Clients

CURRENT

Maud Newton – Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, March 2022)
Ada Limón – The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions, May 2022)
Tom Perrotta – Tracy Flick Can’t Win (Scribner, June 2022)
Namwali Serpell – The Furrows (Hogarth Books/Penguin Random House, September 2022)
Jonathan Escoffery – If I Survive You (MCD/FSG, September 2022)
The Whiting Foundation – year-round, including the Whiting Awards, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, and Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes – in collaboration with Whitney Peeling

FORMER

Clint Smith – How the Word Is Passed: A Journey across the Country That Black America Built (Little, Brown), an instant #1 New York Times and National Indie bestseller; one of Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2021”; a finalist for the NBCC Nonfiction Award; longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award in Nonfiction; one of GQ‘s “50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century” and one of TIME‘s “10 Best Fiction Books of 2021”; named a best book of 2021 by the New York Times, TIME, Esquire, the Economist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, BookPage, Kirkus, and Library Journal; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection – joint project in collaboration with Whitney Peeling
Anthony Veasna So – Afterparties (Ecco), an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book; longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of TIME‘s “10 Best Fiction Books of 2021,” NPR Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan’s 10 “Best Books of 2021” list, and L.A. Times critic Mark Athitakis’s “5 Best Fiction Books of 2021”; named a best book of 2021 by the New York Times, the Atlantic, TIME, NPR, Washington Post, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and Kirkus
Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House (Grove Atlantic), winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award; finalist for an NAACP Image Award; cover of the New York Times Book Review (review by Angela Flournoy); a New York Times and National Indie bestseller; one of GQ‘s “50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century”; one of the New York Times‘s “Ten Best Books of 2019,” a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Ayad Akhtar – Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown), one of the New York Times‘ “Top 10 Books of 2021” and New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of the Washington Post‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Entertainment Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” New Yorker critic Katy Waldman’s “10 Favorite Novels of 2020,” Slate‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Publishers Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” TIME‘s “10 Best Fiction Books of 2020,” Oprah Magazine‘s “20 Best Books of 2020,” and Kirkus Reviews‘ “Best Fiction Books of 2020”; winner of the 2021 American Book Award and finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Natasha Trethewey – Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Ecco), an instant New York Times bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction; one of the Washington Post‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” L.A. Times’s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Slate‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” and TIME‘s “10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020”; finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and Monument: Poems New and Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), longlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Namwali Serpell – The Old Drift (Hogarth/Penguon Random House), winner of a Windham-Campbell Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award; cover of the New York Times Book Review (review by Salman Rushdie); a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Kevin Young – African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; one of New York Times critic Parul Sehgal’s “Top Ten Books of 2020,” New York Times Book Review‘s “Best Poetry Books of 2020,” Chicago Tribune‘s “10 Best Books of 2020,” Barnes & Noble’s “10 Best Poetry Books of 2020,” Oprah Magazine‘s “20 Best Books of 2020,” TIME‘s “100 Must-Reads of 2020,” and Esquire‘s “Best Books of 2020”; and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction; National Book Award longlist; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist; and New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Ada Limón – The Carrying (Milkweed Editions), winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and a $75,000 PEN Jean Stein Award finalist
Leslie Jamison – Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays (Little, Brown), finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay; and The Recovering: Addiction and its Aftermath (Little, Brown), a New York Times and Indie bestseller; one of Entertainment Weekly‘s “10 Best Books of the Decade” and Entertainment Weekly‘s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2018; Lit Hub‘s #1 Best-Reviewed Memoir of 2018; and a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Luis Alberto Urrea –The House of Broken Angels (Little, Brown), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; cover of the New York Times Book Review; New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; and Indie bestseller
Maggie Nelson – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press), an instant National Indie bestseller; one of L.A. Times critic Jessica Ferri’s “5 Best Books of 2021”; named a best book of 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, and Boston Globe; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Tom Perrotta – Mrs. Fletcher (Scribner), cover of the New York Times Book Review; a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times and Indie bestseller
Kristen Radtke – Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness (Pantheon), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellent in Nonfiction and longlisted for the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; named a best book of 2021 by NPR, TIME, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Kirkus, and Booklist; and Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Gabriela Garcia – Of Women and Salt (Flatiron/Macmillan), a New York Times and National Indie bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; winner of the “Isabel Allende Fiction Book Award” from the Latino Book Awards; named a best book of 2021 by the Washington Post and Boston Globe
Mary-Louise Parker – Dear Mr. You (Scribner), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times and Indie bestseller
Te-Ping Chen – Land of Big Numbers (HMH), one of Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; named a best book of 2021 by the Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Philadelphia Inquirer, Electric Literature, and Kirkus
Janice P. Nimura – The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (Norton), an instant New York Times and Indie bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection – joint project in collaboration with Whitney Peeling; and Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (W. W. Norton), a New York Times Notable Book
Nicole Dennis-Benn – Patsy (Liveright/W.W. Norton), finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and Lambda Literary Award; longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award; a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection; and Here Comes the Sun (Liveright/W.W. Norton), a Lambda Literary Award winner; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize shortlist; National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award finalist; Young Lions Award finalist; and New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Jordy Rosenberg – Confessions of the Fox (One World/Penguin Random House), shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; a Lambda Literary Award finalist; and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Elizabeth McCracken – Bowlaway (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Edward Carey – Little (Riverhead Books) and Heap House (Overlook Press), a New York Times Notable Book
Paul Lisicky – Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (Graywolf Press), an NPR “Best Book of 2020” pick
Vikram Chandra – Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press), an NBCC Award in Criticism finalist; a New York Times bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, and New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Mark Doty – What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (Norton)
Megan Abbott – Give Me Your Hand (Little, Brown), finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Adrienne Brodeur – Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a New England Society 2020 Book Award winner
Lidia Yuknavitch – The Book of Joan (Harper), cover of the New York Times Book Review and a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editor’s Choice selection
Chelsey Johnson – Stray City (Custom House/HarperCollins), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Max Porter – Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Belle Boggs – The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Graywolf Press), a PEN Award for the Art of the Essay finalist and cover of the New York Times Book Review
Matthew Zapruder – Why Poetry (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Lauren Grodstein – Our Short History (Algonquin Books)
Christopher Bollen – The Destroyers (Harper), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection
Sunil Yapa – Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, paperback edition (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
Adam Grant – Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Viking), a #1 New York Times bestseller
Tim Johnston – Descent (Algonquin Books), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
Sara Gruen – At the Water’s Edge (Spiegel & Grau/Random House), a New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller
Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree – Our Secret Life in the Movies (A Strange Object)
Cary Fowler – Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault (Prospecta Press)
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