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EAT PRAY LOVE MADE ME DO IT: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling MemoirBy Various; Introduction by Elizabeth GilbertNonfiction | Riverhead | March 29, 2016 | World RightsAgent: The Wylie AgencyManuscript available
True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, bestselling books of our time; a companion to the 10th anniversary edition of Eat Pray Love.
Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic, Eat Pray Love and several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction. Gilbert began her career writing for Harper’s Bazaar, Spin, The New York Times Magazine and GQ, and has been a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The follow-up memoir Committed became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New York Times, O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker.
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EARLY PRAISE“A new treat for Gilbert’s many fans.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Fascinating…clearly reveals the myriad ways in which [Gilbert’s] groundbreaking memoir has affected its readers…No doubt, like Eat Pray Love itself, this follow-up will inspire.”
April 2- Jen Flick – Barnes & Noble # 2059 – Newport, KYApril 12 – Laurie Granieri – Highland Park Library – Highland Park, NJApril 13 – Shannon Sykes Westgate – Schuler Books & Music – Okemos, MIApril 28 – Jan Haag – Time Tested Books – Sacramento, CAMay 4 – Karstee Davis – Tattered Cover LoDo – Denver, COMay 7 – Tracie Cornell – Barnes & Noble #2301 – Buffalo, NYMay 11 – Amy Scher, Lisa Becker, Eduardo Martinez – Vroman’s – Pasadena, CA
IT DIDN’T START WITH YOU: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the CycleBy Mark WolynnNonfiction | Viking | April 26, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Bonnie Solow/ Solow Literary EnterprisesManuscript available
An examination of how trauma is passed through the generations, and is encoded in gene expression and everyday language – which also forms the key to our breaking these patterns.
Mark Wolynn is director of The Family Constellation Institute, The Hellinger Institute of Northern California, and co-director of the Hellinger Learning Center in New York City. He is North America’s leader in Inherited Family Trauma and conducts workshops and trainings in family therapy throughout the US, Canada, England and Latin America.
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EARLY PRAISE“Mark Wolynn does a masterful job of illuminating the ways in which our ancestors’ unresolved suffering, often unknown to us, disables us and binds us painfully to them. He gives us the tools and skills—an approach that combines understanding, imaginative dialogues, and compassionate reconnection—to free and heal ourselves.” —James S. Gordon, MD, author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
“It Didn’t Start with You takes us a big step forward, advancing the fields of trauma therapy, mindfulness applications, and human understanding. It is a bold, creative, and compassionate work.”
—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness “This groundbreaking book offers a compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering. Mark Wolynn is a wise and trustworthy guide on the journey toward healing.”—Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“Mark Wolynn’s extraordinary book cracks the secret code of families and proves that you can go home again—once you understand how history made you. Full of life-changing stories, powerful insights, and practical tools for personal healing, It Didn't Start With You deserves a place on your bookshelf next to Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child and Dan Siegel’s The Developing Mind. You’ll never see your family the same way again.”—Mark Matousek, author of Ethical Wisdom
“Bridging both neuroscience and psychodynamic thinking, It Didn’t Start with Youprovides the reader with Mark Wolynn’s hard-earned toolbox of do-it-yourself clinical aids and provocative insights.”—Jess P. Shatkin, MD, MPH, Vice Chair for Education at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Child Study Center and author of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
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NAVIGATING LIFE:Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
By Margaux Bergen Nonfiction | Penguin Press | August 2, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Stephanie Cabot/ The Gernert CompanyManuscript available
A wise, inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting
tough lessons—for students of life of all ages—about family, work, and marriage.
Margaux Bergen was born in Paris, grew up in London and comes from a family of journalists. Educated at Edinburgh University, she now lives in Washington D.C. where she has raised her three children. She has worked all over the world for large and small development organizations as a media and communications expert, including The World Bank, The United Way and Vital Voices, and is currently at ORBMedia.
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FALL 2016HOW TO MAKE A SPACESHIP: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Space FlightBy Julian Guthrie; Foreword by Elon Musk Nonfiction | Penguin Press | September 20, 2016 | World RightsAgent: The Gersh AgencyManuscript available
A spellbinding narrative in the vein of Rocket Boys and The New New Thing about how a historic race to the stratosphere – spurred by Peter
Diamandis’ $10 million prize for the first privately funded team to build and fly a rocket to space twice within two weeks – gave birth to private space flight.
