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Contents Non-Fiction She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen The Sex Recession by Kate Julian The New American Homeless by Brian Goldstone The Fugitive World by Ben Mauk Here Where We Stand Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar The Truth About Power by Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Fiction Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Selected Backlist
Non-Fiction She Said Breaking the Sexual Harrasment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Instant top 5 New York Times bestseller Authors the winners of the Pulitzer Prize An Amazon Best Book of September 100K copy initial print run Film rights optioned to Plan B A most anticipated book from NYT, Chicago Tribune, & others
From the reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey—and then the world changed. For months Kantor and Twohey had been learning of disturbing long-buried allegations, some of which had been covered up by onerous legal settlements. The journalists meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed Penguin Press (September 2019) some of the most famous women in the world—and some unknown Territory: North America ones—to risk going on the record, and faced down Weinstein, his team of Editor: Ann Godoff high-priced defenders, and even his private investigators. Material: Finished copies Agent: Elyse Cheney But nothing could have prepared them for what followed the publication of their Weinstein story. Within days, a veritable Pandora’s Box of sexual Rights sold: harassment and abuse was opened, and women who had suffered in UK: Bloomsbury silence for generations began coming forward, trusting that the world China: Guomai would understand their stories. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of Croatia: Profil men from every walk of life and industry would be outed for mistreating Brazil: Companhia das Letras their colleagues. But did too much change—or not enough? Those Germany: Tropen/Klett-Cotta questions plunged the two journalists into a new phase of reporting and Holland: Atlas Contact some of their most startling findings yet. Hungary: Atlantic Press With superlative detail, insight, and journalistic expertise, Kantor and Twohey take us for the first time into the very heart of this social shift, reliving in real-time what it took to get the story and giving an up-close portrait of the forces that hindered and spurred change. They describe the surprising journeys of those who spoke up—for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves—and so changed us all. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are investigative reporters at the New York Times. Kantor has focused on the workplace, and particularly treatment of women, in her reporting, and is the author of The Obamas. Twohey has focused much of her attention on the treatment of women and children, and in 2014 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Kantor and Twohey shared numerous honors for breaking the Harvey Weinstein story, including the George Polk Award, and, along with colleagues, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
PRAISE FOR SHE SAID
“An instant classic of investigative journalism.” —Washington Post
“More important than All the President’s Men...a binge-read of a book, propelled, for the most part, by a clear, adrenaline-spiking ticktock of how their stories came together, and studded with all manner of new astonishing details.” —The Los Angeles Times
“Seamless and suspenseful...a feminist All the President’s Men.” —Susan Faludi, The New York Times Book Review
“She Said is first and foremost an account of incredible reporting...it acts as an implicit counterargument to rising, ambient skepticism of the press...we know how the story ends, but She Said is nonetheless deeply suspenseful.” —NPR
“A gripping read…Very few journalists can claim to have changed the world...Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey did just that.” —Telegraph UK
“Required reading.” —The Observer UK
“She Said will one day be held up as an exemplar of how good journalism is conducted— and the strength people have when they come together and raise their voices in unison.” —Oprah Magazine Surviving Autocracy Masha Gessen
By the Winner of the 2017 National Book Award & Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A galvanizing analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, our most cherished cultural norms, and our very sense of identity
In the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, bestselling journalist Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump’s speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral, and Gessen’s coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for the hallmarks Riverhead (June 2020) of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its Territory: North America emergence for Americans. Editor: Rebecca Saletan Material: Edited manuscript Surviving Autocracy provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous October 2019 trajectory of the past few years. Gessen not only highlights the corrosion Agent: Elyse Cheney of the media, the judiciary, and other cherished institutions but also tells us the story of how a short few years have degraded our sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. This incisive book will be an indispensable Option publishers: lodestar in tumultuous times, and a beacon to recovery—or to enduring, UK: Granta and resisting, an ongoing assault. Estonia: Ajakirjad Finland: Docendo Germany: Suhrkamp Holland: De Bezige Bij Masha Gessen is the author of the National Book Award-winning The Hungary: Európa Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia as well as The Italy: Sellerio Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, The Brothers: Poland: Proszynski The Road to an American Tragedy, and several other books. Gessin is a Sweden: Brombergs staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, Spain: Turner including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship. Taiwan: Marco Polo Turkey: Epsilon Previous Titles
The Future Is History How Totalitarianism Recliamed Russia
Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism Prize Riverhead (2017) | Rights sold: UK, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey
The Brothers The Road to an American Tragedy Riverhead (2015) | Rights sold: UK, Italy
Words Will Break Cement The Passion of Pussy Riot Riverhead (2014) | Rights sold: UK, Brazil, France, Holland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden
The Man Without a Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Riverhead (2012) | Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey
Perfect Rigor A Genius of the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century Harcourt (2009) | Rights sold: UK, China, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan, Vietnam
Ester and Ruzya How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace Dial Press (2001) | Rights sold: UK, Hungary, Russia, Sweden The Sex Recession How Modern Life Is Complicating Intimacy Kate Julian
Sold in a major deal Based on The Atlantic’s most-read cover story of 2018
From Germany to Korea to Australia, young people are having less sex. What’s turning them off to physical intimacy? And what does it mean for society’s health and happiness?
