• THE UNSEEN CITY by Nate Johnson
(Rodale, Spring 2016)
Resident
food writer at Grist, Michael Pollan
protégé, and author of All Natural
(2013), Nate Johnson explores urban wildlife in his second book. A guidebook for city dwellers to the natural
world that is hidden in plain sight around us, THE UNSEEN CITY will cover
everything from pigeons (and why there are so many of them with only one leg!)
to weeds to insects, all in Nate’s signature frank and playful voice,
encouraging ourselves to ‘resensitize’ to nature, in all its forms and
presences.
• ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD: A Book of Hours by Jessica Kerwin
Jenkins (Nan A. Talese Books, November 5, 2013)
A second book
from Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, the author of Encyclopedia
of the Exquisite (Nan A. Talese Books, 2010) and former European editor for
W magazine. This second book, a sequel of sorts to Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, will take
its inspiration from 15th-century books of prayer, and will weave together
whimsical historical anecdotes from many eras and lands, including ancient
Rome, Medieval Japan, 18th century France, Victorian London, and 1940s era
Hollywood. Her first book sold to Rubybox in Korea, Parvenu in Holland, Vaga in
Lithuania, ars Vivendi in Germany, Chu Chen in China, and Ye-Ren in Taiwan.
Manuscript
available.
• A PASSION FOR BREAD: Lessons from a Master Baker—Seven Steps to Making Perfect Loaves by
Lionel Vatinet (Little, Brown, November 5, 2013)
A
book from the French-born member of the centuries-old guild Les Compagnons du
Devoir, owner of La Farm Bakery in Cary, North Carolina, Master Baker and
artisanal bread consultant, combining his knowledge of baking with an
accessible 7-step system for the home baker to make their own sourdough,
French, rye, challah, and other breads.
Manuscript
available.
World English rights controlled by Little,
Brown.
• THE KING MAKER: Jacob Fugger and the Birth of Modern Finance
by Greg Steinmetz (Simon & Schuster, Spring 2015)
A
narrative account of the life and times of Jacob Fugger—arguably the richest
man who ever lived and the man most responsible for creating, at the turn of
the 16th century, the system of finance and banking we practice
today. Fugger can be credited with bringing money to politics, crowning
emperors and bankrolling wars—even his smallest actions caused monumental
shifts. Steinmetz is a former Berlin and London Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal and a current
partner in the eminent investment firm Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb.
Manuscript
coming soon.
Russian
rights sold to AST; simplified Chinese rights sold to Beijing Mediatime;
Brazilian rights sold to Intrínseca; Turkish rights sold to Moda Ofset.
•
EYE OF THE SIXTIES: The Life and Times of Richard Hu Bellamy by Judith Stein (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, Spring 2015)
The first-ever biography of one of the most
influential and mysterious art dealers in the history of modern art, Richard Hu
Bellamy. Bellamy became a legend while
overseeing the fabled Green Gallery, where, in the 1960s, he showed Oldenburg,
Rosenquist, and Larry Poons, and premiered the minimalist sculpture of Donald
Judd, Dan Flavin, and Robert Morris.
Bellamy is the perfect Virgil to guide us through the floating world of
American culture in the 1960s, a moment when the boundaries between art and
life were never more fluid. Stein is a
Philadelphia-based writer and independent curator who specializes in postwar
American art. Her work on Richard Hu
Bellamy earned her a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers
Grant. For the past four decades her
writings have appeared in Art in America
and The New York Times Book Review.
World English rights controlled by Farrar,
Straus & Giroux.
The
next book from the author of A Renegade
History of the United States (Free Press, 2010) and professor of history at
Occidental College, reframing the history of American foreign policy and
exploring the enduring contradiction between “hard” military force and “soft”
cultural influences. Russell’s second installment of an already cult-classic
argues that the “worst” of American culture actually means freedom for the
Middle East and peace for the United States, presenting a radical, entirely new
history of the modern Muslim world and a solution for Americans who fear
Islamic terrorism but want the troops to come home.
World
English rights controlled by Grove Atlantic.
•
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BROADWAY MUSCIAL: How
Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
Spring 2015)
A
look into musical theater "song plots," the number-by-number
architecture that holds successful musicals together, through a mix of personal
experience and professional dramaturgy by VP and creative director of Jujamcym
Theaters and artistic director of Encores!, Jack Viertel. Jack swings through
American musical theater history, pulling apart shows we know and love,
identifying their building blocks, and helping us understand what it takes to
get an audience up on its feet at curtain call. Theater enthusiasts will enjoy
Jack’s inside scoop, but so will readers interested in cultural histories or
books about the creative process. The book will also appeal to a new wave of
musical-TV lovers—the ones that TiVo Smash, host Glee parties, and secretly
watch High School Musical.