Julian Guthrie is a veteran journalist and has won numerous awards, including the Best of the West Award and Society of Professional Journalists' Public Service Award. She spent 20 years at the San Francisco Chronicle and has also been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and others. She is the author of several books
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including the bestselling The Billionaire and The Mechanic, selected by Forbes Magazine as a top-ten nonfiction book of 2014.
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HOW WE GOT TO NOW BOOK TWO:The World We Made by Having FunBy Steven Johnson Nonfiction | Riverhead | December 6, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Lydia Wills, LLC Manuscript due April 2016
In this lushly illustrated follow-up to How We Got to Now, the New York Times bestselling author explores the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained, making the compelling argument that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues for the future in novel amusements.
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of ten books, including How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad is Good for You. The founder of a variety of influential websites, he is the host and co-creator of the PBS and BBC series How We Got to Now.
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FOLLOW ME: A NovelBy Elizabeth LittleFiction | Viking | January 17, 2017 | World RightsAgent: DeFiore and CompanyManuscript due April 2016
A phenomenal new mystery, from the author of Dear Daughter, featuring lawyer Noah Washington as he is called home to Mississippi to rescue his brother from a notorious cult.
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A graduate of Harvard University, Elizabeth Little is the author of the award-winning novel Dear Daughter, as well as the nonfiction books Biting the Wax Tadpole and Trip of the Tongue. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.
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THE RED BANDANNA:Welles Crowther, 9/11, and the Path to PurposeBy Tom Rinaldi Biography | Penguin Press | September 6, 2016 | World RightsAgent: David Black Literary Agency Manuscript available
The inspirational story of Welles Crowther, whose decision, determination and sacrifice in the terror of 9/11 have inspired millions, and whose short life offers a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage—in how we live, and in the legacy we choose to leave behind.
Tom Rinaldi has been a correspondent at ESPN for more than a decade. His work has won ten national Sports Emmy Awards, and his writing and feature reporting has been nominated for an Emmy more than 40 times. Born in Brooklyn, he is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia Journalism School.
I LOVED HER IN THE MOVIESBy Robert Wagner with Scott Eyman Nonfiction | Viking | December 6, 2016 | World Rights
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Agent: Janklow & Nesbit AssociatesManuscript due April 2016
Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known, including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Glenn Close, and the two actresses whom he ultimately married, Natalie Wood and Jill St. John. I LOVED HER IN THE MOVIES is an intimate and revealing account of the charisma of these women on film, why they became stars, and how their specific emotional and dramatic chemistries affected the choices they made as actresses as well as the choices they made as women.
Robert Wagner is the star of such films as A Kiss Before Dying, The Longest Day, The Pink Panther, and most recently, the Austin Powers franchise. On television, he starred in It Takes a Thief (with Fred Astaire), Switch (with Eddie Albert and Sharon Gless), and Hart to Hart (with Stefanie Powers). He has recently appeared on Two and a Half Men and NCIS.
Scott Eyman is the author of eleven books about the movies, including Lion of Hollywood: The Life of Louis B. Mayer (which the Wall Street Journal called one of the five best books ever written about Hollywood), Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille, and more recently, John Wayne: The Life and Legend.
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THE BOOK OF POLLY: A Novel By Kathy HepinstallFiction | Pamela Dorman Books | March 2017 | World RightsAgent: Henry Dunow/ Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary AgencyManuscript due end May 2016
In the tradition of Fannie Flagg, with a touch of Terms of Endearment thrown in, a funny, sweetly touching novel about a 10-year-old girl obsessed with the fear that her larger-than-life, cantankerous, margarita-drinking, squirrel-shooting mother will die, and who is determined not only to keep her among the living but to find out the secrets of her long-buried past—a journey that will literally end up with them, like Huck Finn, riding a river raft back home.
Kathy Hepinstall is the author of five previous historical novels, so THE BOOK OF POLLY represents an exciting new direction for her.
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THE NIGHT OCEAN: A Novel By Paul La FargeFiction | Penguin Press | February 2017 | World RightsAgent: Gloria Loomis / Watkins LoomisManuscript due April 2016
A new novel from the New Yorker ("Rosendale") and Believer contributor and Guggenheim fellow about a mysterious incident in the life of legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the shadow it casts on the lives of the men and women who investigate it over the course of eighty years, from Lovecraft's day to the present.
