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Callan Wink has signed a two book deal with Dial Books, with Noah Eaker serving as editor. The deal includes a forthcoming novel, BEARTOOTH, about a pair of brothers who get more than they bargain for during a poaching expedition, and a short story collection.

Pulitzer Prize winner John Matteson’s book The Lives of Margaret Fuller, a biography on the prickly, brilliant, and endlessly complicated intellectual Margaret Fuller, received critical acclaim from The New York Times Book Review, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The L.A.Times, and the Wall Street Journal .

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The Steinberg Agency is pleased to announce Su Meck’s forthcoming memoir about losing her memory and being force to relearn every aspect of her life after a ceiling fan struck her head causing a rare and devastating form of amnesia. The book is being published by Jonathan Karp and Molly Lindley of Simon and Schuster, and is slated for publication in spring 2014. In November, the New York Times Lives Column ran her piece on how education helped her rebuild her life.

Congratulations to Callan Wink – his story, Dog Run Moon, was published in The New Yorker. An interview with Callan, an MFA student at The University of Wyoming, is available here.

Tim Gunn's Kindle Single essay Shaken, Not Stirred, debuted on the top 100 list for Kindle sales at Amazon.com. The personal essay recounts Tim’s tumultuous relationship with his father, and is available for download on Amazon.

The Steinberg Agency has three forthcoming novels with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, with Kathy Pories serving as editor - Michael Parker’s Five Thousand Dollar Car, Drew Perry’s Semi-Flightless Birds, and Nina de Gramont’s This, and my Heart Beside.

Congratulations to Brad Watson for winning a 2011 Guggenheim Fiction Fellowship. His book Aliens in the Primes of Their Lives was nominated for a PEN/Faulker award earlier this year.

Michael Parker’s novel The Watery Part of the World receives a full page nod from The New York Times Book Review, four out of four stars from People Magazine, and a starred review from Kirkus. Vickie Craston, owner of Litchfield Books in Pawley’s Island, S.C. mentions it as a hot read for the summer in an NPR interview.

Keith Donohue’s Centuries of June receives a fantastic review from The Washington Post.

Kelly Dorfman speaks with CNN’s Kiran Chetry about her book What’s Eating Your Child and the link between food and childhood ailments.

Alma Katsu’s The Taker receives a rave review from Publisher’s Weekly, and a starred review from Booklist. Book trailers and author interviews are available on her blog almakatsu.com.

Ada Calhoun, co-author of Gunn’s Golden Rules and the upcoming Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible, has a piece featured in the New York Times Lives Column about her tragic teenage geekdom, or lack thereof.

David Halperin’s Journal of a UFO Investigator receives a glowing review from The Jewish Daily Forward

F.J. Lennon’s first novel, Soul Trapper, featured in the New Jersey Star Ledger

Tim Gunn’s next book has been announced – Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet. The book explores the history of fashion and clothing.

Alma Katsu’s novel The Taker will now be the first book in a trilogy, to be published by Gallery/Simon & Schuster

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Congratulations to Andrew Ervin, Brad Watson and Susan Woodring – three Steinberg Agency clients shortlisted as distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories 2010

Tim Gunn’s Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making it Work hits the New York Times bestseller list in its first week of release, debuting at number five.

Drew Perry’s This is Just Exactly Like You shortlisted for the prestigious Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from The Center for Fiction at the Mercantile Library in New York

Brad Watson’s Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives receives a full-page rave in the New York Times Book Review

Extraordinary Renditions, a first novel by Andrew Ervin selected as Publishers Weekly “Pick of the Week” and earns a starred review

Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet is a national bestseller, reaching #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list and featured on Oprah

Coming in September 2010 from Gallery Books: Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making it Work by beloved fashion icon Tim Gunn

A great Q&A with Brad Watson, author of the newly released short story collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives in the Boston Globe

A deal for a great first novel called The Taker by author Alma Katsu in Publishers Weekly. International book rights have already been sold in the UK, Italy, Russia and Spain

This is Just Exactly Like You by Drew Perry and Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson both Winter/Spring 2010 Okra Picks

A wonderful review for Nina de Gramont’s first YA novel Every Little Thing in the World in Publishers Weekly.

Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein optioned by HBO for a possible television series.

Founding editor of babble.com Ada Calhoun’s first book Instinctive Parenting featured in the March issue of Redbook.

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Foreign rights for JOURNAL OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR, a first novel by David Halperin sold in Germany, Italy and Spain

Coming in October 2009 from Rodale: Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Losing Weight, Looking Great, Saving Yourself, the Animals and the Planet!

Peter Steinberg featured in Agent Roundtable in the May/June Poets & Writers Magazine

Brad Watson’s short story, Visitation appeared in a March issue of The New Yorker. It’s a story in his new short story collection, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives being published by W.W. Norton in March, 2010

A wonderful review of Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue in The Washington Post

I Love You Philip Morris (based on Steve McVicker’s book of the same name) has been accepted by the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.) Here’s a clip of the film, starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor

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The film adaptation of Alicia Erian’s Towelhead, written and directed by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty) and starring Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Summer Bishel and Aaron Eckhart will be distributed by Warner Independent and will be released in select theaters on September 12, 2008.

Now back in print with a new publisher on the occasion of the Towelhead movie release, Alicia Erian’s classic short story collection The Brutal Language of Love.

David Bajo’s debut novel The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri was recently published to critical acclaim. Here’s a great Los Angeles Times review.

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father has been awarded the 2008 PULITZER PRIZE in the biography category.

A film adaptation of Steve McVicker’s I Love You Phillip Morris starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor is now in production in New Orleans and Miami.

Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont is a June Booksense pick.

Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein just won the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 2007 Books For a Better Life Award in the psychology category.

Karl Iagnemma’s first novel The Expeditions was recently published to critical acclaim.

Read a wonderful review Cathy Day’s memoir Comeback Season, just published, in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski: Life, the Big Lebowski and What-Have-You is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and in its fifth printing.

The film adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s Tideland, directed by Terry Gilliam, now available on DVD.

Keith Donohue’s The Stolen Child is a national bestseller and has sold in twenty-five countries, with film rights optioned by Amazon.com.

Peter Steinberg picked as one of the “Twenty-one Agents You Should Know” by the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.