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KNOPF SPRING 2023
The Shards
A novel
Bret Easton Ellis
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and
American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends
as a serial killer strikes across the city.
Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of
innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a
vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting
teenagers throughout the city.
Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school
when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright,
handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even
as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is
equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a
serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his
friends, taunting them—and Bret in particular—with grotesque threats and
horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they
are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for
constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him
ON SALE 1/17/2023 one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his
KNOPF friends—or his own mind—to make sense of the danger they appear to be in?
HARDCOVER Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy
fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the
978-0-593-53560-8 Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.
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Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero
Category: Fiction L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the
BISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at
BISAC 2: Fiction - Psychological seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly,
BISAC 3: Fiction - Coming Of Age suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his
Page Count: 608 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inimitable best.
Spine/Depth: 50/32 Carton Count: 12 THE SHARDS: is Ellis's first novel in twelve years, a work of spellbinding narrative
power—a major literary event.
Marketing and Publicity 567K TWITTER FOLLOWERS: Ellis has a huge presence on social media and his
Publicist: Emily Reardon influence across multiple platforms will be of tremendous use at publication.
Marketing Contact: Kelsey Manning SALES TRACK: With sales approaching 2 million copies across all formats, Ellis has
National Media Appearances, including assumed an essential place in the pantheon of contemporary American literature, and
NPR The Shards is his finest work in years.
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BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of six novels, a collection of essays, and a collection of
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Quiet
Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of
“quiet” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.
How does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is
quiet when it isn’t silence? Where does quiet exist—and what liberating
potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority,
intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a
metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and
the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the
impulse to guard one’s inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde
writes, "your silence will not protect you."
NEW VOICE: Bulley is a young writer on the rise with ample room to grow. Her debut
pamphlet, Girl B, was published as part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets
series. She has been widely published, including in the London Review of Books, The
Poetry Review, and Chicago Review. She also directs an intergenerational poetry
project in which she films Black poets and their mothers translating their works into
their families' native tongues.
AWARDS: Bulley was awarded a Techne scholarship for fully funded doctoral research
ON SALE 1/31/2023 at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2019. In 2018, she was the recipient of the
KNOPF Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award for promising UK poets under thirty. She has
HARDCOVER held two international residencies. Quiet has been selected as a Poetry Book Society’s
Summer Recommendation.
978-0-593-53564-6 INTERNATIONAL: The author is based in the UK. Quiet was first published by Faber in
$28.00/$37.99 Spring 2022 to high critical acclaim.
BREAKTHROUGH: Bulley’s array of forms, her dexterous creation of internal spaces,
Category: Poetry her ability to slide between registers, is dazzling, warm, and inclusive. As a reader
BISAC 1: Poetry - General encountering her work you are not on the outside looking in, but pressed right up
BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors against the lip of experience.
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Welsh "In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in
Page Count: 112 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 8 these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly
Spine/Depth: 18/32 Carton Count: 12 evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be
Illustrations: 1 ILLUSTRATION IN TEXT felt for a long time to come." —Kayo Chingonyi, author of Kumukanda
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Publicist: Josefine Kals VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, a writer, and an artist. An alumna of the Barbican
Marketing Contact: Matthew Sciarappa Young Poets and recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, she has held residencies in the
National Media Appearances, including United States and Brazil, and in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is the
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Acting Naturally
The Magic in Great Performances
David Thomson
From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of
Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they
approach their craft
Meryl Streep, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan. When we
watch these remarkable actors in a performance, we see only Sophie, Stanley
Kowalski, Hannibal Lecter, or Cassie from Promising Young Woman. How are
they able to transform our world in this way? How and why do they do what
they do? In Acting Naturally, David Thomson sheds light on the actors who
have shaped the film industry. He shrewdly analyzes these stars—among them,
James Dean, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Louise Brooks, Riz Ahmed, Sir
Laurence Olivier, Viola Davis, and Jean Seberg—revealing how a sly smile, an
extra-long pause, even a small gesture of the hand can draw in an audience.