Paul La Farge is the author of three novels: The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, and Luminous Airplanes; and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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THINKING OUTSIDE OURSELVES:How Intelligence Emerges From Ignorance By Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 2017 | World RightsAgent: Christy Fletcher/ Fletcher & Co. Manuscript due June 2016
A look at how much of what we think we know actually resides outside our minds (in our environment, our machines and systems, and the collective minds of others), with important implications for the way we learn, make decisions, work as teams, and interact with technology.
Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He did his Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford and his post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan. He is an experimentally—and computationally—oriented cognitive scientist whose work concerns higher-order aspects of cognition. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition.
Phil Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He got his Ph.D. at Brown University and his undergraduate degree from Williams College, where he studied philosophy. Phil’s research focus is on understanding how cognitive science can shed light on issues of critical importance to society, such as political polarization, acceptance of cutting edge technologies like genetic engineering, and consumer financial decision making. He has written for and had his work profiled in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC World News.
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HIT-MAKERS: How to Succeed in the Age of AttentionBy Derek ThompsonNonfiction | Penguin Press | February 2017 | World RightsAgent: Gail Ross/ Ross Yoon AgencyManuscript due May 2016
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The Atlantic senior editor’s investigation of why some songs, movies, books, games, and TV shows explode and so many others fizzle; showing how success can happen for all of us in our new, wired world, whose currency is attention, and what it says about us—putting pop culture under the lens of science with his trademark brilliance and wit.
Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, labor markets, and the entertainment business. He frequently appears on radio and television, including NPR and CNBC and is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches a class on writing for the Internet. In 2012, he appeared in FOLIO: magazine’s 15 Under 30, was one of Min’s People to Watch, and his blog was named one to follow by Reuters’ Counterparties blog, newsletter and website.
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THE FEMALE PERSUASION: A NovelBy Meg WolitzerFiction | Riverhead | Spring 2017 | World RightsAgent: Suzanne Gluck/ William Morris Endeavor EntertainmentManuscript due Fall 2016
A layered novel of both ideas and relationships set in the corporate world – a fictionalized Lean In by the bestselling author of The Interestings.
Meg Wolitzer’s previous novels include The Wife, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling and most recently, The Interestings.
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HOW TO BE CAREFULBy Steve CasnerNonfiction | Riverhead | June 2017 | World RightsAgent: Sandra Dijkstra/ Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Manuscript due June 2016
A user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds that helps us understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.
As a NASA research psychologist, Steve Casner has spent the past twenty years helping to lower the airline accident rate. He holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. that spans psychology, computer science, medicine, and the history and philosophy of science. Casner is well published in scientific literature and has received major media attention for his research.
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VICTORIA HAS A SECRET: A Novel
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By Shalom AuslanderFiction | Riverhead | July 2017 | World RightsManuscript date TK
Subject to come, but it will be philosophical, funny, and trenchant.
Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, Shalom Auslander has published articles in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet, The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR'sThis American Life. Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God, the memoir Foreskin's Lament, and most recently Hope: A Tragedy.
MONSTER IN THE MIDDLE: A NovelBy Tiphanie YaniqueFiction | Riverhead | June 2017 | World RightsAgent: Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Manuscript date TK
A tightly narrated novel that tracks the individual histories of one contemporary black couple to look at how they came together. Following the separate but overlapping social and romantic experiences of both the man and the woman, Yanique looks at how her characters bring their pasts (and their families’ pasts) into their present relationship, and what it means for their future. The book is set primarily in New York, but also takes the reader to the Caribbean, the American South, Ghana, and South Africa.
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of Land of Love and Drowning, which won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Book of 2014. Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and is currently a finalist for both the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Phyllis Wheatley Award. She is also the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35. Her writing has won the 2011 Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet’s Prize.
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BLACK MONEY By David Montero Nonfiction | Viking | July 2017 | World RightsAgent: Larry Weissman/ Larry Weissman LiteraryManuscript due September 2016
Investigative journalist and Emmy-nominated Frontline contributor David Montero’s global investigation into international corporate bribery, arguing that this near-trillion-dollar shadow economy is a major factor in poverty, violence, environmental disaster and political instability in the developing world.
David Montero is a documentary producer and journalist whose work appears regularly on the PBS series FRONTLINE. Between 2004 and 2011, Montero was a foreign correspondent in South Asia for The Christian Science Monitor and PBS FRONTLINE/World.
