, smart and angry, tart and devastating, gods with a little g is a dark charm, full of dangerous magic. No other writer can limn the boundaries of female becoming like Hassman.” —Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock: A Diary
“I couldn’t put gods with a little g down. A brilliant coming-of-age story.” —Willy Vlautin, author of Lean on Pete
“A sacrament for girls growing up. A wild ride of a novel set in a California everyone should know.” —Susan Straight, author of Betwee...
Tupelo Hassman’s debut novel, Girlchild, was the recipient of the American Library Association’s 40 PICADOR MAY 2020
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4 3 2 1 A Novel
Paul Auster
A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four FICTION / LITERARY different and parallel lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and Picador | 5/5/2020 intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve 9781250618801 | $20.00 Trade Paperback | 992 pages | Carton Qty: 12 into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of 8.3 in H | 5.3 in W | 1.8 in T | 1.6 lb Wt history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on
Subrights: Brit., trans., dram.: The Carol Mann across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid-twentieth-century America. A Agency; 1st ser., audio: Henry Holt boy grows up—again and again and again.
Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250160010 As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever Audio ISBN: 9781427282781 written, 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this Hardcover ISBN: 9781627794466 masterful writer's extraordinary career. Ebook ISBN: 9781627794473 • New York Times Bestseller • National Bestseller MARKETING National Advertising National Public Radio Campaign PRAISE National Print and Online Review “An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . It’s impossible not to be Coverage National Bestseller: NY Times, LA Times, impressed – and even a little awed – by what Auster has accomplished. . . . A work ABA IndieBound, PW of outsize ambition and remarkable craft,a monumental assemblage of competing ABA IndieBound Indie Next List Select Author Events and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.”—Tom Perrotta, Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and The New York Times Book Review Social Media Campaign; Targeted Outreach to Literary Sites Reading Group Promotion: Online “Ambitious and sprawling . . . . Immersive . . . . Auster has a startling ability to Reading Group Guide and Reading Group report the world in novel ways.”—USA Today Gold Feature paul-auster.com Backlist Promotion “A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. Auster’s writing is joyful even in the book’s darkest moments, and never ponderous or showy. . . . An incredibly m...
ALSO AVAILABLE PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been award the Prince of Asturias Prize for Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 Literature, the Prix Médicis étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a 5/2019 | 9781250206299 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Trade Paperback | $20.00 / $26.00 Can. Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn. Invisible: A Novel 6/2010 | 9780312429829 41 PICADOR AUGUST 2020
Home A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
One of America's most acclaimed living authors, Marilynne Robinson, revisits the characters from her Pulitzer Prize– winning Gilead, in this "impossibly rich and beautiful new novel" (San Francisc...
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best of Fiction of the Year FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 8/4/2020 9781250784025 | $17.00 A San Francisco Chronicle Best book of the Year Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780312428549 Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying Ebook ISBN: 9781429929042 father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of Audio ISBN: 9781427205117 the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge, and trying to make peace with his turbulent past. When he was a child he gained a reputation as artful and devious; as a young man he brought continual shame to MARKETING the family; and now, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at · Coinciding with Publication of New Novel JACK (FSG 9/29/2020) odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father—though he remains · National Print and Online Review Boughton's most beloved child. Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and Coverage engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake, and the narrator of · Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Robinson's previous novel Gilead. Home is a moving and healing book about Social Media Campaign · Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and Podcasts and faith. · Online Reading Group Guide and Reading Group Gold Feature · Backlist Promotion
PRAISE "Remarkable… an even stronger accomplishment than Gilead." —Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books
"An anguished pastoral, a tableau of decency and compassion that is also an angry and devastating indictment of moral cowardice and unrepentant, unacknowledged sin…. Beautiful." —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review
"Rich and resonant…Gilead and Home fit with and around each other perfectly, each complete on its own, yet enriching and enlivening the other. But both are books of such beauty and power." —Emily Barton, Los Angeles Times
"Marilynne Robinson is so powerful a writer that she can reshape how we read." —Mark Athitakis, Ch... 42 PICADOR AUGUST 2020