And he takes us behind the scenes to examine casting and all the other
moments leading up to “Action!” Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the
insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the
real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives.
This book is not only necessary reading for an insider’s view of the industry but
also a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living.
ON SALE 2/7/2023 CREDENTIALS: Thomson has been called “the greatest living film critic and historian”
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The Guardian, and countless other publications.
DEVOTED FOLLOWING: Through all his books and journalism, Thomson has built a
978-0-593-31929-1 base of loyal followers composed of film buffs, students, scholars, and critics.
$30.00/$41.00 SALES: The Whole Equation was a New York Times best seller. The Biographical
Dictionary , in all editions, exceeds 90k copies in print. The KDPG editions of all of
Category: Performing Arts Thomson’s books have netted more than 200k copies.
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BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Film - General “David Thomson is, without doubt, the greatest living film historian, archivist, and
BISAC 3: Performing Arts - Acting & Auditioning professional fan . . . His passion is often infectious.” —Los Angeles Times
Page Count: 288 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12 “You read Thomson for contact with an urbane and provocative intelligence.” —The
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Marketing and Publicity “Unfussy and debonair, his cool common-sensibility blending seamlessly with a dynamic
eccentricity, David Thomson writes like the world’s most literary film critic.” —NPR
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National Media Appearances, including Author Residence: San Francisco, CA Author Hometown: London, UK
NPR DAVID THOMSON is the author of more than twenty-five books, including How to Watch a
National Review Attention Movie, The Whole Equation, and biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick.
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Dinner with the President
Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Alex Prud'homme
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the
grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump’s
fast-food burgers and Biden’s ice cream—what they ate, why they ate it, and what it
tells us about the state of the nation—from the coauthor of Julia Child’s best-selling
memoir My Life in France
The American presidents have been hosts to some of the most significant
moments in our history over meals at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And during
such occasions, our commanders-in-chief have understood the value of
breaking bread with both friends and foes—Thomas Jefferson’s nation-building
receptions in the new capital Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant’s state dinner
for the king of Hawaii; Booker T. Washington’s groundbreaking supper with
Teddy Roosevelt; Richard Nixon’s practiced use of chopsticks to pry open
China; Jimmy Carter’s détente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.
Here, Alex Prud’homme invites readers into the White House kitchen to
reveal the sometimes curious tastes of twenty-six of America’s most influential
presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways in
which their food policies affected people around the world. As each president
grew into his distinguished role, his personal tastes evolved White House
ON SALE 2/7/2023 menus over time—from simple eggs and black coffee for Abraham Lincoln
KNOPF during the Civil War and celebratory turtle soup after, to squirrel stew for
HARDCOVER Dwight Eisenhower, jelly beans and enchiladas for Ronald Reagan, and arugula
for Barack Obama. What our leaders say about food touches on everything
978-1-5247-3221-9 from our nation’s shifting diet and local politics to global trade, science,
$35.00/$48.00 religion, war, class, gender, race, and so much more.
Category: Cooking Prud’homme also pulls back the curtain on overlooked figures like George
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Heads Of State pioneering First Ladies, such as Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy, who used
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Page Count: 512 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 food and entertaining to build political and social relationships. As he weaves
Carton Count: 12 these stories together, Prud’homme reveals that food is not just fuel when it is
Illustrations: 28 ILL IN TEXT; 16PP 4C PHOTOS served to the most powerful people in the world. It is a tool of communication,
a lever of power and persuasion, a form of entertainment, and a symbol of the
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Publicist: Sarah New
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle Included are ten authentic recipes for favorite presidential dishes, such as:
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National Review Attention Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Reverse Martini
Food Media Coverage Lady Bird Johnson’s Pedernales River Chili
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Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY Author Hometown: New York City
Early Reader Review Campaign ALEX PRUD’HOMME is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York
Knopf Cooks Newsletter Features Times , The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the coauthor of Julia Child's memoir,
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The Reopening of the Western Mind
The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the
Dawn of the Enlightenment
Charles Freeman
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of
Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing the arc of
intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era. With more
than 140 illustrations; 90 in full-color.
Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the
Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times [London]), explores the rebirth of
Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era.
As the dominance of Christian teachings gradually subsided over time, a new
open-mindedness made way for the ideas of morality and theology, and fueled
and formed the backbone of the Western mind of the late Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, and beyond.
In this wide-ranging history, Freeman follows the immense intellectual
development that culminated in the Enlightenment, from political ideology to
philosophy and theology, as well as the fine arts and literature. He writes, in
vivid detail, of how Europeans progressed from the Christian-minded thinking
of Saint Augustine to the more open-minded later scholars, such as Michel de
Montaigne, leading to a broader, more “humanist” way of thinking.
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conceptions of humanity, religion, and science; how the rise of Protestantism
and the Reformation profoundly influenced the tenor of politics and legal
978-0-525-65936-5 systems, with enormous repercussions; and how the radical Christianity of
$50.00/$66.00 philosophers such as Spinoza affected a rethinking of the concept of religious
tolerance that has influenced the modern era ever since.
Category: History AN ENTHRALLING JOURNEY TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD WE LIVE
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BISAC 2: History - Civilization BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MIND (Knopf, 2003).
BISAC 3: History - Social History “Engaging . . . Refreshing . . . memorable.” (The Times Literary Supplement); “An
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Spine/Depth: 58/32 Carton Count: 6 A MAJOR WORK OF HISTORY: “A work of serious scholarship by an author who has
Illustrations: 145 4C & B/W ILL IN TEXT clearly been everywhere, seen everything and read voraciously. Written with great
élan and, given its scope, undertaken with considerable courage . . . an extraordinary
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Author Residence: Suffolk, UK
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CHARLES FREEMAN is an academic historian and the author of eight previous books. In
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A Spell of Good Things
A novel
Ayobami Adebayo
A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth,
power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of
Stay with Me • "A stunning debut novel ... in the lineage of great works by Chinua
Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has
lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor,
collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future.
Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an
exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle,
the volatile son of an ascendant politician.
When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence
shatters a family party, Wuraola's and Eniola’s lives become intertwined. In her
breathtaking second novel, Ayọ̀ b ámi Adébáyọ̀ shines her light on Nigeria, on
the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared
humanity that lives in between.
STAY WITH ME: Adébáyọ̀ ' s debut was a New York Times Notable Book, shortlisted for
the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize, longlisted for
ON SALE 2/7/2023 the International Dylan Thomas Prize, a Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club Selection, a
KNOPF Belletrist Book of the Month, a 2017 BEA Buzz Panel Selection, and named one of the
HARDCOVER Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Chicago
Tribune, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, t h e New York Post, Southern Living, and The
Skimm.
978-0-525-65764-4 A CAREER-BUILDING NOVEL: In the same way that Adébáyọ̀ ' s former teacher,
$28.00/$37.99 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, followed her celebrated debut with the more sprawling
and ambitious Half of a Yellow Sun, Adébáyọ̀ has done the same, taking the passion,
Category: Fiction longing, wit, and keen sense of culture that defined her debut and moving to a larger
BISAC 1: Fiction - Women canvas to tell a story that is expansive and global.
BISAC 2: Fiction - World Literature - Africa - Nigeria SALES: With 100k copies sold of Stay with Me, we have a fabulous running start as we
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life - General position this even bigger, even more exciting novel from a young literary star.
Page Count: 352 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, UK Author Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
Marketing and Publicity AYỌ̀ B ÁMI ADÉBÁYỌ̀ was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut novel, Stay with Me, won the
9mobile Prize for Literature, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the
Publicist: Sarah New Wellcome Book Prize, and the Kwani? Manuscript Prize. It has been translated into
Marketing Contact: Emily Murphy twenty languages and the French translation was awarded the Prix Les
National Media Appearances, including Afriques. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin
NPR Literary Award, Stay with Me was a New York Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune, and NPR
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Up With the Sun
A novel
Thomas Mallon
Through the curious life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously
charming actor, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar
showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are thrown into stark relief.
Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor in the fifties and sixties—until he
wasn’t. A costar on Broadway, a member of Lucille Ball’s historic Desilu
workshop, and finally a primetime TV actor, Dick had hustled to get his big
break. But just as soon as his star began to rise, his roles began to dry up and
he faded from the spotlight, his name out of tabloids and newspapers until his
sensational murder in 1980.
Through the eyes of his occasional pianist and longtime acquaintance Matt
Liannetto, a tenderhearted but wry observer often on the fringes of Broadway’s
big moments, Kallman’s life and death come into appallingly sharp focus. The
actor’s yearslong, unrequited love for a fellow performer brings out a
competitive, vindictive edge in him. Whenever a new door opens, Kallman
rushes unwittingly to close it. Even as he walks over other people, he can
never get out of his own way.
ON SALE 2/7/2023 As Matt pores over the life of this handsome could-have-been, Up With the
KNOPF Sun re-creates the brassy, sometimes brutal world that shaped Kallman,
HARDCOVER capturing his collisions with not only Lucille Ball, but an array of stars from
Sophie Tucker to Judy Garland and Johnny Carson. Part crime story, part
showbiz history, and part love story, this is a crackling novel about personal
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demons and dangerously suppressed passions that spans thirty years of gay
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life—the whole tumultuous era from the Kinsey Report through Stonewall and,
Category: Fiction finally, AIDS.
BELOVED AUTHOR: Thomas Mallon is an established figure in the literary
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community. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, is a frequent contributor
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and was once the literary editor of GQ. Mallon's appeal is universal and his industry
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contacts are impeccable.
Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12
A RETURN TO HOME TURF: Mallon's works have been well received by critics and
Illustrations: 22 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
fans alike, but none have resonated with fans more than 2007's Fellow Travelers,
which became the basis for a popular opera that is widely performed today. Hawkins
Marketing and Publicity Fuller, protagonist from Fellow Travelers, makes a cameo in this book, which has set
Publicist: Sarah Nisbet itself up nicely to capture much of that same, enthusiastic audience.
Marketing Contact: Matthew Sciarappa GLOWING PRAISE: Mallon is no stranger to critical success. He has been referred to
National Review Attention as “one of the most interesting American novelists at work” (John Updike in The New
LGBTQIA+ Media Coverage Yorker) and "the 21st century's Anthony Trollope" (Kirkus Reviews), and his work has
Literary Media Coverage been referred to as "some of the most lucid prose in contemporary American
Theater/Hollywood/NYC Media literature" L( os Angeles Times) and even "entertainingly bitchy" (The New York Times
Coverage Book Review).
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On the Savage Side
A novel
Tiffany McDaniel
Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved
murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters,
both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author
of Betty.
Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red
hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their
grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and
forge a world all their own.
But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that
haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the
sisters cling tightly to one another. Years later, Arcade wrestles with the
memories of her early life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the
river. Soon, more bodies are found. As her friends disappear around her,
Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer. Arcade’s
promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate
and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive.
ON SALE 2/14/2023 Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed
KNOPF novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and
HARDCOVER fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.
THE ETHICS OF TRUE CRIME: McDaniel writes, “When a woman disappears, how is
she remembered? By her beautiful smile? Her pretty face? The drugs in her system?
978-0-593-32070-9 Or by the johns who all have dope breath and graceless desires?” As more and more
$29.00/$39.00 documentaries, podcasts, and books cover graphic true crime stories, this novel asks
timely questions about what our omnipresent interest in dead girls says about us, and
Category: Fiction which women get the justice they deserve.
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary AUTHOR: This is a book that McDaniel was born to write. An Ohio native inspired by
BISAC 2: Fiction - Crime her personal experiences, McDaniel brings modern rural America to the fore with
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life - Siblings nuance and immediacy.
Page Count: 464 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 OHIO GOTHIC: From the first page of this novel, McDaniel sets the stakes high—the
Carton Count: 12 twist ending will shock you. The pages fly, but the prose is vivid and gorgeous.