EASTMAN WAS HERE By Alex GilvarryFiction | Viking | August 2017 | World RightsAgent: Seth Fishman/ The Gernert Company Manuscript due August 2016
The 2014 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 selection’s second novel about a washed-up war journalist, public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, husband, and philanderer; in this roman a clef, he sets out on a reluctant journey that Norman Mailer never had the chance to complete.
Alex Gilvarry is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, which won the Hornblower Award at the 2012 New York City Book Awards. In 2014, he was
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selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 honorees, and was also previously a Norman Mailer Fellow and a visiting scholar at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Gilvarry currently teaches fiction at Wesleyan University and is the Artist-in-Residence at Monmouth University.
AVAILABLE LIGHT: A Memoir By Lisa Brennan-Jobs Nonfiction | Penguin Press | September 2017 | World RightsAgent: McCormick & Williams LLC Manuscript date TK
The remarkable, untold story of Steve Jobs' first child, who was raised in her early years by her creative, unstable mother--and as a teenager by her brilliant, aloof father. A singular look at an American icon, it is also a beautiful coming of age story of a young girl finding her way under extraordinary circumstances.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ work has appeared in Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, The LA Times, The Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, and the Harvard Advocate. She has a BA in English Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College.
3.3:The New Art and Science of Breath By James Nestor Nonfiction | Riverhead | Spring 2019 | World RightsAgent: Danielle Svetcov/ Levine Greenberg Rostan Manuscript date TK
A journalistic exploration of the emerging and often wildly curious field of breathing, introducing pulmonology researchers on the edge of startling new discoveries and
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"breath hackers" who are tapping the human body's hidden potential in endurance, weight control, immune response, and longevity.
James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. His book, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, was a BBC Book of the Week, a PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014,ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, Scientific American Recommended Read, Christian Science Monitor Editor’s Pick, and more.
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THE LAST DAYS OF MAGIC: A Novel By Mark TompkinsFiction | Viking | March 1, 2016 Agent: The Gernert Company, Inc.Manuscript available
An epic novel of magic and mysticism set in medieval Ireland, where Celts and faeries, mad kings and Druids, stalwart warriors and the wounded goddess destined to unite them confront the ambitions of the Vatican and England's Richard II.
Mark Tompkin is a writer and entrepreneur. He founded the Aspen Writers' Network and serves on the board of the Aspen Writers' Foundation. He is also a published poet and photographer, whose work is held in the permanent collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad.
EARLY PRAISE“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate, reaching all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the way forward to now, Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.” —Karen Joy Fowler
“Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange.”—Geraldine Brooks
“A wild grab bag of myth, history, folklore, and the fantastical, The Last Days of Magic is the perfect read for a frozen evening by the fire or a summer night in firefly country. It fills Ireland with blood, monsters, and witchcraft, and fans of Deborah Harkness and Erin Morgenstern will delight in it.”—Maria Dahvana Headley
“A half-goddess, a Vatican mercenary, kings, queens, warriors, and faery creatures battle for control of Ireland in this historical fantasy adventure. . . . Tompkins creates an intriguing world stocked with colorful characters and rich with biblical and mythological allusions.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Tompkins combines deft characterization with treachery, battle, magic, and hints of Dan Brown.”—Publishers Weekly
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“Reading The Last Days of Magic is like playing a well-constructed video game . . . It’s an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.”—Diana Gabaldon for The Washington Post
“A fantastical treat.” —People
THE HIKE: A Novel By Drew MagaryFiction | Viking | August 2, 2016 Agent: Waxman Leavell Literary AgencyManuscript available
From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you've read before: an inventive dark fairy tale, a profound meditation on family and free will, and a brilliant story of one man's long sought after homecoming.
Drew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. His GQ profile of the Duck Dynasty family was the most widely read article in the history of the magazine. He is also the author of the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt and the novel The Postmortal, which was published in six languages, and was a finalist for the Philip K Dick Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His writing has appeared in Maxim, New York, NPR, NBC, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, The Huffington Post, the Awl, Gawker, Penthouse, Playboy, Yahoo!, ESPN, Rolling Stone, Comedy Central, and more. He has been featured on Good Morning America and has been interviewed by the AV Club, the New York Observer, USA Today, US News, and many others.
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THE MOTHERS: A NovelBy Brit Bennett Fiction | Riverhead | October 11, 2016 Agent: Julia Kardon/ Mary Evans Manuscript available 2016 BEA Buzz Panel selection
The Hurston/Wright and Hopwood Award-winning writer’s thrilling and accomplished literary debut about a complicated friendship and love triangle in a black community in contemporary California, and how that community is jeopardized when the sins of the mothers are visited upon their daughters.
