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Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes's LANGUISHING, drawing on decades of his research to profile the term he coined, tracing the spread of languishing—the feeling of aimlessness and emptiness—to a level he characterizes as a global epidemic, explaining its role as a gateway to major depression and anxiety disorders, and arguing that our very obsession with happiness can complicate the process of finding it, and that shifting our focus from feeling good to functioning well will lead to flourishing, to Leah Trouwborst at Simon Element, in a major deal, in an exclusive submission, by Albert Lee and Pilar Queen at UTA (NA). This deal subsequently moved with the editor to Crown.
Expert on video game psychology, former instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the cofounder of Healthy Gamer Dr. Alok Kanojia's HOW TO RAISE A HEALTHY GAMER, an evidence-based guide to the problem of addictive gaming for a beleaguered generation of parents—a step-by-step roadmap to helping our children grow into the best versions of themselves, to Marnie Cochran at Rodale, at auction, by Byrd Leavell and Dan Milaschewski at UTA (NA).
New York Magazine senior correspondent Irin Carmon's UNBEARABLE: BEING PREGNANT IN AMERICA, an urgent account of how the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision is dramatically worsening a patchwork system whose injustices have been decades in the making, to Julia Cheiffetz at One Signal, at auction, for publication in spring 2025, by Linda Loewenthal at The Loewenthal Company(world).
Expert on the intersections of science, medicine, and inequality Dr. Joanna Kempner's PSYCHEDELIC OUTLAWS, the story of the Clusterbusters, a group of people united only by crippling head pain, who develop their very own medicine from a homegrown fungus and, improbably, manage to get academics at Harvard and Yale to transform their work into cutting-edge "aboveground" psychedelic research set to revolutionize pain medicine, to Lauren Marino at Hachette Books, at auction, by Bridget Wagner Matzie at Aevitas Creative Management (NA).
Author of RAGE BECOMES HER Soraya Chemaly's AFTER: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA & RESILIENCE IN A COMPLEX WORLD, examining trauma and post-traumatic growth, both personal and institutional, through the lens of history, social science, psychology, and personal narrative, and imagining a future that facilitates recovery and prioritizes economies and cultures of care, pitched as THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE meets FAR FROM THE TREE, to Julia Cheiffetz at One Signal, by Anna Sproul-Latimer and Kent Wolf at Neon Literary (world).
Outside contributor, former Army infantry officer and author of THE PRISONER IN HIS PALACE Will Bardenwerper's THE LAST HOMESTAND: THE TWILIGHT OF BASEBALL IN APPALACHIA, a narrative account of the end of an era of Appalachian League baseball, and the role of the sport in the fabric of life in these small cities, to Jason Kaufman at Doubleday, by Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg Rostan.