Around the world, young people are beginning their sex lives later, and having sex less frequently, than previous generations. In the US, young adults are on pace to have fewer sex partners than their parents and grandparents. In the UK, frequency of sex among young people is on the decline. In the Netherlands, the median age at which people first have sex is rising. And in Japan, one recent study reported that Scribner (2022) almost half of single people ages 18 to 34 were virgins. Territory: North America Editor: Daniel Loedel Kate Julian investigated this phenomenon for The Atlantic, Material: Proposal identifying an array of social, cultural, and technological factors that Agent: Allison Devereux have combined to reduce young people’s sex drives. It became the magazine’s most read and talked about story of 2018, and “the sex recession” was launched into the vernacular.
A broad-reaching, global investigation, The Sex Recession will expand on Julian’s reporting, exploring issues such as distraction and inhibition, pornography and online dating, as well as bad sex and evolving consent culture, through different stages of early to mid- life. Weaving a broader history of the field of sex research, it will start a new conversation about our sexual well-being and capacity for intimacy, and how they factor into a society’s health and happiness in the 21st century.
Kate Julian is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the magazine’s Dispatches section. Prior to joining The Atlantic, Julian was the deputy editor of The Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section and the managing editor of The New Yorker. She has also worked at Slate and Lingua Franca. The New American Homeless Brian Goldstone
Sold at auction, in a major deal
A landmark work of journalism that exposes the dramatic rise of the “working homeless”
In August, Brian Goldstone published a shocking story in The New Republic about Cokethia Goodman and her Atlanta-based family’s struggles to secure housing, despite the fact that Cokethia worked a full-time job and always paid her bills on time. Through the Goodmans’ story, Goldstone exposed one of the major social issues of our time, a problem that’s hiding in plain sight for anyone living in a major city: that homelessness has grown into an epidemic.
One of the key insights Goldstone uncovered is that homelessness Crown (2022) today has taken a new form—people who live in cars, hotels, or on Territory: North America acquaintances’ couches, rather than on the street or in shelters. In Editor: Amanda Cook the United States and other major cities around the globe, this new Material: Proposal homelessness is due, in large part, to rising urban prosperity, which has Agent: Adam Eaglin effectively made it impossible for many working-class and financially insecure families to afford housing.
Goldstone’s story about the Goodmans quickly went viral, and he received hundreds of letters from readers around the world responding with heartbreak, anger, and a desire to better understand the problem of the “working homeless” and how it might be solved. The New American Homeless is a response to that call. By telling the broader story of the Goodmans, along with those of three other families in Atlanta, Goldstone will introduce readers to the real people whose paychecks are no longer enough to keep a roof over their heads, and who live the exhausting, everyday reality of struggling with the basic human necessity of shelter. In doing so, it will begin a new and urgent conversation about homelessness, gentrification, and economic inequality in the 21st century.
Brian Goldstone is the is the Director of the Media & Journalism Initiative at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. His long-form reporting and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Harper’s, The New Republic, California Sunday Magazine, and Guernica, among others. Goldstone received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University. The Fugitive World Travels Among the Ungoverned Ben Mauk
Sold in a pre-empt, in a mid-six-figure deal By the winner of the inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism
A riveting travel narrative into little-known, vanishing cultures that exist beyond the state
Over the last several years, journalist Ben Mauk has traveled and reported among communities on the social and political margins, remote and independent peoples who exist between and outside the traditional nation-state. These communities have been vanishing for centuries, but the greatest loss has happened in the past two hundred years. Now, in 2019, they are on the verge of extinction.
The Fugitive World will take the reader along with Ben on a months- long journey through central Asia, to meet pirates, farmers, and Farrar, Straus (2022) political revolutionaries. It is a necessary and dramatic story about Territory: World English communities fighting for survival against the increasingly sinister Editor: Alex Star forces of authoritarianism and globalism. What does it mean to be Material: Proposal “stateless” and “fugitive” by choice in an era of rising nationalism, Agent: Adam Eaglin when no one seems able to escape the ever-present reach of the state? What do we lose with the extinction of these communities? And how can we better our lives within the state by learning from the citizens of this fugitive world?
