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Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’

A sad day for all of us. But proud to have known him and be an agent at the firm he built. His legacy in the literary world is unparalleled.

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I picked by Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen as my holiday read. It is by far one of the best works of political satire fiction I’ve read in a long while. I didn’t know just how much I needed this. And can’t believe it took me so long to discover Hiaasen.

Very happy for my brilliant author, Professor Levine of Stanford, for landing her first trade book on the untold intertwined history of academic freedom and political free speech with Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette.

Proud to represent Brian Albrecht’s first book, which sold to @stripepress.bsky.social! Will reveal the story and hidden forces behind prices we encounter every day. Brian is the perfect economist to write this book, and you should follow his popular substack, Economic Forces.

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

If anyone needed reminding of the importance of books, know that the LLMs that have rapidly become commonplace among so many have used books as part of their predictive persuasion. Nearly all ideas, good or bad, probably came from a writer.

A book I have been waiting for - and all the reviews make me quite thrilled to begin reading it.

If you’re an expert or reporter, I’m a nonfiction agent at Borchardt who focuses on ideas and stories that matter, whether it’s a big idea, history, psychology, science, economics, social issue reporting, or exceptional literary or creative nonfiction. Get in touch!

I like this idea. One recent one I heard which makes me think “what if” is that Toni Morrison began work on her memoir, but passed before it finished.

Terrific book. A new way to think about an issue I thought I had a good handle on. Essential reading from @jgienapp.bsky.social

Hoping to finish by the end of the year my book subtitled "How America Got This Way." To be published by Little, Brown.

You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

I'm looking forward to reading this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

What’s Happening to Reading? For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

Lots to ponder in this piece. What’s Happening to Reading? www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

I think you should ask the Atlantic to brand a section for you called, The Grahammys

I am late in seeing this!!

Agree. From Borchardt client Arlie Hoschild, who has written incredible accounts of this era were in, from Strangers in Our Land and, most recently, Stolen Pride.

Edmund White, Novelist and Pioneer of Gay Literature, Dies at 85

Sad to see this. When I first moved to NYC, I wanted to read books about the city, and White’s City Boy was a revelation. A loss for American letters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...

Excited what’s in store for you, Thomas!

Historians, if you’re doing important work and interested in trade publishing, please get in touch. It is an area I love, and am always looking to represent in, especially in the areas the discipline has historically ignored!

Can’t wait to get a copy of this!

Very proud of these two, both of whom won Pulitzers as part of their teams at the Washington Post and WSJ, respectively. It was an honor to publish their first books!

The blitz of news, coming hourly, in all directions, latched to social media’s ability to transmit thought instantly has made the “thinking slow” aspect of proper judgement - per Kahneman - pretty tough.

Can’t wait to pick up Cassidy’s new book.

Very excited by @leahlitman.bsky.social’s book! I had the small benefit of talking to her about it when I was an editor, and I was already a fan. Now its timing is, sadly, impeccable, but vibes is a pretty good summation of what we’re witnessing. Ordered.

Can’t wait to read, Tim. Been excited by this from the first time I heard you were embarking on this. Congrats!

An incredible group of scholars! Eager to follow along, and see what you all decide to publish.

Mario Vargas Llosa: An Appreciation The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.

Sad news. Years ago I worked on the paperback editions of his work in English, and though his reputation whipsawed in recent years, reading his work and being part of it in a small way was special. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

30 Years Ago, This Book Saw the Coming Backlash Against Elites Christopher Lasch’s “The Revolt of the Elites” anticipated the resentments of ordinary Americans that have led inexorably to Trumpism.

Been revisiting Lasch, when I can, to help read between the news. This piece does a good job of synthesizing his prescience—as well as showing that some features of the moment are not new, just repackaged. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

Review | These short-short stories don’t leave you much time to catch your breath “Thrilled to Death” is a selection of Lynne Tillman’s fiction from the 1980s to the present day.

Terrific review and appraisal of Lynne Tillman and her new book of stories, by Jess Row: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

History in Open Air | Nell Irvin Painter, Sam Needleman Since the end of the last century, Nell Irvin Painter writes in her essay “‘This Land Is Yours,’” published in our March 27 issue, historians of many

An interview with historian Nell Painter. Informative, incisive, and most of all, not irritating, like the news out of Washington. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...