•HAND DRAWN JOKES FOR SMART,
ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE by Matthew Diffee (Scribner, Fall 2015)
The
ingenious and laugh-out loud latest from cartoonist, columnist, radio
personality, and best-selling editor of The
Rejection Collection, Vols. I and II, Matthew Diffee. Featuring Matt’s signature brand of quirky, smart humor, this will
be a collection of ‘illustrated essays’, each a window into his delightful way
of seeing the world—it will also be his first book of all his own, brilliant
material. His previous books have been
very successful in the German and French markets.
• DREAM
CITIES by Wade Graham (Harper, Spring 2015)
American Eden (Harper 2011)
author’s exploration of how our cities, far from
being “natural” products of market forces, government policy, or changing
aesthetic fashions, are instead best understood as shifting, unsettled
battlegrounds of innovative, controversial, and often competing ideas, using
each chapter to focus on the life/work of a specific visionary, from Paolo
Soleri to Frank Lloyd Wright to Le Corbusier. Wade Graham is a PhD historian
and practicing landscape architect based in Los Angeles.
• MAKING
MONTE CARLO: Speculation and Spectacle in
the Roaring
Twenties
by Mark Braude (Simon & Schuster, Spring 2015)
The story of Monte Carlo in the 1920’s—how the
city rose from the ashes of the First World War to become one of the world’s
most infamous and storied playgrounds of the rich, only to then crash under its
own weight in 1929—is a fascinating micro-history populated with an
international cast of raucous, colorful characters. These larger-than-life
personalities do more than guide us through an entertaining look of the
dizzying rise (and fall) of a city—they act as a lens through which we can
examine ideas such as the modern conception of “the good life”; the birth of
publicity and “branding” vis a vis travel and resorts; the selling of “luxury”
to the middle class; a case study of social engineering involving wealth,
class, business, and entertainment.
• THE GLASS OF FASHION: A Lifetime of Lessons in Style by Hamish
Bowles (Knopf, Spring 2016)
Vogue editor
and fashion curator Hamish Bowles' highly idiosyncratic history of style and
taste over the last 30 years told from a first person perspective. With a
kaleidoscopic mixture of encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Hamish
brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history collide. From creating
a makeshift fontange at age four to winning a British Vogue talent contest at age fourteen, from becoming the youngest fashion director ever at Harpers
& Queen at age twenty-two to moving up the ranks at Vogue to become the
International Editor at Large in 2011, Hamish has collected the equivalent of
four PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture. He’s
known and learned from scores of the most significant tastemakers of the last
several decades, and he’ll bring to life a cast of characters never before
assembled on one stage. His book will honor those who influenced him and
indirectly chart his influence on others—all in his charming, elegant, and
accessible prose.
UK
rights sold to Little, Brown.
• THE
FIRM: The Story of McKinsey and its Secret Influence on American Business
by Duff McDonald (Simon & Schuster, September 10, 2013)
A narrative account of the most powerful
and mysterious consulting firms in the world, McKinsey & Company, woven
into an historical look at the consulting industry in general. McKinsey,
comprised of an elite force of Ivy League graduates, is notorious for keeping
its machinations and inner workings veiled from the public eye, despite the
fact that it advises 80 of the 100 largest, most recognizable companies in the
United States, including AT&T, Wal-Mart, and, most recently, Conde Nast.
McDonald is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and has written
for Vanity Fair, GQ, Wired, and Time. His first
book, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of
Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase, was published by Simon & Schuster in
2009.
World English rights controlled by Simon
& Schuster.
Japanese rights sold to Diamond; Chinese
rights sold to CITIC; Turkish rights sold to Moda Ofset; Russian rights sold to
Atticus; Dutch rights sold to Promethueus; Brazilian rights sold to Saraiva.
• SAVING THE SEASON: A Cook’s Guide to Home Canning, Pickling,
and Preserving by Kevin West (Knopf, June 25, 2013)
A stylish, richly
illustrated, practical guide for home cooks and preserving enthusiasts, this is
the first cookbook from journalist Kevin West, author of the popular blog
Savingtheseason.com. Incorporating classic favorites and new flavors, West gives
us more than one hundred recipes, organized by season, for sweet preserves and
savory pickles; easy-to-can vegetables and fruits; condiments such as relishes,
chutneys, and salsas; and cordials, candies, and cocktails. Interspersed with
the recipes are chronicles of West's travels and the history of American
preserving traditions from California to New Mexico to Long Island. A witty and
erudite culinary companion, West makes a rich and entertaining story of the
introductions to the recipes. Also included is a primer on preserving
techniques that addresses issues of food safety and nutrition, as well as
several handy appendixes, including peak seasons for produce and produce
varieties.
World English rights controlled by Knopf.