Ben Mauk has written frequently for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and n+1. His work is forthcoming in this year’s Best American Travel Writing and he was a finalist for the 2018 National Magazine Award for feature writing. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for fiction and a former Fulbright Scholar, in 2019 Ben received both the Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism and New York University’s Reporting Award. Here Where We Stand Is Our Country The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund Molly Crabapple
For fans of Nora Krug and Lauren Redniss, a radical illustrated history that will hold up another side of Jewish diasporic identity and philosophy, from an award-winning young author-illustrator
Here Where We Stand Is Our Country is an illustrated history of the Jewish Labor Bund, a revolutionary movement that played a part in nearly every major conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900-1945, and yet remain an occluded part of 20th-century history. The movement’s central philosophy of “hereness”—the belief that Jews had a right to freedom and dignity in the countries where they lived—led them to fight the Tsar, reject Zionism, resist the Nazis, and ultimately help lead the Warsaw ghetto revolt. Crabapple uses the lives of individual revolutionaries pivotal to carrying out this doctrine as a lens through which to reveal how the Bund helped change the course of history. One World (2021) Territory: North America Here Where We Stand Is Our Country brings a new side of Jewish Editor: Chris Jackson diasporic identity and philosophy to light and in doing so makes Material: Proposal a powerful case for the Bund’s present-day relevance. Part history, Agent: Alice Whitwham part intellectual inquiry, and part memoir, Crabapple uses her own experiences as a journalist in Syria, Europe, and New York to cast light on the ongoing, contemporary struggle for “hereness” in the face of rising ethno-nationalism.
Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York, has drawn in Guantanamo Bay, in Abu Dhabi’s migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syria, and received widespread praise for her illustrated memoir Drawing Blood. She is the illustrator of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, which was longlistd for the National Book Award. Crabapple is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Paved Paradise Henry Grabar
Sold at auction, in a mid-six-figure deal
An investigation of one of the most invisible but impactful forces in our urban and social life: the parking space
What makes a prototypical suburb, or a city’s downtown, look the way it does? Why are cities undergoing crises in housing affordability? What is driving up their rates of street crime and corruption? Why do hurricanes hit some cities so hard? And what are some of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions? The answers begin with the parking space.
With a light and playful tone reminiscent of Josh Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, Henry Grabar explains the profound impact of the Penguin Press (2021) parking space on the look, feel, and function—or dysfunction—of Territory: North America urban and social life. A curious, daring writer, his reporting and Editor: Will Heyward storytelling take him from Chicago to San Francisco, Paris to Material: Proposal Shanghai. He talks to civil engineers, politicians, technologists, Agent: Alice Whitwham criminals, and reformers, among them John Lindsay, New York’s radical mayor in 1970, who tried to ban all personal parking in Midtown; Anne Hidalgo, current mayor of Paris, where parking spaces have been eliminated by half since 2001; and Lyft’s co-founder John Zimmer, who is racing to put autonomous vehicles on the road.
In the bestselling tradition of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic, this book has a shot at becoming a classic of our moment. After all, everyone has to park.
Henry Grabar is a staff writer at Slate. He has contributed to The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the 2018 Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by journalists under thirty-five. His work focuses on architecture, real estate, transportation, and the environment. Currently, Henry lives in his native New York City, by way of Paris, Copenhagen, Algiers and Washington, D.C., with stints at the Danish Architecture Center, the Atlantic Media Company, and the Architectural League of New York along the way. The Truth About Power Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro
Sold at auction, in a significant deal
A book that will dramatically reframe readers’ understanding of what power is, how we relate to it, and how we can create it
Too often power is not only mishandled, it is misunderstood. The powerless believe the myths generated by the powerful: that their lack of power is due to their own deficiencies, that the powerful have achieved success because they work harder, or are smarter. The powerful also believe their own creation narratives, imagining that because they have power now, they will always have it, or because they have power, they are deserving of it.
Using original case studies and historical and current day examples, The Truth About Power will provide a definitive answer to an essential question: what is power? Whether we are talking about economics, gender, sexuality, or statehood, the laws of power are immutable, and this book will help anyone, especially those not born with wealth, privilege, or a strong personality, to understand them. With this book, readers will finally be able to understand that whoever they are, they have power.
Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro are two leading professors with international backgrounds. Battilana, a native of France, is Professor Simon & Schuster (2021) of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor Territory: North America of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work has been Editor: Stephanie Frerich featured in Business Week, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Material: Proposal Innovation Review, and she was previously a contributor to Le Monde. Agent: Elyse Cheney Casciaro, an Italian native, is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Rights Sold: Professor in Leadership Development at the University of Toronto. UK: Piatkus She regularly publishes in the Harvard Business Review, and her work China: Xiron has been featured in The Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, Holland: Ten Have New York Times, USA Today, Times of London, Fortune, and Time. Korea: ROK Media Between Two Fires Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia Joshua Yaffa
A groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule
In Between Two Fires, a rich and engaging tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures—from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians—who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks their own path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others, finding themselves less adept, are left broken or demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face.
