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 & Nesbit’s Tina Bennett represented the book, called Among the Suitors: Single Women I Have Loved. It develops a Read More
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 parenting memoir.
The book, which generated heated interest in the days leading up to its sale, sold at auction to Ann Godoff of Read More
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 Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers. The prevailing bidder on the book was Knopf, where it will be edited by Jordan Pavlin. According to Ms. Pavlin, the project came out of Read More
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 literary agent Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit, said his book will tell the story of Houdini’s campaign to discredit Read More
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 & Schuster. The acquiring editor was Alexis Garagliano.
Ms. Rakoff confirmed the deal, which was brokered by literary agent Tina Bennett of Janklow Read More
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.
The novel, Ms. Rakoff’s first, is said to be a contemporary take on Mary McCarthy’s The Group, which follows eight Vassar girls as Read More