• PAIN, PARTIES, WORK: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953, by Elizabeth Winder (Harper,
April 16, 2013)
A new and fresh narrative account, drawing
on letters, diary entries, personal schedules, and interviews, of the thirty
summer days in 1953 during which a young Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City
from Wellesley College for a coveted internship at Mademoiselle magazine, exploring the ways in which Plath’s
experience in New York inspired The Bell
Jar and forever shaped the young literary icon and her work.
Italian rights sold to Guanda/Gruppo
Editoriale Mauri Spagnol.
• HOW TO
BE A FRIEND TO A FRIEND WHO’S SICK by Letty Pogrebin (PublicAffairs, April 9, 2013)
Best-selling author and Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Pogrebin writes a guidebook to healthy, supportive friendships with people who become ill. Based on her own experience with cancer, as well as many interviews with friends and fellow patients, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick is a combination of personal narratives (both Letty's and those of others) and clear, accessible, invaluable advice. This lovely, plainspoken book deftly handles a heavy topic with a spirited tone, and fills a virtually empty space in the marketplace when it comes to prescriptive titles.
Best-selling author and Ms. magazine co-founder Letty Pogrebin writes a guidebook to healthy, supportive friendships with people who become ill. Based on her own experience with cancer, as well as many interviews with friends and fellow patients, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick is a combination of personal narratives (both Letty's and those of others) and clear, accessible, invaluable advice. This lovely, plainspoken book deftly handles a heavy topic with a spirited tone, and fills a virtually empty space in the marketplace when it comes to prescriptive titles.
Italian rights sold to Corbaccio; UK rights sold to
Silvertail; Complex Chinese rights sold to Sun Color Culture; Russian rights
sold to Gaytri/Livebook.
•
LATIN D’LITE: Delicious Latin Recipes with a Healthy Twist
by Ingrid Hoffmann (Celebra, April 2, 2013)
Ingrid
Hoffman, food personality, television star, and author of Delicioso (Clarkson Potter 2008), will offer a fresh approach to
modern Latin cuisine in this book, which will introduce the home cook to
easy-to-follow recipes that will not only promote a healthy lifestyle, but will
delight with bold and in some cases unexpected ingredients and flavors.
World Spanish rights controlled by Celebra.
•
ALL NATURAL*: *A Skeptic's Quest to Discover If the
Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps
Us Healthier and Happier
by Nathanael Johnson (Rodale, January
29, 2013)
A nonfiction book arguing that our
culture has overly romanticized all things natural and that the solutions to
most of the social, environmental, and health crises we face lie in rethinking
the relationship between the natural and the scientific approaches to them.
Johnson is an NPR producer and has written for Harper's, New York, Outside, and San Francisco magazines.
•
THE DISASTER DIARIES: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Apocolypse by Sam Sheridan (Penguin Press,
January 24, 2013)
A narrative first person account of a year spent learning and
putting into practice the kinds of skills necessary for surviving numerous
Apocalyptic scenarios, both realistic and fantastical. Sheridan, author of A
Fighter's Heart (Grove/Atlantic
2008) and The Fighter's Mind (Grove/Atlantic 2010), is an amateur martial artist, boxer, and
former wild-land firefighter, and has written for Newsweek and Men's
Journal.
Complex Chinese rights sold to Business Today.
•
WHAT’S A DOG FOR?: The Surprising
History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend by John
Homans (Penguin Press, November 8, 2012)
A narrative nonfiction exploration of the
co-evolution of man and dog, combining first-person reportage, memoir, and
state-of-the-art “dog science” research to understand the dog as an artifact of
human culture, and to trace the progression of the dog from its rural past to
its urban present and future. Homans is the executive editor of New York magazine
and former writer and editor for Esquire, Harpers, and The New
York Observer.
Japanese rights sold to Hankyu; Chinese rights
sold to New Century; Taiwanese rights sold to Lijiang; Italian rights sold to
Tarka; German rights to Springer Spektrum.
• WE KILLED: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen (Sarah Crichton
Books, October 16, 2012)
In We Killed, Kohen assembles America’s
most prominent comediennes (and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and
colleagues who revolved around them) to piece together the revolution that
happened to (and by) women in American comedy. We start in the 1950s, when comic
success meant ridiculing and desexualizing yourself. Joan Rivers and Phyllis
Diller emerged as America’s favorite frustrated ladies; the joke was always on
them. The Sixties saw the appearance of smart, edgy comediennes (Elaine May,
Lily Tomlin), and the women’s movement brought a new wave of radicals: the
women
of SNL, tough-ass stand-ups, and a more independent breed on TV (Mary
Tyler Moore and her sisters). There were battles to fight and preconceptions to
shake before we could get to where we finally are: in a world where women (like
Tina Fey, or, whether you like them or not, Sarah Silverman and Chelsea
Handler) can be smart, attractive, sexually confident—and most of all, flat-out
funny.