With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles the director of Russia's main state television channel, an Orthodox priest at war with Tim Duggan Books (Jan. 2020) the church hierarchy, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind Territory: North America eye to persecutions, and many others. The result is an intimate Editor: Tim Duggan and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little Material: Galleys understood. In showing how citizens shape their lives around the Agent: Adam Eaglin demands of a capricious and oftentimes repressive state—as much by choice as under threat of force—Between Two Fires offers urgent Rights sold: lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism. UK: Granta Germany: Ullstein Holland: Het Spectrum “A book about Putin's Russia that is unlike any other.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, NYT bestselling author of Say Nothing
“Yaffa’s portrait of a people is a triumph...[He is] a beautiful writer, with the humane, tragicomic eye of a novelist and the tough-minded rigor of the best journalists.” —Evan Osnos, author of the National Book Award–winner Age of Ambition
Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. He has been a fellow at the New America foundation, a finalist for the Livingston Award, a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer Longlisted for the National Book Award & for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Instant New York Times Bestseller A Time magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2019
A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present
The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's internationally mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U.S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well.
Growing up on a Native American reservation, training as an Riverhead (January 2019) anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for Territory: North America his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different Editor: Rebecca Saletan narrative. Because they did not disappear—and not despite but Material: Finished copies rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, Agent: Adam Eaglin their traditions, their families, and their very existence—the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the Rights sold: present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. UK: Corsair France: Albin Michel In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes’ distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. This is an essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.
“Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another.” —NPR
“Sweeping, essential history.” —The Economist
David Treuer is the author of four previous novels, most recently Prudence, and three books of nonfiction. He has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Slate, and The Washington Post, among others. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books The Future and History of Reading Leah Price
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated
Do you worry that you’ve lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you’re not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day’s news, the willingness to be alone.
The shelves of the world’s great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions.
Basic Books (August 2019) The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In Territory: World English encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are Editor: Lara Heimert reinventing old ways of reading, Price’s “funny and enjoyable” (New Material: Finished copies York Times) book offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature Agent: Alice Whitwham lovers alike.
Rights sold: Ukraine: Yakaboo “No one writes about books—and their bookness—with anything close to the daunting curiosity and dazzling acuity of the inimitable Leah Price.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths
“[Price's] extrordinary grasp of every development in book history... suggests that a love of printed matter need not be a form of notsalgia.” —The New Yorker
Leah Price has taught English at Cambridge, Harvard, and Rutgers universities. She is the author How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012) and the editor of Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (2011). Self-Portrait in Black and White Unlearning Race Thomas Chatterton Williams A most-anticipated book of October from The New York Times, Chicago Review of Books, and TIME
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics
A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching and “exhilarating” (Publishers Weekly) story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. W. W. Norton (October 2019) Territory: North America “It is not that I have come to believe that I am no longer black or that Editor: John Glusman my daughter is white,” Williams writes. “It is that these categories Material: Finished copies cannot adequately capture either of us.” Beautifully written and Agent: Adam Eaglin bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time. Rights sold: UK: John Murray France: Grasset “A standout memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“Williams has the essential things a writer needs—command of language, complexity and depth of thought, and, maybe above all, courage.” —George Packer, author of The Unwinding
Thomas Chatterton Williams is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor to The American Scholar. He is also a National Fellow at New America. Williams’s first book, Losing My Cool, was published in 2010 by Penguin Press.
Fiction Destination Wedding A Novel Diksha Basu
From the international bestselling author of The Windfall
What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?
Tina Das wants to belong, but she just isn't sure where. India or America? Brooklyn or Bombay? Manhattan or Delhi? Or start from scratch in London—she still has fond memories of her one-night stand with Rocco Gallagher, the handsome Australian, as they traipsed through Covent Garden and Seven Dials, but he never called back so maybe it's time to let that dream go, and focus on finding the next big story for her streaming network instead.
She’s hoping she’ll find it at her cousin’s lavish, weeklong Delhi wedding, and has taken her best friend Marianne Laing along for the ride to Delhi's poshest country club, Colebrookes. Marianne has always had international tastes, in life and in love, yet can't help but Ballantine (June 2020) think of sweet, steady, khaki-clad Tom back home in New York. Territory: North America Editor: Hilary Teeman Also in attendance are Tina’s divorced parents: her mother, Radha, Material: Edited manuscript who’s bringing her American “boyfriend,” David, to the wedding, and Agent: Adam Eaglin her father, Neel, who’s using the visit to India to explore the idea of dating again, only to discover it and he have both changed completely Rights sold: in the decades he’s been away.