Illustrations: 21 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT McDaniel’s skills as a poet, visual artist, and novelist with a keen sense of plot are on
full display here.
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Knopf published McDaniel’s previous novel, Betty, at the
Marketing and Publicity height of the pandemic, and it was still an international best seller with more than 35k
Publicist: Emily Reardon copies sold in the U.S. and 200k copies sold worldwide. It was longlisted for the
Marketing Contact: Matthew Sciarappa International Dublin Literary Award, won the Prix du Roman Fnac 2020, and was on the
National Media Appearances, including best seller list in France for more than eight weeks. Rights for On the Savage Side
NPR have already been sold in the UK and France, and we expect the same kind of success
Newspaper and Magazine Features with her new novel.
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Most-Anticipated Book Lists Author Residence: Circleville, Ohio Author Hometown: Circleville, Ohio
True Crime Media Coverage TIFFANY McDANIEL is an Ohio native whose writing is inspired by the rolling hills and
Author Events woods of the land she knows. Drawing from her Cherokee heritage, she is a poet, a
novelist, and a visual artist. Her debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything, won
Online Advertising targeting Top the Guardian's Not the Booker award and the Ohioana Reader’s Choice Award. She is the
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Playhouse
A novel
Richard Bausch
From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the novel as well
as the story . . . Effortlessly engaging” —Sven Birkerts, The New York Times), a
sharp, affecting, masterly new novel about a close-knit theater community in
Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear.
As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, life for the
core members of the company seems to be falling into disarray. Their trusted
director has just retired, and theater manager Thaddeus Deerforth—staring
down forty and sensing a rift growing slowly between himself and his wife,
Gina—dreads the arrival of an imperious, inscrutable visiting director.
Claudette, struggling to make ends meet as an actor and destabilized by family
troubles, is getting frequent calls from her ex-boyfriend—and also the
narcissistic, lecherous television actor who has been recruited to play King Lear
in their fall production.
Also invited to the cast is Malcolm Ruark, a disgraced TV anchor muddling
through the fallout of a scandal involving his underaged niece—and suddenly in
an even more precarious situation when the same niece, now eighteen, is cast
to play Cordelia. As tensions onstage and off build toward a breaking point, the
ON SALE 2/14/2023 bonds among the intimately drawn characters are put to extraordinary
KNOPF tests—and the fate of the theater itself may even be on the line.
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Deftly weaving together the points of view of Thaddeus, Claudette, and
978-0-451-49484-9 Malcolm, and utterly original in its incorporation of Shakespeare’s timeless
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art, and redemption—a work of inimitable imaginative prowess by one of our
Category: Fiction most renowned storytellers.
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: Bausch is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for
BISAC 2: Fiction - Classics Excellence in the Short Story, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life - General Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and the
Page Count: 352 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has
Spine/Depth: 39/32 Carton Count: 12 appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Playboy, The Best American Short Stories,
The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Stories, and elsewhere.
NOVEL: With the same emotional force of his previous novels—including the
Marketing and Publicity movie-adapted Peace and, most recently, Before, During, After—Bausch gives us
Publicist: Abigail Endler another powerful drama of violence and love.
Marketing Contact: Morgan Fenton REVIEWS: “A master storyteller who appreciates subtleties most of us can’t see,
National Media Appearances, including much less write.”—The Seattle Times; "Bausch excavates the darkest corners of his
NPR characters' lives without giving in to despair"—The New York Times; “Bausch writes
Newspaper and Magazine Features about things that matter”—Raleigh News and Observer.
National Review Attention BACKLIST: This publication comes with great opportunity for Bausch’s four titles
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Author Events After; Peace; and Something Is Out There).
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Author Backlist Promotions in the Short Story, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers'
E-Newsletter Campaign Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel Peace. He is past chancellor of The Fellowship of
Southern Writers, and his work is widely anthologized, including in Pushcart Prize Stories,
The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South. He is
on the Writing Faculty of Chapman University in Orange, California.