Brit Bennett was raised in southern California and graduated from Stanford University, where she won the Bocock/Guerard and Robert M. Golden Thesis prizes for her fiction. She earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award in College Writing. She is a newly appointed contributor to the op-ed page of the New York Times and her work is featured in Kweli Journal, Day One, and Jezebel.
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EARLY PRAISE"Brit Bennett's masterful debut is brimming with unforgettable scenes and the sort of keenly-observed, precise language that makes you look at your own relationships anew. Told with the wisdom of a seasoned, compassionate storyteller, The Mothers is a novel about community, friendship, grief and growth. The two women at the center of this novel are characters you will find yourself thinking about long after you've turned the last page-- they pull you in close and never let you go. Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature." —Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner House
"Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is a brilliant exploration of friendship, desire, inheritance, the love we seek, and the love we settle for. It is the kind of book that from its first page seduces you into knowing that the heartbreak coming will be worth it." —Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
"Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is an engaging and assured debut novel of depth, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society." —Chigozie Obioma, author of Man Booker Prize-finalist The Fishermen
RESCUE DISTANCE/DISTANCIA DE RESCATEBy Samanta Schweblin; translated by Megan McDowell Fiction | Riverhead | Spring 2017 Agent: Gloria Gutierrez/ Carmen Balcells Agency Manuscript available
A taut, suspenseful short novel of young boy named David who interrogates a woman, Amanda, dying in a hospital of a mysterious illness. Through their hypnotic narrative, they tell the haunting story of David’s mother, Carla, and her friendship with Amanda, her growing obsession with Amanda’s daughter, Nina, and the circumstances of David’s own identity. And the disturbing, ominous invasion and contamination that threatens them all. Like Helen
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Oyeyemi or Ottessa Moshfegh, Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace. As Amanda and her daughter are drawn into the creepy web that Carla and David have woven, what distance will she go to in order to save herself and her child, and to understand what has happened to her?
Samanta Schweblin was among the 22 best Spanish language writers under 35 selected by Granta Espanol. She is Argentinian, lives in Berlin, and speaks English.
PRAISE for Rescue Distance: "A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Rescue Distance is a triumph of Schweblin's outlandish imagination." —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
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BIRDS IN THE MOUTH/PAJAROS EN LA BOCA By Samanta Schweblin; to be translated by Megan McDowell Fiction | Riverhead | Winter 2018 Agent: Gloria Gutierrez/ Carmen Balcells Agency Manuscript date TK
An award-winning collection of extraordinary, Kafka meets Flannery O’Connor, dreamy yet spare stories.
PRAISE for Birds in the Mouth and Samanta Schweblin: “[Samanta] has a unique, inventive voice, and her stories have this ability to veer off into strange and unexpected territories with sublime grace. I admire and envy this gift.”—Daniel Alarcon, author of At Night We Walk in Circles
"Samanta Schweblin is one of the most promising voices in modern literature in Spanish." —Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize-winning author
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IMPOSSIBLE VIEWS OF THE WORLD: A Novel By Lucy IvesFiction | Penguin Press | Spring 2017Agent: Cynthia Cannell Literary AgencyManuscript due June 2016
Triple Canopy editor and poet Lucy Ives’ debut novel, part Possession, part Bridget Jones's Diary, about a junior curator at a prestigious New York museum who negotiates the disastrous end of an early marriage and various workplace fiascos while uncovering the history of a long-lost utopian community.
Lucy Ives earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first collection, the book-length poem Anamnesis (2009), won the Slope Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of the “brief novel” Nineties (2013); a poetry and essay collection, Orange Roses (2013); and a collection of poetry and prose including a novella, The Worldkillers (2014). Ives won an Iowa Arts Fellowship, as well as a MacCracken Fellowship. She is the editor of Triple Canopy and lives in New York City, where she is completing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University.
UNTITLEDBy Masha GessenNonfiction | Riverhead | Fall 2017 Agent: Elyse Cheney Associates Manuscript due Fall 2016
The award-winning journalist paints a portrait of contemporary Russia in the style of George Packer’s The Unwinding, following half a dozen characters who collectively convey what life is like in Putin’s new ideologically driven Russia and how it got that way.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist who is the author of several books, including The Brothers, the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications, and has received numerous awards, most recently the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has served as the editor of several publications and as director of Radio Liberty’s Russia Service.
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