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Joanna Smith Rakoff Close to a Deal On Debut Novel Brooklyn
A novel called Brooklyn, by poet and freelance magazine journalist Joanna Smith Rakoff, will soon have a publisher, according to literary agent Tina Bennett, who is representing the book at auction....
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Scribner Will Publish Joanna Smith Rakoff’s Debut Novel Brooklyn
Poet and freelance magazine journalist Joanna Smith Rakoff has sold her debut novel–said to be similar in spirit and subject matter to Mary McCarthy’s The Group– to Scribner, an imprint of Simon &...
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Book on Harry Houdini Sold to Crown, Advance in the High Six Figures
Crown has acquired a non-fiction book by screenwriter David Jehar about the magician Harry Houdini, for an advance that Mr. Jehar said was in the “high six figures.” Mr. Jehar, who was represented by...
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Monkey See, Monkey You
Last week, Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit sold a book called Zoobiquity, about heretofore unrecognized similarities between animal and human pathologies, by UCLA cardiologist Barbara...
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Penguin Nabs Pricey Mothering Memoir
Yale Law professor Amy Chua’s first two books–World on Fire and Day of Empire–concerned international policy. Her third, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, will take a turn for the domestic: it’s a...
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‘All the Single Ladies’ Author Kate Bolick Lands High Six-Figure Book Deal
Kate Bolick’s November Atlantic cover story, All the Single Ladies, will be extended into a book that was bought by Crown’s Molly Stern at auction last week, Publisher’s Marketplace reports. Janklow...
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