•
HOW TO LOOK HOT
IN A MINIVAN: A Real Woman’s Guide to Losing Weight, Looking Great, and
Dressing Chic in the Age of the Celebrity Mom by Janice Min (St. Martin’s, September 18, 2012)
An inspirational, prescriptive nonfiction
book offering advice to new mothers about how to stay and feel youthful and
attractive after becoming a mother, using tips from celebrity moms, fitness
experts, stylists, hairdressers, make up artists, and others. Min is the
editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter,
and is a former editor at People, In Style, and the former editor-in-chief
of US Weekly, where she grew the magazine's circulation from 1 million
to 1.9 million during her 6-year tenure.
Complex Chinese rights sold to Kai-Qi.
• THE LEAP: How to Survive & Thrive in the Sustainable Economy by Chris
Turner (Random House Canada, September 27, 2011; University Press of New
England, September 11, 2012)
Award-winning
Canadian journalist and book-writer, and author of the much acclaimed book The Geography of Hope (Random House
Canada 2007), Chris Turner’s new book
presents
a field guide to making the jump from our current system of energy supply and
consumption, which is rapidly and dangerously becoming obsolete, to a
sustainable model that functions across all socioeconomic spectrums. It is an integrated approach, one that he
calls a “great leap sideways,” because it’s a lateral economic leap that we all
can make. In other words, and unlike
other books in the category, Turner proposes a leap not into a confusing and
vague future but into a new world order that has already begun forming in various
countries across the globe.
Complex
Chinese rights sold to Cube Press.
• VICTORY: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman (Harper, June 5,
2012)
Supreme
Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman details the stunning story of
how a resourceful and dedicated minority transformed the notion of American
marriage equality and forged a campaign for cultural change that will serve as
a model for all future political movements. Victory:
The Triumphant Gay Revolution is the powerful story of a massive shift
in American culture, offering an insider’s view of the crucial struggle that is
leading to change, incorporating the author’s unique experiences and insights
and drawing upon new interviews—with movement titans such as Frank Kameny and
Phyllis Lyon, with next-generation activists such as Evan Wolfson of Freedom to
Marry, and with allies including the likes of New York Senator Kirsten
Gillibrand—to create a comprehensive, inspiring history of change in our time. Victory was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice book.
Swedish
rights sold to Karneval.
Film
rights option by ABC Studios for How to
Survive a Plague.
• UNCORKED: My Journey through the Crazy World of
Wine by Marco Pasanella (Clarkson Potter, May
22, 2012)
A narrative nonfiction account of the birth
and daily life of Pasanella & Son, the author's wine shop in downtown
Manhattan, guiding readers into the esoteric and often mysterious world of wine
producing, distributing, selling, and drinking. Pasanella, a former interior
designer and author of the book Living in Style Without Losing Your
Mind, wrote the "Room to Improve" column for The New
York Times, as well as pieces for GQ and Esquire.
He opened his shop in what used to be the old Fulton Fish Market in 2003.
World English rights controlled by Clarkson
Potter.
• MIKE WALLACE: A Life, by
Peter Rader (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, April 13, 2012)
The
first-ever biography of the legendary newsman, his six-decades-long career, his
battle with depression and suicide attempts, and his cultural legacy. Rader, a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and
documentarian, interviewed numerous friends, family, and current and former
colleagues of Wallace’s for the book.
Simplified
Chinese rights sold to Guangzhou Shengya Culture Communication Co.
Film
rights optioned by Rob Reiner/Castlerock; Peter adapting screenplay.
• REJECTION COLLECTION,
Volumes 1, 2 and Bind-up, edited by Matthew Diffee (Gallery, 2006-7; Workman,
October 2011)
THE
REJECTION COLLECTION: Cartoons You Never
Saw, and Will Never See, in The New Yorker (Vol. 1), and THE REJECTION
COLLECTION Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap make
up a beloved two-volume collection of many of The New Yorker cartoonists’ rejected work, which is now also
available from Workman as a paperback bind-up. The collections were edited by
magazine cartoonist, stand-up comedian, and humor lecturer Matthew Diffee. The
Boston Globe said of THE REJECTION COLLECTION, “It’s a howl,” and The New York
Times said, “The [cartoon] submissions, Mr. Diffee demonstrates, were not set
aside because they were not funny … but because they were too funny.” And the Chicago Tribune, which named the book
an Editor’s Choice, similarly asked, “Could they have been too good?”
French
rights sold to Les Arènes; German rights sold to Liebeskind.
• 100 RECIPES EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW: Engagement
Chicken and 99 Other Fabulous Dishes to Get Everything You Want in Life by Glamour Magazine (Hyperion, April 5, 2011)
Glamour magazine
editor-in-chief Cindi Leivi and her fellow editors present the third Glamour-branded cookbook,
this one centered around their famous "Engagement Chicken" recipe—a
roast chicken that has prompted more than 50 marriage proposals according to
the Glamour readers who've made the recipe for their boyfriends.
