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Featured Titles
  1. > Chuck Palahniuk, PYGMY, New York Times Bestseller
  2. > Jim Hynes, NEXT
  3. > Peter Matthiessen, SHADOW COUNTRY, Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for fiction
  4. > Edward Gorey (estate)
  5. > Mario Puzo, SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH
  6. > Mario Puzo (estate)
  7. > Ed Falco, ST. JOHN OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS
  8. > Dan Epstein, LINCOLN’S MEN: The President and His Private Secretaries
  9. > Daniel Mark Epstein, THE LINCOLNS: PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE
  10. > Rick DeMarinis, MAMA’S BOY
  11. > Chris Bram, EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA
  12. > Nelson Algren, ENTRAPMENT AND OTHER WORKS
  13. > Leon Bing, SWANS AND PISTOLS: MODELING, MOTHERHOOD, AND MAKING IT IN THE ME DECADE
  14. > McKay Jenkins, A DEVIL’S BARGAIN: LIVING IN, AND SURVIVING IN, A TOXIC WORLD
  15. > Wes Davis, THE ARIADNE OBJECTIVE



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Chuck Palahniuk, PYGMY, New York Times Bestseller
In what may be his most important novel since FIGHT CLUB, Chuck Palahniuk gives us PYGMY, which debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. The narrator is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.


US & Canada: Doubleday
Available format: book
Foreign: Cape/UK, Mondadori/Italy, Goldmann/Germany, Mondadori/Spain, DeNoel/France, De Geus/Netherlands. AST/Russia, Rocco/Brazil, Euromedia/Czech Republic, Skip Info./Denmark, Stilo/Poland.
Options throughout the world: Folio/Ukraine; RAO/Romania, Random House Korea/Korea; Ayrinti Yayinlari/Turkey; Grup 62/Catalan, Kinneret/Israel.
Audio: Blackstone Audio
First Serial: Donadio & Olson
Film: Rich Green/CAA
Primary agent: Edward Hibbert


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Jim Hynes, NEXT
In taking us through a moment-by-moment account of a day in the life of Kevin Quinn—average, middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged American guy—Hynes is able to riff on a host of subjects that cut to the core of contemporary fears and aspirations. Kevin’s instinctive avoidance of pain or responsibility has left him haunted by loss, and fleeing Ann Arbor, Michigan—representing a dying progressive America—for hot, vibrant, rapidly over-expanding Austin, Texas. His seemingly paranoid fear of terrorism is played against a backdrop of fresh attacks in Europe and the U.S. that will culminate in Kevin’s own encounter with mortality, and a kind of Grace. Only Hynes could make this both heartbreaking and hilarious. “Hynes writes like Joyce on Quaaludes, in spiky, gorgeous language, with an eye for detail that is occasionally shocking in its apt particularity. He has an effortless recall of pop culture that is unparalleled in contemporary fiction. ‘Next’ occurs on one Bloomsday-like imaginary day and runs backward and forward in time to a heart-stopping finale that is one of the best endings of any novel I have ever read.”– Kate Christensen


US & Canada: Little, Brown
Available format:
manuscript (Pub.: March 2010)
Foreign: Donadio & Olson
Audio: Little, Brown
Film: Judi Farkas/Judi Farkas Management
First Serial: Donadio & Olson
Primary Agent: Neil Olson


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Peter Matthiessen, SHADOW COUNTRY, Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for fiction:
“One of the grand projects of contemporary literature,” (San Francisco Chronicle) follows the legacy of the notorious desperado E. J. Watson, who was gunned down by neighbors in the lawless frontier of the Florida Everglades. Polished and substantially revised by the author, the original trilogy—KILLING MISTER WATSON, LOST MAN’S RIVER, and BONE BY BONE—has now been rendered as a richer, more deeply textured single edition with Matthiessen’s powerful characters and vivid settings. Streamlined simplicity lends new vitality to this great work. Laying bare the humanity at the heart of a dangerous and controversial figure, this epic tale explores the abiding mystery of human nature. Praise for KILLING MISTER WATSON: “This novel stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review; Praise for LOST MAN’S RIVER: “A project of enormous ambition…Matthiessen has a perfect ear.”—The New York Times Book Review; Praise for BONE by BONE: “A superb novel, one that succeeds dramatically on every level. I read it in great gulps, up each night later than I wanted to be in my hunger impatience to find out more and more.”—Joseph Heller


US & Canada: Modern Library (Random House)
Available format:
Book
Foreign: Seix Barral/Spain
Audio: Blackstone Audio
Primary agent: Neil Olson


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Bloomsbury USA has recently acquired rights to and will publish three Edward Gorey works:
THE RECENTLY DEFLOWERED GIRL, THE WEST WING, and THE GLORIOUS NOSEBLEED.

