2019 Frankfurt Rights List For further information, please contact: Allison Devereux [email protected] The Cheney Agency 39 West 14th Street, Suite 403 New York, NY 10011 t: (212) 277-8007 www.cheneyagency.com Twitter: @CheneyAgency 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.