The book will feature their stories, as well as offer 99 other recipes to get
what you want out of life, including “Impress His Family Chardonnay Cake,”
“Feel Better Instantly Hot and Sour Chicken Soup,” and “Clean Out Your Fridge
Fried Rice.” Glamour has a readership of 12.4 million and a circulation
of 2.25 million. Glamour.com is the top young women’s magazine
website in America, averaging 3 million unique visitors per month—which means
that every second of the day, someone new visits Glamour.com. The magazine has editions in France, Germany,
Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa,
Spain, Sweden, the U.K., Bulgaria, and China.
World English
rights controlled by Hyperion.
Hungarian Rights sold to Scolar.
• NEVER LOSE AGAIN: Become a Top Negotiator by Asking the Right Questions by Steven
Babitsky and James Mangraviti (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, January 4,
2011)
A
guide for anyone seeking to improve their negotiation skills, and to learn
simple, direct strategies for all manner and levels of negotiation. The
book is organized around the principle that if people knew the right
questions to ask when negotiating they'd obtain much better results, be taken
advantage of far less, and tangibly improve their quality of life.
Babitsky and Mangraviti, both attorneys, run SEAK, Inc., a
Massachusetts-based business training and consulting firm, a core specialty of
which is teaching negotiation strategies.
Dutch
rights sold to Het Spectrum; Complex Chinese rights sold to China Times;
Simplified Chinese rights sold to Publishing House of the Electronics Industry;
Korean rights sold to Time Education Company Ltd.; Russian rights sold to
Popurri; Brazilian rights sold to Saraiva.
• THE VENUS FIXERS: The Remarkable Story of the
Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy’s Art During World War II by
Ilaria Dagnini Brey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 4, 2009)
A
colorful, narrative account, by New York-based Italian journalist Ilaria Brey,
of the subject of George Clooney’s forthcoming movie Monuments Men, a previously little-known group of American and
British scholar-aesthetes assembled by the Allied Forces during World War II to
rescue and preserve the artistic treasures of Italy, caught in the cross-fire
of the war.
Italian
rights sold to Mondadori; Complex Chinese rights sold to Goodness Publishing;
Simplified Chinese rights sold to Lijiang Publishing.
Author
of I Love Your Style and former Barney’s Fashion Director Amanda
Brooks’ non-fiction, fashion bildungsroman, looking back on her
years in the heady trenches: a first job as a photo assistant for Patrick
Demarchelier; the glamour and treachery of being a Gagosian "Gallery
Gallerina"; the various fashion posts for Tuleh, Frederic Fekkai, and
Hogan; and, finally, her rise to the position she thought was a "dream
job", but turned out to be a nightmare. One part coming-of-age memoir
filled with life lessons learned during Amanda’s years in the fashion business,
and one part prescriptive style how-to (by way of tips and side bars
throughout), the book will be highly relatable, relaying Amanda's ‘career gal’
aspirations and early successes and setbacks, while also giving a backstage
look at the day-to-day lives of the fashion elite.
• UNTITLED
FASHION MEMOIR
by Kate Betts (Spiegel & Grau, Fall,
2014)
A
coming of age memoir and an account of Betts’s initiation into the fashion
industry, in Paris (as the bureau chief of Women’s
Wear Daily), Milan, London, and then in New York, where she went to work
for Vogue. Betts is the author of EVERYDAY ICON: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style (Clarkson
Potter 2010), is the former editor-in-chief of Time Style & Design and Harper’s
Bazaar, and is a dailybeast.com contributor.
Manuscript coming soon.
World
English rights controlled by Spiegel & Grau.
• LET THE TORNADO COME: A Memoir of Fight, Flight, and Falling (For
a Horse) by Rita Zoey Chin (Simon & Schuster, Spring 2014)
A
remarkable memoir with three independent, intertwined narratives: a harrowing
story of a child runaway; a probing account of a mature woman trying to
overcome panic while exploring the limits of her marriage; and an uplifting
tale of a horse. Through unbridled determination, Rita learns to have
compassion toward her teenage runaway self, a part of her she thought she'd
buried forever, and toward a horse that others were ready to give up on. Rita
has attended the Breadloaf writer's conference, and has also worked as a
writing instructor at Grub Street. She now applies her riding talents as a
volunteer at the Germaine Lawrence School, where she is developing an
equestrian group for troubled teenage girls.
Manuscript coming soon.
• STAND UP STRAIGHT AND SING! by
Jessye Norman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2014)
Iconic
opera singer Jessye Norman's memoir, which traces a classic American story
through five decades, from Howard University to the world's greatest stages,
recounting her musical career and her family's African American roots. Jessye
Norman has performed with the world’s most celebrated orchestras and
symphonies, including the Orchestre de Paris, and the Philharmonics of Los
Angeles, New York, Berlin and London. The renowned soprano is the youngest ever
winner of a Kennedy Center Honor, has earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award, and received the National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama.