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Chances Are . . . (Ebk)/Russo, Richard/EL 9781101947753 7/19 Vintage $12.99/$13.99A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Stories
Jai Chakrabarti
An immersive, globe-trotting short story collection about families that cross
borders from the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End
of the World (“an impressive debut”—Meg Wolitzer).
In the fourteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai
Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to
cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title story, a
closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover’s wife.
An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural
identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An American
musician travels to see his guru for the final time—and makes a promise he
cannot keep. A young woman from an Indian village arrives in Brooklyn to care
for the toddler of a biracial couple. And a mystical agent is sent by a mother to
solve her son’s domestic problems. Throughout, the characters’ most
vulnerable desires shape life-altering decisions as they seek to balance their
needs against those of the people they hold closest. The stories in A Small
Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness capture men and women struggling with
transformation and familial bonds; they traverse the intersections of countries
and cultures to illuminate what it means to love in uncertain times; and they
ON SALE 2/21/2023 showcase the skill of a storyteller who dazzles with the breadth of his vision.
KNOPF AN AWARD-WINNING NEW VOICE: Chakrabarti won the National Jewish Book
HARDCOVER Award’s Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction for his debut novel, A Play for the End of the
World, which has also been longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award and was
named the Jewish Fiction Award Honor Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries. He
978-0-525-65894-8 is an O. Henry Award-winning author whose fiction has appeared in The Best American
$27.00/$37.00 Short Stories, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly, and Slice. He is the recipient
of a Pushcart Prize and was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space.
Category: Fiction PREVIOUS BOOK: A Play for the End of the World, was published by Knopf in
BISAC 1: Fiction - Short Stories (single author) September 2021 to strong reviews. Meg Wolitzer raves, “Jai Chakrabarti is a lyrical
BISAC 2: Fiction - Asian American writer, and this is an impressive debut,” and The Washington Post says, “Like Jhumpa
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary Lahiri’s The Lowland, Chakrabarti explores his flawed, bewildered characters’
Page Count: 272 Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 fine-grained emotional shifts when confronted with confusing, violent political
Carton Count: 12 movements.”
STORIES: The title story, “A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness,” appeared in
Marketing and Publicity A Public Space, was selected by Meg Wolitzer for The Best American Short Stories
2 0 1 7, and was performed at Selected Shorts at Symphony Space. Other stories have
Publicist: Amy Hagedorn appeared in Slice (“Daisy Lane”), Michigan Quarterly Review (“Searching for Elijah”),
Marketing Contact: Ellen Whitaker The Coffin Factory (“Mendel’s Wall”), The Collagist (“Lost Things”), Symphony Space's
National Media Appearances, including Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories (“Lessons with Father”),
NPR One Story (“A Mother’s Work”), and Conjunctions ("Lilavati's Fire"). The other six
Newspaper and Magazine Features stories in the fourteen-story collection are new.
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Author Events Jai Chakrabarti’s short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and has been
anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories, and has
Influencer Outreach and Social been awarded a Pushcart Prize. His novel, A Play for the End of the World, won the
Promotion National Jewish Book Award’s Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, was named the Jewish
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In The Country/Alvar, Mia/HC 9780385352819 6/15 Knopf $26.95/$32.00We Should Not Be Friends
The Story of a Friendship
Will Schwalbe
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing
college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of
The End of Your Life Book Club
"As funny, warm, brutally honest and entertaining as it is profound.” —Louise
Penny, best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery series
By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met
everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp
lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of
students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who
he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in
packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to
be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril.
All this changed dramatically when Will collided with Chris Maxey, known to
just about everyone as Maxey. Maxey was physically imposing, loud, and a star
wrestler who was determined to become a Navy SEAL (where he would later
serve for six years). Thanks to the strangely liberating circumstances of a
ON SALE 2/21/2023 little-known secret society at Yale, the two forged a bond that would become a
KNOPF mainstay of each other’s lives as they repeatedly lost and found each other
HARDCOVER and themselves in the years after graduation.
