Clients

CURRENT

Abraham Verghese – The Covenant of Water (Grove Atlantic), an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller; New York Times Editors’ Choice; Oprah Book Club selection
Safiya Sinclair – How to Say Babylon (Simon & Schuster, October 2023) – in collaboration with Whitney Peeling
Nathan Thrall – A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Metropolitan/Holt, October 2023), longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
Vanessa Chan – The Storm We Made (Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster, January 2024)
Rachel Khong – Real Americans (Knopf, April 2024)
Ada Limón – You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, April 2024)
The Whiting Foundation – year-round, including the Whiting Awards, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, and Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes – in collaboration with Whitney Peeling

FORMER

Megan Abbott – Give Me Your Hand (Little, Brown), finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Ayad Akhtar – Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown), one of the New York Times‘ “Ten Best 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; 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”; winner of the 2021 American Book Award and finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
American Booksellers Association
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
Christopher Bollen – The Destroyers (Harper), a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Adrienne Brodeur – Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a New England Society 2020 Book Award winner
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; 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
Edward Carey – Little (Riverhead Books) and Heap House (Overlook Press), a New York Times Notable Book
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
Te-Ping Chen – Land of Big Numbers (HMH), one of Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Nicole Chung – A Living Remedy (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize
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; and Here Comes the Sun (Liveright/W.W. Norton), a Lambda Literary Award winner; Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist; National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award finalist; Young Lions Award finalist; and New York Times Notable Book and New York Times Editors’ Choice
Mark Doty – What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (Norton)
Jonathan Escoffery – If I Survive You (MCD/FSG), finalist for the Booker Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, and the NBCC John Leonard Prize; longlisted for the National Book Award, $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction, and the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize; an instant National Indie bestseller; a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Cary Fowler – Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault (Prospecta Press)
Gabriela Garcia – Of Women and Salt (Flatiron/Macmillan), a New York Times and National Indie bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; winner of the “Isabel Allende Fiction Book Award” from the Latino Book Awards
Lauren Grodstein – Our Short History (Algonquin Books)
Adam Grant – Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Viking), a #1 New York Times bestseller
Sara Gruen – At the Water’s Edge (Spiegel & Grau/Random House), a New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie bestseller
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
Chelsey Johnson – Stray City (Custom House/HarperCollins), a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Tim Johnston – Descent (Algonquin Books), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie bestseller
Ada Limón – The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Best Poetry Collection; and The Carrying (Milkweed Editions), winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and a $75,000 PEN Jean Stein Award finalist
Paul Lisicky – Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (Graywolf Press)
Elizabeth McCracken – Bowlaway (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree – Our Secret Life in the Movies (A Strange Object)
Maggie Nelson – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press), an instant National Indie bestseller and New York Times Editors’ Choice
Maud Newton – Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House), finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, New York Times Editors’ Choice
Janice P. Nimura – The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (Norton), a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography, instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice – 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 and New York Times Editors’ Choice
Mary-Louise Parker – Dear Mr. You (Scribner), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and New York Times and National Indie bestseller
Tom Perrotta – Tracy Flick Can’t Win (Scribner), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and Mrs. Fletcher (Scribner), cover of the New York Times Book Review; a New York Times Editors’ Choice and New York Times and National Indie bestseller
Max Porter – Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press), a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Kristen Radtke – Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness (Pantheon), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellent in Nonfiction, and a 2022 Eisner Award; longlisted for the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon), a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Jordy Rosenberg – Confessions of the Fox (One World/Penguin Random House), finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; a Lambda Literary Award finalist; and a New York Times Editors’ Choice
Namwali Serpell – The Furrows (Hogarth/Penguin Random House), finalist for the NBCC Award in Fiction; longlisted for the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction; one of the New York Times‘ “Ten Best Books of 2022” and one of Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2022”; a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and The Old Drift (Hogarth/Penguin 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
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 and named one of the New York Times‘ “Ten Best Books of 2021”; one of Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2021”; winner of the NBCC Nonfiction Award and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism; a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award in Nonfiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction; one of GQ‘s “50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century”; a New York Times Editors’ Choice – joint project in collaboration with Whitney Peeling
Anthony Veasna So – Afterparties (Ecco), an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller; winner of the NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction; longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; a New York Times Editors’ Choice
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; 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
Luis Alberto Urrea – Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown), an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller; a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and 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; National Indie bestseller
The Whiting Foundation
Sunil Yapa – Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, paperback edition (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown)
Kevin Young – African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; 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,” and Barnes & Noble’s “10 Best Poetry 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
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
Matthew Zapruder – Why Poetry (Ecco), a New York Times Editors’ Choice