UK: Bloomsbury Infused with warmth, charm, and wicked humor, Destination Wedding grapples with the challenges of work, love, and finding the people who Option publishers: make a place feel like home. France: Le Mercure de France Spain: Alianza de Novelas
Praise for Diksha Basu's The Windfall
“A delightful comedy of errors.” —NPR
“Ultra-charming.” —Vogue
Diksha Basu is the author of The Windfall. Originally from New Delhi, India, she holds a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai. Crooked Hallelujah A Novel Kelli Jo Ford
Winner of the 2019 Paris Review Plimpton Prize
The remarkable debut from Kelli Jo Ford, following four generations of Cherokee women across four decades of life
Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her mother and grandmother back in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and Grove Atlantic (June 2020) tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another Territory: North America and their very ideas of home. Editor: Elisabeth Schmidt Material: Galley PDF In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what four Agent: Adam Eaglin generations of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifice for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent.
“Kelli Jo Ford’s writing is a high priority and will only gain in the world’s esteem ... [her work] contains beauty and unexpected new intelligence.” —Richard Ford
“A modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully-realized charac- ters. A huge achievement.” —David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
“Ford's writing is heartfelt and brimming with talent. This is a stunning, awe-inspiring debut.” —Leila Aboulela, author of The Translator
Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award at Bread Loaf, and a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, among other awards. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Age of Consent A Novel Amanda Brainerd A daring, honest, and sexy debut novel about three young women coming of age in 1980s New England and New York—a bingeable summer read
It’s 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine’s bohemian life in New Haven, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of a status-obsessed Park Avenue family, also feels like an outsider amidst Griswold’s preppy jocks and debutantes. Justine longs for Eve's privilege, and Eve for Justine's sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory male teachers.
Viking (August 2020) After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in Territory: North America New York City where they join Eve’s childhood friend India. Justine Editor: Allison Lorentzen moves into India’s Hell’s Kitchen apartment and is pulled further Material: Edited manuscript into her friends’ affluent lives. Eve, under her parents’ ever-watchful Agent: Alice Whitwham eye, interns at a SoHo art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. And India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women assert their independence.
A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, love, and parental damage, Amanda Brainerd’s Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years.
Amanda Brainerd lives on the Upper East Side, blocks from where she grew up, and attended Nightingale Bamford High School before going on to graduate from Harvard College and Columbia Architecture. This is her first novel. Only to Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel Lawrence Osborne A finalist for the Edgar and Shamus awards A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A NPR Best Book of 2018
Commissioned by the estate of Raymond Chandler, Only To Sleep brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe— now in his seventy-second year—is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it.
For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn—supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. Hogarth (July 2018) But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Territory: World English Editor: Parisa Ebrahimi Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Material: Paperbacks Lawrence Osborne’s resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an Agent: Adam Eaglin unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon. Rights sold: UK: Hogarth Japan: Hayakawa “Osborne, an accomplished writer of fiction and nonfiction, has been Spain (Spanish & Catalan): Navona asked to imagine a new case for Philip Marlowe and...it crackles.” —New York Times Book Review
“It’s the kind of book where, when you read it, it turns the world to black and white for a half-hour afterward. It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar.” —NPR
Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, Hunters in the Dark, and Beautiful Animals. His non- fiction includes Bangkok Days and the drinking odyssey The Wet and the Dry. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, The New Yorker, Forbes, Harper’s, and others. Number One Chinese Restaurant A Novel Lillian Li Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize Optioned for TV by ABC Named a Summer Must-Read by Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Oprah Magazine, and more
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.
Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck Henry Holt (June 2018) House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year friendship into Territory: North America something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. Editor: Barbara Jones And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, Material: Paperbacks find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in tragedy, Agent: Adam Eaglin their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children. Rights sold: UK: One Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant shares an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.