978-0-525-65493-3 From New Haven to New York City, from Hong Kong and Panama to a
$29.00/$39.00 remarkable school on an island in the Bahamas—through marriages and a
divorce, triumphs and devastating losses— We Should Not Be Friends tracks an
Category: Family extraordinary friendship over decades of challenge and change. Schwalbe’s
BISAC 1: Family & Relationships - Friendship marvelous new work is, at its heart, a joyful testament to the miracle of human
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Personal connection—and how if we can just get past our preconceptions, we may find
Memoirs some of our greatest friends.
BISAC 3: Family & Relationships - LGBTQ+ NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR: The End of Your Life Book Club spent twelve
Page Count: 336 Trim Size: 5-5/16 x 7-7/8 weeks on the New York Times best seller list as well as landing on the Los Angeles
Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12 Times and USA Today lists, and it went on to sell more than 230k copies across all
formats.
Marketing and Publicity SUBJECT: Here for the first time, Schwalbe is breaking away from the subject of books
and diving instead into a deeply personal memoir about an unlikely but sustaining
Publicist: Erinn Hartman friendship. Vivid, dramatic, and wonderfully engaging new territory.
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle YALE SECRET SOCIETIES: The friendship at the heart of the book originates with an
National Media Appearances, including initiation into a secret society at Yale—always a source of curiosity and intrigue.
NPR AUTHOR: Schwalbe is universally beloved by booksellers and critics—he will be much
Newspaper and Magazine Features in demand and a tireless promoter. He will be joined by his friend Chris Maxey, who
National Review Attention has become a transformational figure in education thanks to his founding of The Island
Most-Anticipated Book Lists School and his work in marine conservation.
Men’s and Women’s Magazine ACCLAIM: "Mr. Schwalbe is not just an avid reader, he is also an advocate, a
Coverage cheerleader, a disciple."—The New York Times; "Completely engaging and difficult to
Original Essays and Opinion Pieces put down . . . deeply inspirational on a personal level to every imaginable reader."—The
Extensive Podcast Outreach Independent; “[This] book is robust with love and laughter.”—Chicago Tribune.
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Author Events Author Residence: New York, NY Author Hometown: New York, NY
Online Advertising WILL SCHWALBE has worked in book publishing (currently as an editor at Macmillan); in
Trade Advertising digital media; and as a journalist, writing for various publications, including The New York
Influencer Outreach and Social Promotion including Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of Books for Living, The End of
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Early Reader Review Campaign Your Life Book Club, and coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send. He lives in New York.
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The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
Jeanna Smialek
A fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood
American institutions—the Federal Reserve.
The marble halls of the Federal Reserve have always held secrets; for
decades the Fed did the utmost to preserve its room to maneuver, operating
behind the scenes as much as possible. Yet over the past two decades, this
elite world of bankers and economists speaking a language that only monetary
experts could understand has been forced to change its ways. Amid rising
inequality, weakening global economic prospects, and a pandemic, the central
bank has entered into a new era of transparency and activism that has
changed its role in modern society in subtle but remarkable ways.
Limitless tells the inside story of this deeply impactful transformation, and
what it means for ordinary Americans. Focusing on characters such as the Fed
chairman Jerome Powell; the Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles; Vice
Chair Lael Brainard; the Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari; and the
long-ago Fed Chair Marriner S. Eccles—and driven by the rising tension
between Main Street and Wall Street—this is a page-turning account of the
modern Fed’s inner workings during a crucial inflection point in history.
DEMYSTIFYING THE FED: Jeanna Smialek knows how to break down complicated
ON SALE 2/28/2023 finance jargon and makes the ins and outs of economic policy accessible and
KNOPF completely compelling. She’s excellent at character portraits and can tell a story, and
HARDCOVER has a refreshing sense of humor.
REAL-WORLD IMPACT: Each chapter starts in a community, bank trading floor, or
978-0-593-32023-5 political meeting, to make it clear that the Fed’s actions have direct consequences for
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DEBUT AUTHOR: Smialek has been the Federal Reserve reporter at The New York
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