Congratulations to Marya Hornbacher! Madness: A Bipolar Life is in its first week on the New York Times bestseller list. Watch Dalton Conley on The Today Show on May 6. Hear about Nudge: Small Changes, Big Consequences by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein on NPR's Tavis Smiley Show (April 25). Read about it in Time (4/4), Newsweek (4/14), U.S. News and World Report (April 21), John Tierney's New York Times column (March 25), The New Yorker (February 25), BusinessWeek (March 17), and many other publications. Watch David Perlmutter, author of Blogwars: The New Political Battleground, on "The Daily Show" on May 8. Seth Kantner's Shopping for Porcupine is a BookSense pick for June. Read an interview in Newsweek with Alan Kazdin, author of The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child. Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming, appeared on The Jon Stewart Show and received a rave review in the New York Times. Congratulations to Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, on winning the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University and the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association. Liberty of Conscience by Martha Nussbaum is a NewYork Times Book Review editor's choice. Congratulations to Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America •Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography •National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography •Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee •Winner, Unitarian Universalist Association Frederick G. Melcher Book Award Congratulations to Carlo Rotella, author of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights on winning the Whiting Prize, given annually to ten writers of "exceptional talent and promise." David Lindley’s Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science was picked by New York Times critic Janet Maslin as one of the ten books she reviewed “most avidly” this year. Storm World by Chris Mooney is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Read Susan Rabiner on making bestsellers in the New York Times See “The Colbert Report” on “The Most Famous Man in America” Congratulations to Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home •Winner, American Library Association's Stonewall-Israel Fish Nonfiction Book Award •National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Memoir/Autobiography •Best American Comics •Best American Nonrequired Reading (Dave Eggers) The Susan Rabiner Literary Agency was founded in 1997 by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato, a husband-and-wife team who are also the authors of the highly acclaimed handbook for would-be authors, Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get it Published.  "Having worked inside publishing houses for more than twenty years," observes Rabiner, "I had seen many publishable projects fail to get past an editorial board because the author did not know how to frame his or her ideas in such a way that the editorial board saw the book's potential."  In opening their agency, Rabiner and Fortunato decided to be selective in the authors they took on, but to work long and hard with these authors to craft the strongest possible proposal and ultimately the strongest possible book.  Publishers look to the agency for books of serious nonfiction written by public intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. Consequently, the agency looks for authors with top credentials who have a new argument or idea that they would like to bring to the attention of a broader public, and creative writers who can open up new worlds for readers.  As a result, the agency has an extraordinary track record of success in placing books with major commercial houses as well with the top university presses.

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