Here are some of the books I’ve edited. For a full list of my acquisitions, please consult Publishers Marketplace.

2025 & 2026

Published titles

Here are a few exciting acquisitions of mine that are in progress.

The First Girl in Hell by Henry Hoke

From Henry Hoke, PEN/Faulkner and Barnes & Noble Discover Prize finalist for Open Throat, a Western set in 1940, narrated by an infamous actress whose career has been torpedoed by the Hays Code as she embarks on a drunken quest for revenge and to rescue the woman she love.

Regional Theater by Thomas Grattan

From Thomas Grattan, PEN/Hemingway Award, LA Times Seidenbaum Award, and Joyce Carol Oates Prize nominee and author of The Recent East and In Tongues, a decades-spanning, polyphonic novel following the cast and crew of a fictional theater production, beginning when the musical's early 1990s Saratoga Springs debut is derailed by its main star snapping a tendon in her foot, and progressing through the AIDS crisis and into 2010s New York as the musical is revived and as its main players orbit, obsess over, and reconnect with one another.

The Life of the Party by hannah baer

From clinical psychologist, contributor to n+1 and Artforum, and author of the memoir Trans Girl Suicide Museum, a treatise on and a loving ode to throwing parties, blending instructions, memoir, and cultural history, and ultimately making a case for how gathering together can radically reconfigure our relationships to the world and to each other

Fear of a Female Genius by Lindsay Zoladz

From Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times critic and cultural critic, a feminist history of the idea of artistic genius and a critical journey through the lives and work of many female artists, writers, and musicians who transformed male-dominated fields, including Joni Mitchell, Yoko Ono, Elaine May, Hilma af Klint, and Mary Shelley, as well as several previously unsung female artists, all of whom inspire and argument for a new and more expansive understanding of genius itself.

How to Live by Lucy Jakub

From former editor at the New York Review of Books, an exploration of the life and work of the renowned animation director, Studio Ghibli cofounder, and cultural icon Hayao Miyazaki, weaving together history, criticism, and philosophy to provide a new understanding of Miyazaki's beloved films and the lessons they hold for children and adults alike.

Play the Tape by Rembert Browne

From Rembert Browne, former writer-at-large at New York magazine and staff writer at Grantland, a cultural history tracing the last 20 years of the American experiment—from Black culture and domestic politics to an Internet that suddenly made everything possible—alongside a generation's coming-of-age and the author's own stories of success, setback, and survival, to interrogate how we got to this unprecedented point, so the past can inform our future.

Weird Era by Ryan Schreiber

From Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork, a chronicle charting the site's improbable journey from early internet bedroom blog to the world's most influential music publication, while also telling the story of the music and generation of listeners Pitchfork launched along the way.

Give Me Some Credit by Michael Waters

From Michael Waters, author of The Other Olympians and contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, a history of credit in America, from the shadowy origins of the modern credit bureau to the rich history of American social movements fighting against the system, in the process illuminating issues of socioeconomic, gender, and racial inequality in the modern economy.

Caring at the End of the World by Xiaowei Wang

From Xiaowei Wang, author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and 2023 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award winner, a chronicle of the entanglement of technology and care in America—in particular the way in which quick-fix technology has transformed our beliefs about what it means to be healthy, and how to care for ourselves and our communities.

Here are some book-related chats.

 

Barnes & Noble’s Poured Over podcast: An interview with Miwa Messer, host of the podcast, alongside Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat (June 2023)

Gagosian magazine: A profile in Gagosian alongside some amazing editors (summer 2022).

St. Henri Books podcast Weird Era: A discussion about publishing and my career (July 2022).

Vogue: An interview with Vogue about the state of queer publishing (June 2022).

Lehman College, CUNY: A talk with Lehman College’s Writing Queer Literature course (February 2022).

FSG x LitHub podcast Well-Versed: In conversation with Eric Cervini, author of The Deviant’s War, and Mark Gevisser, author of The Pink Line, about queer rights, past and present (June 2020).

FSG x LitHub podcast Well-Versed: In conversation with Thomas Grattan, author of The Recent East, about the genesis of his debut novel (February 2021).