32 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ MARCH 2, 2020
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Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us
About the Science of Healthy Eating
by David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson
U.S. publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Apr.
This scientific adventure looks at how different organisms
know how to balance their diets, and what advice humans can
glean from that info, culminating in a unifying theory of
nutrition.We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julie Heaberlin
U.S. publisher: Ballantine, Aug.
The Black-Eyed Susans author’s novel is about the discovery of
an abandoned girl who may hold the keys to the shocking
truth of a man’s disappearance a decade earlier.Janklow & Nesbit Associates
The Myth of Freedom
by Maggie Nelson
U.S. publisher: Graywolf, fall 2021
Nelson’s first new project since 2015’s
The Argonauts is a work of criticism
that examines the concept of freedom
through the lenses of art, climate,
drugs, and sex.Our American Friend
by Anna Pitoniak
U.S. publisher: Simon & Schuster,
2021
Pitoniak’s novel, part Cold War–era
spy thriller and part reimagining of a
first lady’s life, is an examination of
truth and justice, love and grief, and
how one determines a life worth
living.The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
U.S. publisher: Putnam, Jan. 2021
This debut, which sold in a 10-way
auction, is a tale of forbidden love
between two enslaved young men on a
plantation in the Antebellum South.Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency
A Deal with the Devil by Pamela Colloff
U.S. publisher: Random House, no pub date yet
New York Times Magazine and ProPublica writer Colloff’s first
book tells the story of Paul Skalnik, whom the author says
was an especially prodigious and unreliable jailhouse infor-
mant, focusing on his many victims and seeking to expose the
damage to the American criminal justice system created by
police and prosecutors’ use of such informants.The God Equation: The Unfinished Quest for a
Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
U.S. publisher: Doubleday, spring 2021
Kaku, a theoretical physicist and the author of The Future of
the Mind, begins this book with Einstein’s unfinished
project—creating a unified theory of the universe—and
strives to explain in an accessible way how far physicists have
come toward completing that work, and what mysteries
remain to be solved.The Grifters’ Club by Sarah Blaskey et al.
U.S. publisher: Public Affairs, June
A team of Miami Herald journalists look inside the gilded
gates of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s palatial resort in
Florida.Levine Greenberg Rostan
Literary Agency
Good for a Girl: A Life Running in a Man’s World
by Lauren Fleshman
U.S. publisher: no publisher yet
Fleshman, a former track and field athlete, has written a
#MeToo memoir and manifesto about women and sports.Off: The Day the Internet Died (A Bedtime Fantasy)
by Chris Colin and Rinee Shah
U.S. publisher: Prestel, spring 2021
In the tradition of Go the F**k to Sleep, Off presents an event
everyone secretly—or perhaps not so secretly—dreams of: the
internet shutting off once and for all.This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Record
Producer-Turned-Brain Scientist Explores Why
We Fall in Love with Music by Susan Rogers
and Ogi Ogas
U.S. publisher: Norton, fall 2022
Rogers, a brain scientist and producer for Prince and others,
teams up with Ogas, a computational neuroscientist, to go
beyond the familiar concepts of scales, key signatures, and
chord progressions to explore a set of overlooked and under-
appreciated aspects of music.Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents
Afterparties and Straight Thru
Cambotown by Anthony Veasna So
U.S. publisher: Ecco, summer 2021
Sold alongside one another, two debuts,
Afterparties (a story collection) and
Straight Thru Cambotown (a novel) are
seriocomic fiction that shine a light on
the traumas of the Khmer Rouge
genocide.Maggie NelsonAnna PitoniakRobert Jones Jr.Anthony Veasna So© tom atwood© andrew bartholomew