Press Release: Deals Done
Sarah Manguso To Granta
Posted at 5:28PM Wednesday 17 Mar 2010
UK rights to The Two Kinds of Decay and The Guardians, two memoirs by the American poet and writer, Sarah Manguso, to Michal Shavit at Granta, in a deal with PJ Mark at Janklow & Nesbitt. The Two Kinds of Decay – a memoir of the autoimmune disease that tore through the author's twenties – was named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Granta will publish in Spring 2011. Her next book, The Guardians, which Granta will publish in 2012, will be a memoir about a period in 2008 when one of Manguso's closest friends eloped from a New York City psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. Manguso will write about their relationship and this time, and, as she did brilliantly in her first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, will continue her exploration of illness, suffering, and how time's relentless momentum prevents total recovery from grief.Manguso's poetry has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Pushcart Prize annual, and three volumes of the Best American Poetry series; her prose has appeared in Conjunctions, McSweeney's, and the New York Times Magazine; her criticism is forthcoming in the Believer, Bookforum, and the New York Review of Books. Honors for her writing include a Hodder Fellowship and the Rome Prize. She has served on the faculty of the graduate writing programs at Columbia and the New School.
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