Edward Gorey wrote over one hundred works, and illustrated more than sixty books by other authors, during his career. The New Yorker called him “A Man of enormous erudition…an artist and writer of genius.” His works include: THE GASHLYCRUMB TINIES, THE DOUBTFUL GUEST, THE LOATHSOME COUPLE, THE CURIOUS SOFA, THE EPIPLEPTIC BICYCLE, and many others. His works have also been anthologized in four different collections: AMPHIGOREY, AMPHIGOREY TOO, AMPHIGOREY ALSO, and AMPHIGOREY AGAIN. Gorey’s longtime German publisher, Diogenes, has reacquired the rights to many of his titles, and has recently released them in a new collection entitled THE LUGUBRIOUS LIBRARY.


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Mario Puzo, SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH:
Seven top-rank Nazi interrogators beamed happily at U.S. Intelligence Captain Mike Rogan. No more torture needed. The prisoner had screamed out the plans of an Allied attack. In gratitude, he is given a suit, a hat, a handshake, and a bullet in his skull. Left for dead, ten years pass before Rogan, a silver plate over his maddened brain, returned to search a continent for them all. Originally published in 1967, under the pseudonym, Mario Cleri.


US & Canada: Donadio and Olson
Foreign: Albatros/Poland, Ediciones B/Spain, and Quercus/UK, Shanghai 99/China, Euromedia/Czech Republic, Ikar/Slovakia, Globus/Bulgaria, Bertrand/Portugal.
Primary agent: Neil Olson
Available format: Book


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Mario Puzo (estate):
Author of the international bestseller, THE GODFATHER, Mario Puzo’s other works include: THE SICILIAN, THE FAMILY, THE FOURTH K, FOOLS DIE, THE LAST DON, THE DARK ARENA, and THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM. Puzo’s titles have been translated all over the world and adapted into the wildly popular film series: The Godfather. In addition, Mark Winegardner continued the Godfather legacy with his recent titles THE GODFATHER RETURNS and THE GODFATHER’S REVENGE.

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Ed Falco, ST. JOHN OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS
A stunning and layered novel about the effects of violence, both personal and cultural, on its characters’ lives. When Avery, a college student, meets a performance artist named Grant, she leaves school to follow him to Brooklyn and pursue life as an artist. Worried about Avery, her mother, aunt, and uncle travel to New York to see Avery, where they face a crisis of their own. And Grant is hiding secrets of his own, secrets which come to an extraordinary and explosive head. Once again, Edward Falco proves that he is a master of urgency and suspense, of events careening out of control, as he brilliantly explores the choices we make—those that threaten, and those that save us.


US & Canada: Unbridled
Available format:
Galley
Foreign: Donadio & Olson
Audio:
Unbridled
Primary agent: Neil Olson
First Serial:
Donadio & Olson


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Dan Epstein, LINCOLN’S MEN: The President and His Private Secretaries
The first narrative portrait of the three young men who served as Lincoln’s secretaries during the Civil War. John Nicolay and John Hay lived in the White House, across the hall from the president’s office, and they and William Stoddard spent more time with Lincoln than anyone else outside his immediate family. “The freshest perspective on [Lincoln’s] well-documented life…”—The Chicago Tribune


US & Canada: Simthsonian Books
Available format:
Book
Foreign: Donadio & Olson
Primary Agent: Neil Olson
Audio and First Serial: Donadio & Olson


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Daniel Mark Epstein, THE LINCOLNS: PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE:
In this stunningly original work, prize-winning author and Lincoln expert, Daniel Mark Epstein, gives close attention to the couple’s formative years in Springfield, Illinois: their shared joys and sorrows as parents of four boys; their burning ambitions. Lincoln achieved celebrity status and at last was elected president. But Epstein also captures the glory and pathos of the White House years: the grandeur of Inaugural Balls and State dinners, Mrs. Lincoln’s social triumphs and failures; the growing distance as Lincoln worked night and day while his wife increasingly became embroiled in scandal. Epstein’s portrait of the Lincoln marriage conveys the full force of the Lincolns’ joint ambition, tremendous success, and tragic loss, from the first act to the last.