Manuscript coming soon.
UK
rights sold to Jeremy Robson.
• SPARK IN THE DARKNESS: A Memoir by Charles Blow (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, Fall 2014)
Visual
op-ed columnist for the New York Times Charles
Blow’s memoir is a coming-of-age story about finding one’s identity and coming
to terms with the past, however painful or inconvenient. A Louisiana native,
Charles, the youngest of five brothers, dealt with an early life of isolation
and ridicule that cause him to turn to schoolwork for salvation. Fueled by a
desire to please and to achieve, Charles lands an academic scholarship to
Grambling State University. It only took two years after graduation for The New York Times to recruit the
graphics wunderkind, who had invented a new kind of visual reporting as a
reporter at The Detroit News. Charles
was promoted shortly thereafter to become the
Times’ Graphics Director, making him one of the youngest department heads
in history at 25 years old. Today, Charles is the first and only visual op-ed
columnist and was recently named the 11th most influential African
American in the world by The Root
magazine. He is also a regular television personality and is in negotiations
with CNN to become a contracted contributor.
Manuscript coming soon.
World
English rights controlled by HMH.
• ROAD DOG: Confessions Of A Comedian In Search of His Soul by Dov Davidoff
(St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2014)
An unflinching look back on one
tumultuous year of comedian and TV personality Dov Davidoff’s life. In this
irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately heartfelt memoir, Davidoff takes the
reader deeply inside the comedy world, and reflects on his rollercoaster
childhood and youth. Dov shines a light on the underbelly of the American
comedy scene, exposing the hits, the misses, and the hard-to-swallow truths
that constitute a life on the road, crisscrossing the country performing at
clubs that range from the storied to the seedy. Along with a cast of both
lovable and unsavory characters that take us to a slew of colorful and
unexpected places, Dov poignantly and intelligently articulates the insecurity,
competition, and loneliness that characterize the world’s funniest profession.
PUBLISHED
• KEEPING HOPE ALIVE: One Woman, 90,000 Lives Changed by Dr.
Hawa Abdi, with Sarah Robbins (Grand Central, April 2, 2013)
Somali
doctor and lawyer Hawa Abdi’s memoir, recounting her and her two doctor
daughters’ experiences overseeing a vast refugee camp sheltering 90,000
displaced people in civil war-torn Somalia on their 1,000 acre plot of land, on
which she has built a hospital and a school.
The ever-inspiring Dr. Abdi was nominated for a Nobel Prize, was Glamour’s Woman of the Year in 2010,
speaks often at panels and summits alongside the likes of Hillary Clinton and
Ashley Judd, and was recently honored at the Vital Voices Global Leadership
Awards.
World
English rights controlled by Grand Central, UK rights sold to Virago.
French
rights sold to Editions JC Lattès; Turkish rights sold to Moda Ofset; Italian
rights sold to Valardi Editore; Czech rights sold to Triton.
• THE HEAVY: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet—A Memoir by Dara-Lynn Weiss
(Ballantine, January 15, 2013)
Vogue “Up Front” writer Dara-Lynn Weiss’s memoir about helping her
seven year-old daughter lose weight. In the wake of the highly controversial
media hailstorm surrounding her parenting decisions concerning her daughter
Bea’s weight, Weiss’s experience epitomizes the modern parenting “damned
if you do/damned if you don't” predicament. The
Heavy is
the story of one family’s relatable, difficult, and ultimately achievable
battle against childhood obesity.
Australian rights sold to Random House Australia; German rights
sold to Edel.
• THE
LONGEST WAY HOME: One Man's Quest for the
Courage to Settle Down by Andrew
McCarthy (Free Press, September 18, 2012)
A New York Times best-selling memoir by
the actor known for such iconic movies as “Pretty in Pink” and “Weekend At
Bernie’s,” and known more recently as an award-winning travel writer, exploring
the tumultuous and circuitous route he has traveled to finally settle down with
one woman, who he will marry this summer.
McCarthy explores this route through the lens of seven exotic trips,
from the Amazon to Kilimanjaro, as well as past trips that shaped him as a
movie star and as a man, connecting his obsession with travel to his phobia of
commitment, and culminating with his wedding day, in his future wife’s native
Dublin.
Simplified
Chinese rights sold to Alpha Books.
• A GOOD MAN: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver by Mark K. Shriver (Henry
Holt, June 5, 2012)
An
account of the Shriver’s relationship and life with his father, Sargent
Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps; an architect of American
President Lyndon B. Johnson's “War on Poverty”; a former U.S. Ambassador
to France and candidate for President and Vice President; and
husband, for 56 years, of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of John F.
Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and herself a renowned public servant
as founder of Special Olympics in 1968. A GOOD MAN celebrates a man widely
praised by family, friends, and presidents alike as a
warrior for peace, and as a devoutly spiritual person whose guiding principles
in life were unwavering faith, hope and love. Shriver explores how he was
shaped by these principles more than he realized until his father’s decline into
Alzheimer’s and recent death. Shriver is the SVP of U.S. Programs at the
Save the Children foundation.
• FULL SERVICE: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret
Sex Live of the Stars
by Scotty Bowers, with Lionel
Friedberg (Grove/Atlantic, February 14, 2012)
With
over 100,000 copies sold so far, this New
York Times best-selling memoir tells the story of Scotty Bowers, a legend
among the members of the Hollywood cognoscenti, who, for decades, have known
about Scotty and the infamous Hollywood Richfield gas station on Hollywood
Boulevard that he turned into the secret sexual epicenter of post World War II Los
Angeles. Within only a few years of moving to Los Angeles after the war, Scotty
was connecting his friends (and himself) with scores of Hollywood insiders and
the major stars of the era—closeted and un-closeted; single and married; male
and female. Scotty’s and his tricks’
liaisons included everyone from Rita Hayworth to Tennessee Williams; Edith Piaf
to Cole Porter; Desi Arnaz, to Shelley Winters; The Duke of Windsor to Katherine
Hepburn, James Dean, and Howard Hughes. Dozens of producers, directors, legendary
hairstylists, set decorators, and costumers crossed his path as Scotty himself
continued to “trick” as well as arrange for others to “trick” through the early
1970s, though by then the culture had changed drastically, and people had other
ways to find one another for sex. Scotty’s memoir is about America’s
puritanical roots and complex relationship to sex; about the studio system and
image creation; about hypocrisy and secrecy and power. Scotty is a spritely eighty-nine years old,
still lives in Los Angeles, and has an uncannily sharp mind and lucid memory.
World
English controlled by Grove Atlantic; UK rights sold to Atlantic Monthly Press.
French
rights sold to Hugo et Ciel; Polish rights sold to Jereny Ram; Russian rights
sold to Terra/Knigovek; Spanish rights sold to Editorial Anagrama.
Documentary
rights under option with Submarine/Matt Tyranauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor,
2008)
• LE FREAK: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny by Nile Rodgers
(Spiegel & Grau, October 18, 2011)
Legendary,
multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning music producer, songwriter, and Chic
band-member Nile Rodgers’s memoir of his inimitable life journey. Nile details his childhood growing up with
biracial heroin-addicted beatnik parents in the Hasidic Lower East Side of
Manhattan; his adolescence as a glue-sniffing hippie in Los Angeles hanging
with Timothy Leary; his family’s extended forays into prostitution, crime,
incest, murder, and overdoses; his young life as an emancipated teen sleeping
and panhandling in the subway in New York City; his time as a martial arts
expert with the Black Panthers; his role with “Sesame Street”; his gig at the
Apollo theater at age seventeen; the dawn of disco and swinging at Studio 54;
organized crime, kidnapping; cocaine psychosis; his détente with my family (all
of whom he’d supported since age 20, buying them more than 30 cars and a few
houses along the way); getting sober; working with Madonna, David Bowie, Diana
Ross, and many others; and becoming very wealthy by writing, producing and
performing on some of the biggest hit records of all time. It’s the story of Black hippies and White
junkies; Greenwich Village, Harlem, and the Bronx; New York and Los Angeles;
Motown meeting rock n’ roll to become disco—and it animates nearly all of the
key cultural, political, social, and musical shifts in the world over the last
five decades.
World
English rights controlled by Spiegel & Grau/Random House; UK rights sold to Sphere/Little, Brown UK.
French
rights sold to Fromentin.
• VIDEO SLUT: How I
Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple
Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad and Got a Waterfall to
Flow Backward So I Could Bring Rock Videos to the Masses
by Sharon Oreck (Faber & Faber, May 25, 2010)
A
humorous memoir by the veteran music video producer
Sharon Oreck recounting her journey from teen mother to top producer and her
tales of making hundreds of iconic music videos with major rock stars,
including Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, Sting, Chris Isaak, Sheila E, and
Mick Jagger.
·
SLAVE HUNTER: One
Man’s Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking by Aaron Cohen with
Christine Buckley (Simon Spotlight, June 23, 2009)
A memoir by former Jane’s Addiction executive director Aaron Cohen
describing the author’s personal journey from teen water polo star to
rock-and-roll drug addiction, from rehab to spiritual re-awakening, and from
co-founding the “Drop the Debt” campaign to official and dangerous undercover
work rescuing human trafficking and sex slave victims in South America, Africa,
Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Complex
Chinese rights to Apocalypse Press; Portuguese rights sold to Dom Quixote.