“By turns darkly funny and heartbreaking.” —The Wall Street Journal
“[A] crackling debut. . . . Li's talent for human tragicomedy grows more evident by the page.” —Entertainment Weekly
Lillian Li received her MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of a Hopwood Award in Short Fiction, as well as Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award. Her work has been featured in Guernica, Granta, and Jezebel. In 2013, she was a Granta New Voice. Selected Backlist The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. A Novel Adelle Waldman The nationally bestselling debut, named a best book of 2013 by the New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, and more
Rights sold: UK (Heinemann), Brazil (Casa da Palavra), Czech Republic (XYZ), Denmark (C&K), France (Christian Bourgois; Points), Germany (Liebeskind; Piper), Holland (Nieuw Amsterdam), Italy (Einaudi), Latin America (Planeta), Portugal (Teorema), Russia Holt (2013) (Eksmo), Taiwan (Unitas), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling Foer’s unlikely journey from forgetful journalist to Memory Champion.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Penguin Press (2011)
Peak Secrets from the New Science of Expertise Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool A “breakthrough” (Seth Godin) and an “empowering, encouraging” (Publisher’s Weekly) account of how to master almost any skill from the world’s reigning expert on expertise.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Harcourt (2016) Endurance A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly The national bestseller, a “captivating, charming” (New York Times Book Review) memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Knopf (2017)
New Power How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize and Succeed in our Chaotic, Connected Age Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms In this bestselling,“clever, witty and creative” (The Guardian) guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing.
Rights sold: UK (Macmillan), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (CITIC), Croatia (V.B.Z.), Czech Republic (Albatros Media), France (Plon), Germany (Siedler), Holland (Business Contact), Italy (Stile Libro), Japan (Diamond), Korea (Business Books Co.), Lithuania (Eugrimas), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan Doubleday (2018) (CommonWealth Magazine), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)
Imagine It Forward Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change Beth Comstock From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, a personal and practical guide to masterning change in the face of relentness uncertainty.
“Comstock has written a wonderful book.” —Phil Knight, founder of Nike and New York Times bestselling author, Shoe Dog
Rights sold: UK (Ebury), China (Booky), Korea (Mirae), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan (Commonwealth), Ukraine (Yakaboo), Vietnam (TRE) Currency (2018) To Obama With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope Jeanne Marie Laskas President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. Based on a New York Times Magazine piece that Obama called “my single favorite story about my presidency,” this is the “empathetic, often poetic” (Vogue) story of the profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency—and the diary of a nation.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Brazil (Intrinseca), China Random House (2018) (Beijing Xiron), France (Fayard), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (HarperCollins Holland), Taiwan (Yeren)
Patriot Number One A Chinese Rebel Comes to America Lauren Hilgers Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, the New York Times critics, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Longreads
Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award, Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and a 2018 Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee, this is the deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, Crown (2017) forging a life between two worlds.
Playing Changes Jazz for the New Century Nate Chinen One of jazz's leading critics gives us an “essential [and] fascinating” (Slate) portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time.
“Brilliant. Incisive. Jazz lives on and on and on, folks.” —Sonny Rollins
Pantheon (2018) Rights sold: Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain (Alpha DeCay) The Internationalists How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro A “fascinating” (Financial Times) and “original” (The New Yorker) history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty treaty transformed the modern world.
Rights sold: UK (Allen Lane), China (Social Sciences Academic Press), Germany (Siedler), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Bungeishunju), Spain (Tres Puntos) Simon & Schuster (2017)
Among the Living and the Dead A Tale of Exile and Homecoming Inara Verzemnieks A “thorough and eloquent...intimate and poetic” (New York Times Book Review) memoir about growing up amongst Latvian expatriates, this “important...[and] exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past” (Washington Post).
Rights sold: UK (One), France (Hoebeke) W.W. Norton (2017)
The Filter Bubble How the Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think Eli Pariser An eye-opening account and “powerful indictment” (Wall Street Journal) of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling and limiting the information we consume.
Rights sold: UK (Viking), Brazil (Zahar), China (Remnin Univarsity Press), Germany (Hanser), Indonesia (MAXincube), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Sigongsa), Russia (Mann- Penguin Press (2011) Ivanov-Ferber), Spain (Taurus), Taiwan (Rive Gauche) The Big Game The NFL in Dangerous Times Mark Leibovich The national bestseller, serving as an “enlightening and entertaining” (Boston Globe) probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.
“[A] wickedly entertaining journey through the N.F.L...A sparkling narrative.” —The New York Times
Penguin Press (2018) Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins)
Into the Hands of Soldiers Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East David Kirkpatrick From the international correspondant of the New York Times, an “engrossing” (New York Times Book Review) narrative “that fills us with terror and pity” (The Wall Street Journal) of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, and then failed, and the truth about the West's role in that failure.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury) Viking(2018)
The Windfall A Novel Diksha Basu Lauded as one of the best books of 2017 by People, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. In this “delightful” (NPR) and “fun and heartfelt” (Rolling Stone) comedy of manners, Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to “make it” in modern India.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), France (Le Mercure de France), Spain (Alianza de Novelas) Crown (2017) Among the Ten Thousand Things A Novel Julia Pierpont A national bestselling debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and time lost. Hailed as “luscious and smart” (New York Times), “astonishing” (Financial Times) and “a twisty, gripping story that packs an emotional wallop.” (O Magazine)
Rights sold: UK (Oneworld), France (Stock), Italy (Mondadori) Random House (2015)
Better Living Through Criticism How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth A. O. Scott From the chief film critic at the New York Times, an “intelligent, informed and oftenty funny account” (New York Times) of the role of the critic—and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday life.
Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Korea (Miraebook), Turkey (Ayrinti) Penguin Press (2016)
Serena A Novel Ron Rash A story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s emerging environmental movement. Hailed as a Best Book of the Year by many publications and as a “masterfully written” (SF Chronicle) novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker).
Rights sold: UK, ANZ, Brazil, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey Ecco (2008) The Captain Class A New Theory of Leadership Sam Walker From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary success.
Rights sold: UK (Ebury), ANZ (Penguin Australia), Czech Republic (Mlada Fronta), Hungary (Prtvonal Konykiado), Japan (Hayawaka), Random House (2017) Korea (THE BOM), Spain (Debate), Taiwan (Souler)
The New Analog Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World Damon Krukowski What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indy musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this “passionate” (Los Angeles Times) and “accessible” (Pitchfork) guide to the transition from analog to digital culture.
The New Press (2017) Rights sold: UK (MIT Press), Italy (Edizioni Sur), Spain (Alpha DeCay)
Green A Novel Sam Graham-Felsen Written by a former Obama campaign staffer, a “compelling”(The New York Times Book Review) and “uassumingly ambitious” (Slate) coming- of-age story of “uncommon sweetness and feeling” (The New Yorker) about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America.
Rights sold: Turkey (Hep Kitap)
Random House (2018) The World As It Is A Memoir of the Obama White House Ben Rhodes A New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, from Barack Obama's closest aide comes a “charming and...humane” (New York Times Book Review) behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.
Rights sold: UK (Bodley Head), Arabic (Haykal), China (Modern Press), France (Editions Saint-Simon), Finland (Minerva), Germany (C.H. Beck), Holland (De Bezige Bij), Spain (Debate) Random House (2018)
The Italian Teacher A Novel Tom Rachman Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and named a best book of 2018 by USA Today, a “deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate” (Washington Post) novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.
Rights sold: UK (riverrun), ANZ (Text), Canada (Doubelday Canada), Denmark (Politikens), Germany (dtv), Italy (La Nave de Teseo), Poland (Znak) Viking (2018)
Losing Earth A Recent History Nathaniel Rich The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told. “Reading like a Greek myth” (NPR), the first book of non-fiction by acclaimed novelist Nathaniel Rich reveals the startling truth of how global warming could have been stopped three decades ago, assessing what we can do now before it's truly too late.
Rights sold: UK (Picador), France (Editions du Sous-Sol), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Arbeiderspers), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Foksal) MCD (2019) Rights inquiries: [email protected] Zealot The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Aslan A momentous work of popular scholarship and runaway bestseller, this provocative biography challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.
Rights sold in: Rights sold: UK, Arab Territories, ANZ/New Zealand, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Random House (2016) Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey
Atlas Obscura An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, & Ella Morton With over 650,000 copies in print, Atlast Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most “awe-inspiring” (Entertainment Weekly) places in the world. Rights sold: Brazil (Darkside Entretenimento), Bulgaria (East-West Publishing), China (Gingko (Beijing) Book Co.), France (Marabout), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (Terra Lannoo), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Sam & Parker’s Co.), Poland (Sonia Draga), Romania (Editura Workman (2015) Trei, Spain (Temas de Hoy) Rights inquiries: [email protected]
Grace A Memoir Grace Coddington A Financial Times Best Book of the Year about American Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington’s early career as a model to her rise as a prominent, endearing icon in fashion today.
Rights sold: UK (Chatto & Windus), Brazil (Record), China (Hunan Literature & Art), Finland (Nemo), Holland (Atlas-Contact), Japan (Space Showers Network), Korea (Bookie), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Turner Libros), Taiwan (Azoth), Turkey (Sho-pigo) Random House (2012) Rights inquiries: [email protected] Excellent Sheep The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life William Deresiewicz A sharp-eyed, bestselling manifesto on what elite education should be—but isn’t—providing, and a clarion call to our brightest young minds. “Anyone who cares about American education should ponder this book,” writes the New York Times Book Review.
Rights sold: China (Sunnbook), Japan (Sanseido), Korea (Darun), Taiwan (Sun Color) Harcourt (2009) Rights inquiries: [email protected]
A Jane Austen Education How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter William Deresiewicz
A vindication of the women’s novel, an eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature, and a novel-by-novel account of the life lessons that Austen has to teach us all.
Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), China (SDX Joint Publishing), Italy (TEA), Korea (Jaeseung Book Gold Co.), Russia (Gayatri), Taiwan (Linking) Penguin Press (2011)
When in French Love in a Second Language Lauren Collins “A thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the art of language and intimacy.” (New York Times) A “terrific” (Vogue) memoir from the New Yorker staff writer about learning to live (and love) in French, and to discover, across history and culture, whether the languages we speak make us who we are. A New York Times bestseller and Amazon Best Book of the Month.
Rights sold: UK (4th Estate), France (Flammarion), Korea (KL) Penguin Press (2016) Ashley’s War The Untold Story Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A New York Times bestseller about the first female special forces unit in Afghanistan, and the inspiring, tragic story of its first member killed-in-action. In development as a feature with Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard (Gone Girl, Wild).
Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), Italy (Piemme), Japan (Kadokawa), Poland (Proszynski) Harper (2015)
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, China (Uyghur), Germany, India (Marathi), Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Harper (2011) Turkey
Make Your Home Among Strangers A Novel Jennine Capo Crucet A “smart, scathing and hilarious” debut (Curtis Sittenfeld) about a daughter of immigrants to Miami caught between the worlds of an elite university and her mother’s defense of a young Cuban refugee, named an NYTBR Editor’s Choice and Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award.
St. Martin’s (2015) No Easy Day The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand Dutton (2012)
No Hero The Evolution of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic, No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.
Rights sold: Brazil (Paralela), China (CITIC), France (Editions du Seuil), Germany (Heyne), Holland (De Boekerij), Israel (Keter), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Kodansha), Poland (Literackie), Sweden (Nona), Turkey (Pegasus) Dutton (2012)
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The bestselling biography of the most influential American writer of his generation, named a Best Book of 2012 by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist and more.
Rights sold: UK (Portobello), China (Horizon Media), France (Editions de l’Olivier), Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Italy (Stile Libero), Romania (Vellant), Spain (Debate) Viking (2012) Indecision A Novel Benjamin Kunkel Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis in this generation-defining novel, hailed by Jay McInerney (New York Times) as “the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years.”
Rights sold: UK (Picador), Brazil (Rocco), Catalan (Ediciones Proa), Croatia (Algoritam), Holland (Lebowski), France (Belfond), Germany (Berlin Verlag), Greece (Ellinika Grammata), Israel (Kinneret), Random House (2005) Italy (Rizzoli), Norway (Bazar), Poland (Muza), Russia (AST), Spain (Destino)
Diane Arbus Portrait of a Photographer Arthur Lubow The “defining biography” (Publishers Weekly) of one of the most influential and beguiling photographers of the twentieth century. “Enormously satisfying” (Boston Globe) and “superbly crafted” (Washington Post).
Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), China (China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House) Random House (2015)
Prudence A Novel David Treuer A “masterful” (Los Angeles Times) novel about love, loss, race and desire in World War II-era America, charting the reverberations of a shocking act of violence at a rustic Minnesota resort. Hailed by Toni Morrison as “wondrous and mesmerizing,” and “tender and devastating” by Anthony Marra in the Washington Post.
Rights sold: France (Albin Michel) Riverhead (2015) Doing Justice A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law Preet Bharara A New York Times bestseller in the spirit of The Secret Barrister and Michael Sandel’s bestselling Justice, Doing Justice makes a vital and “page- turning” (Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)) case for why the rule of law is essential, and shows the thought process we need to best achieve truth, fairness, and justice in our daily lives and within our society.
Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), China (Booky), India (Bloomsbury India) Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Next Wave), Taiwan (Yuan-Liou) Knopf (2019)
My Time Among the Whites Notes from an Unfinished Education Jennine Capó Crucet
In this “entertaining and accessible” (Library Journal (Starred Review)) collection of essays, critically acclaimed author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and first-generation American Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding hesrself a stranger in the country where she was born.
Picador (2019)
Belonging A German Reckons with Home and History Nora Krug Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Der Spiegel Bestseller, this “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times) by Victoria & Albert Museum's 2019 Illustrator of the Year Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany.
Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Ukraine Scribner (2018) God A Human History Reza Aslan A national bestselller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, exploring humanity's quest to make sense of the divine.
Rights sold: UK, Azerbaikan, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey
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No god but God The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam Reza Aslan A “literate, accessible introduction to Islam” (New York Times), from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot.
Rights sold: UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, France, China, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain, Arab Territories, Lithuania
Random House (2005/11) Rights inquiries: [email protected] & [email protected]
Beyond Fundamentalism Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization Reza Aslan “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (Washington Post) and an analysis of the war on terror in a post-9/11 world.
Rights sold: UK (Heinemann), Japan (Fujiwara Shoten), Spain (Ediciones Urano) Random House (2009) Rights inquiries: [email protected] & [email protected]