US & Canada: Ballantine Pub
Available format:
Book
Foreign: Donadio & Olson
Primary Agent: Neil Olson
Audio: BBC Audio

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Rick DeMarinis, MAMA’S BOY
MAMA’S BOY marks a return in style and sensibility to Demarinis’ classic THE YEAR OF THE ZINC PENNY. In 1950s rural America, Airman Gus Reppo goes to great lengths to escape the suffocating love of his unraveling mother, while romancing the only Marxist in Milk River, Montana, and trying to discover the identity of his true father. Conventional, nostalgic storytelling is brilliantly subverted by buried secrets, sexual obsessions and surreal dreams. The atmosphere is drenched in the social and political paranoia upheaval of the time.


US & Canada: Seven Stories
Available format:
manuscript
Foreign: Donadio & Olson
Primary Agent:
Neil Olson
Audio: Donadio & Olson

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Recent Deals (Foreign Rights Controlled by the Publisher)


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Chris Bram, EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA
A cultural history of the interconnected lives of America’s major post-World War II gay writers, whose works, loves, lives and feuds have attained legendary status. Chris Bram captures the essence of an important shift in Twentieth Century American letters with the rise fo a gay consciousness, from the first wave of gay literary figures such as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg, to subsequent generations of writers such as Larry Kramer, Edmund White, Mark Doty and Tony Kushner.


UK: Donadio & Olson.
World: Twelve/Grand Central.
First Serial:
Donadio & Olson.
Primary Agent:
Edward Hibbert.

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Nelson Algren, ENTRAPMENT AND OTHER WORKS:
The previously uncollected works of Nelson Algren, the first National Book Award winning author of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, which the New York Times called “Powerful, grisly, antic, horrifying, poetic, compassionate…virtually nothing more that one could ask.” Nelson Algren is the author of an impressive body of work, including NEVER COME MORNING, A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, THE NEON WILDERNESS, and THE DEVIL’S STOCKING.


World: Seven Stories.
Available Format: Book.
Primary Agent:
Neil Olson


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Leon Bing, SWANS AND PISTOLS: MODELING, MOTHERHOOD, AND MAKING IT IN THE ME DECADE:
Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Léon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model to her sisterly relationship with Mama Cass Elliot and ultimate reinvention as the author of the bestselling gang exposé, Do or Die, Swans and Pistols details Bing’s always exciting and sometimes dangerous life. In a series of riveting stories of unconventionality, Bing wrestles with the themes of mothers, daughters, and reinvention—a concept inseparable from the experience of her early adult life in the 1960s and the city she called home.


World: Bloomsbury USA.
Available format:
Manuscript.
Primary Agent:
Neil Olson.


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McKay Jenkins, A DEVIL’S BARGAIN: LIVING IN, AND SURVIVING IN, A TOXIC WORLD:
In every room of our houses, in every action we take, from bathing to getting dressed to eating and drinking to working in our offices to messing around in our gardens, everywhere we look there are toxic chemicals. This book will explore the vast exposure we all have to toxic chemicals in our routine, domestic lives.


World: Random House.
Available format:
Proposal.
Primary Agent:
Neil Olson.

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Wes Davis, THE ARIADNE OBJECTIVE:
The men who joined British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II were a breed apart. More often scholars than soldiers, their linguistic skills and ability to live in isolation qualified them for the most dangerous work of the war. Patrick Leigh Fermor and his friend William Stanley Moss dreamed up an audacious plan one night: to capture the General commanding the land forces on Crete and spirit him off the island. Things did not go as planned, but with the help of Cretan partisans—who gave the Germans a harder time than any guerilla group during the war—Moss and Fermor pulled off the operation and struck a blow against German morale in the months before D-Day. In The Ariadne Objective, Wes Davis will recount the genesis and execution of this plan against the backdrop of the furious battle for Crete and brutal German Occupation, utilizing a brilliant cast of colorful characters—British, Greek, German and American.


World: Random House.
Available format:
Proposal.
Primary Agent:
Neil Olson.

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