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2019 Frankfurt Rights List
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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 B
est
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 MediaBetween 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: flora.esterly@fsgbooks.comZealot
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: kristina@workman.com
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: itarasconi@unitedagents.co.ukExcellent 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: marie.florio@simonandschuster.com
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.
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