Sex Slave Hunter, starring Aaron, to
premier this fall on MSNBC.
fiction
A
second novel from Mrs. Queen Takes the
Train author Bill Kuhn, this one telling a fictionalized account of love,
sex, and scandal between several turn of the century aristocrats, artists, and
their patrons, most notably Isabella Stewart Gardner and John Singer Sargent. Set to
publish in tandem with the Sargent show which will open first in the National
Portrait Gallery in London and then at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
World English controlled by Harper.
• THE IDEA OF HIM: A Novel by Holly Peterson (William
Morrow, April 1, 2014)
Holly
Peterson’s second novel following The
Manny (Dial Press 2007), a New York Times bestseller, is about a
woman, Mary Crawford, breaking free from her past in order to reclaim her life.
Set within Manhattan’s upper crust, the story follows Mary as she leaves her
husband and denies the world of social climbing elite that she’s grown accustomed
to for a life of her own. Peterson was a producer at ABC News, and a writer and
contributing editor for Newsweek. The Manny hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week, as well as the
Barnes and Noble bestseller list, and received excellent reviews in USA Today (both a hot pick highlight and
their summer pick), Time, and Redbook. The Manny also received coverage in Marie Claire, Parents,
and WWD magazine.
Manuscript available.
• SILENCE ONCE BEGUN: A Novel by Jesse Ball (Pantheon, January
28, 2014)
A
fourth novel from The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize
winner and author of Samedi the Deafness,
The Way Through Doors, and The Curfew (all Vintage), tells the
story of a rash of disappearances in Japan, a shocking confession and the
ensuing trial for kidnapping murder, and the mysteriously silent
confessor. Told through interviews,
letters, court transcripts, and diaries, SILENCE ONCE BEGUN is a chilling
exploration of the deceptiveness of appearances and the unknowable range of
human motivations. This is Ball’s first novel in hardcover
Manuscript available.
We
control French rights only.
• TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: A Novel by John Kenney (Touchstone, January 22, 2013)
A wickedly
funny, honest, and poignant debut novel in the spirit of Then We Came
to the End and This Is Where I Leave You about the
absurdity of corporate life, the complications of love, and the meaning of
family. Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite
escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful
career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he’s a bit of a mess and closing in on
forty. He’s recently called off a wedding, and has just learned that his
long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. It’s a wake-up call for
Fin to re-evaluate the choices he’s made and finally tell the truth about his
life and his past. First-time novelist
John Kenney, regular humor contributor to The New Yorker, The New
York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, mines his own advertising
background to weave spot-on, compelling insider detail into a hilarious,
insightful, at times sardonic, and ultimately moving debut. Film rights are
currently under option with John adapting the screenplay.
German
rights sold to Goldmann.
Film
rights under option with Lynn Hendee and Bob Chartoff; John is adapting.
• MRS. QUEEN TAKES
THE TRAIN by William Kuhn (Harper, October 16, 2012)
A
debut novel from Ph.D historian William Kuhn, about the Queen of England, who
leaves Buckingham Palace unannounced—an event known only to a ragtag group of
six, who vow to find her and bring her back before MI6 and the tabloids turn
her disappearance into a national event. Much like Alan Bennett’s hit The Uncommon Reader, MRS QUEEN TAKES THE
TRAIN captures the faded but enduring glamour and glory of a seemingly arcane
institution, and of a woman who herself wonders if she, too, has become
outmoded. As the plot unfolds, so do the
upstairs/downstairs dynamics of the “Household” at Buckingham Palace, as well
as the tensions between the monarchy and the government. The novel also captures the often-hilarious
incongruity between competing generations, each of which thinks it knows best. William
Kuhn (no relation to David Kuhn) is a biographer, historian, and the author,
most recently, of Reading Jackie: Her
Autobiography in Books, an account of the editorial life of Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, which Nan A. Talese Books published last year. Kuhn is also
the author of three other previous books: The
Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Pocket Books 2006), Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court
of Queen Victoria (Duckworth 2002), and Democratic
Royalism (Palgrave Macmillan 1996).
UK
& Australian rights sold to Allen & Unwin; Spanish rights sold to Plaza
& Yanez; Polish rights sold to Weltbild Polska.
Film
rights under option with The Weinstein Company.
Turkish rights sold to Pozitif; Latin
American rights sold to La Bestia Equilátera.
• IT IS ABOUT A LITTLE BIRD by
Jessica Lange (Sourcebooks, October 1, 2013)
Two-time
Academy award winner Jessica Lange's first children's book, IT IS
ABOUT A LITTLE BIRD, is based on a book that she created for her own granddaughters
and which will use photographs that she took and hand-tinted. It tells the story of two young girls who
find a golden birdcage in their grandmother's barn, which leads her to tell
them about her past adventures.
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