Lila A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church—the only available shelter from the rain—and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a FICTION / LITERARY minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of Picador | 8/4/2020 the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. 9781250784032 | $17.00 Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize– winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving Subrights: Brit., trans., 1st ser., audio, dram.: expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American Ellen Levine, Trident Media Group classic. Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250074843 • Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Hardcover ISBN: 9780374187613 Ebook ISBN: 9780374709082 Award Audio ISBN: 9781427230119 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, NPR, USA Today, New York magazine, Time Out (New York), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Minneapolis Star MARKETING Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, The Guardian, The · Coinciding with Publication of New Novel Economist, The Globe & Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Buzzfeed, JACK (FSG 9/29/2020) Flavorwire, The Millions, Slate, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Bustle, and Bookpage, among · National Print and Online Review Coverage others · Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign PRAISE · Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites and Podcasts "Writing in lovely, angular prose that has the high loneliness of an old bluegrass · Online Reading Group Guide and tune...[Lila] is powerful and deeply affecting...Ms. Robinson renders [her] tale with Reading Group Gold Feature · Backlist Promotion the stark poetry of Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth."—The New York Times
"Lila is a book whose grandeur is found in its humility. That's what makes Gilead among the most memorable settings in American fiction."—The Wall Street ALSO AVAILABLE Journal Housekeeping: A Novel 11/2015 | 9781250060655 Hardcover Paper over boards | $16.00 "[Lila] is the highest fictional magic: a character who seems so real, it's hard to remember that she exists only in the page of this book."—Chicago Tribune Home: A Novel 9/2009 | 9780312428549 Trade Paperback | $17.00 / $0.00 Can. MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the novels Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Gilead: A Novel Prize), and Housekeeping, and four books of nonfiction, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother 1/2006 | 9780312424404 Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Trade Paperback | $17.00 / $0.00 Can. Workshop.
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Gilead A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
The runaway bestseller of 2004 and Finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award for Fiction
"At a moment in cultural history dominated by the shallow, the superficial, the quick fix, Maril...
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Dickinson and Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 8/4/2020 beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the 9781250784018 | $17.00 possibility of transcendent order." (Slate) In the luminous and unforgettable Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead, reveals the human 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780374602109 Audio ISBN: 9781593978228 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780312424404 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9780374706098 "Incandescent ...magnificent...(a) literary miracle." --Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly A "Rapturous...astonishing...Gilead is an inspired work from a writer whose MARKETING · Coinciding with Publication of New Novel sensibility seems steeped in holy fire." JACK (FSG 9/29/2020) --Lisa Shea, Elle · National Print and Online Review "Lyrical and meditative...potently contemplative." Coverage · Digital Marketing: Online Advertising and --Michele Orecklin, Time Social Media Campaign "Perfect." · Targeted Outreach to Literary Websites --Jeremy Jackson, People**** and Podcasts · Online Reading Group Guide and "Major." Reading Group Gold Feature --Philip Connors, Newsday · Backlist Promotion "You must read this book....Altogether unlike any other work of fiction, it has sprung forth more than 20 years after Housekeeping with what I can only call amazing grace." --Anne Hulbert, Slate "So serenely beautiful and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (FSG, 1981)--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
"So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." --Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, FICTION / LITERARY Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent Picador | 8/4/2020 9781250769763 | $17.00 grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 32 their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in Other Available Formats: a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a Hardcover ISBN: 9780374172084 town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and Audio ISBN: 9781250257277 chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred Hardcover ISBN: 9781250060655 elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780312424091 the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
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MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the novel Gilead and three books of nonfiction, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and When I Was a Child I Read Books. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Pandemic Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
Sonia Shah
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that hav...
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Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and elsewhere, and she has been featured on Radiolab, Fresh Air, and 46 Index
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