Caroline Eisenmann
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senior literary agent & VP at @GoldinAgency , ce (at) goldinlit (dot) com.
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always a strange, slightly unhinged delight in explaining to those outside the industry that there is a Random House imprint within the Random House Publishing Group within Random House within Penguin Random House
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yeah, to be clear as the literary agent in question I very much support this
please stop emailing my employers and my literary agent over my very, very lukewarm antiwar tweets. they are not going to fire me for saying “i am horrified and outraged by the crimes against humanity I am witnessing”
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Some bright snow day personal news at the end of a long, deeply weird year
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I joined
@GoldinAgency
six years ago today (!), and so it's extra nice to be able to share this news on the anniversary of joining such a wonderful place
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We're hiring a new intern for the fall at
@GoldinAgency
! The position is paid ($15/hr), remote, and part time (12hr/week). Candidates can apply by emailing me a resume and cover letter: ce
@goldinlit
. More info below.
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I could not be more excited about the dazzling
@the_jennitaur
's next book, a profoundly brilliant exploration of time that both shows how capitalism has structured our understanding of time and invites us to imagine other more generous and generative constructions.
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.
@mcmansionhell
is a rare breed of critic and thinker-- as forcefully brilliant as she is scorchingly funny--and a writer who has changed the way that I (and so many!) think about built space. Truly thrilled that her book has found a perfect home with Maria at
@LiverightPub
!
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I've been asked to meet a few times by younger agents navigating the transition btwn assisting and list building, esp around the 3-4 year range. If that's you, don't hesitate to reach out, whether we know each other or not! I would be so happy to talk/give any advice I can.
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Unbelievably excited to share that
@chaykak
's next book, on the creeping cultural impact of the algorithms used by digital platforms, and the smooth, uncanny artifacts of our increasingly filtered world, will be published by Thomas Gebremedhin at
@doubledaybooks
.
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I will not respond to a querier's nasty response to my pass I will not respond to a querier's nasty response to my pass I will not respond to a querier's nasty respond to my pass I will not
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Sorry to get overly earnest on main, but
@GoldinAgency
has some incredibly cool staff news in the pipeline, and it is such a thrill to watch a fundamentally good place grow and flourish. It's going to be an exciting next few years to watch us.
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Started expanding my agency bio and couldn't stop, leaving this here in case anyone wants to read my "what I'm seeking" ramblings before I edit to an actual appropriate length for our website
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Impossibly, overwhelmingly delighted by this turn of events for the most wonderful book by the most wonderful
@GoldinAgency
author
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Love to write up my editor meeting notes for the agency
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I couldn't be more excited to share the cover of
@chaykak
's FILTERWORLD, out from
@doubledaybooks
in Jan 2024. A hugely revelatory look into how algorithms shape not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced-- and the unsettling empty sameness that results
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Some actual personal news: our foster to adopt application for a dog was advanced to the interview stage, what happens if I actually get a dog, I may expire
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one reason to be nice to younger people coming up in publishing is that I still remember the first a.) general publishing person and b.) more senior editor who took me to lunch, and think about it every time I see their names. roughly a decade of good will from one meal
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decided I could probably use a headshot that at least marginally represented the current state of my head
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so many parts of book publishing are objectively nonsensical, but continually do feel that the fact that this job involves teasing apart and working through interesting ideas with extremely smart and creative people is fairly rad
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less than thrilled to discover that after working out first thing this morning I feel incredible
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IT’S HAPPENING, IT’S ALL HAPPENING
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This wonderful
@nytimes
profile features the dizzying potential of encountering time differently, the marvel of deep attention,
@the_jennitaur
's mission of leading readers to experiences rather than prescriptions, some delightful rock shots, & more:
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There is a very specific editorial hum, felt while standing somewhat in awe of the real brilliance of a piece of work & also realizing that you have some small thing to give to the writing and the author. Impossible to describe how good or nourishing that feeling is.
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Saddened by the passing this weekend of Frances Goldin, lifelong activist and
@GoldinAgency
founder. I only had the privilege of knowing her near the end of her life, but even then it was apparent what a dazzlingly bright light she was.
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going to really reveal myself as having been Microsoft Word-pilled here but I do not understand how people routinely edit in Google docs, I do not like it at all!!!
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GUESS WHO ACCIDENTALLY SAT IN FRONT OF THEIR LIGHT BOX FOR TOO LONG THIS MORNING AND IS NOW THINKING AND FEELING IN ALL CAPS
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It was such a delight to work with
@jwongbaxter
on the wickedly talented
@delia_cai
's smart, funny, bracing novel about reckoning with the way you grew up--and the person you've become--and we couldn't be more excited that
@ispyaspy
will publish it at Ballantine!
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I’m at a book event and my tote bag got lost amidst the giant mass of other tote bags at the coat check, this is it, this is peak publishing problem
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the deep, diffuse dread of knowing you have to return to email tomorrow
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I'm just an agent, standing in front of a sea of blurb requests, asking you to please include the blurb deadline in your initial email
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About to have my first publishing lunch since the pandemic began: do I remember how to lunch
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Just scanned through my notes app and would now like to know what exactly I was going through at 8:39am on 1/14/20
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Email for the agency is down at the moment, so if you need to reach me TOO BAD, I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Are you a young person (ideally in publishing) in NYC who might like to pick up some dog sitting work on the side (reading for work and hanging out with my little anxious dog: compatible, as it turns out), or do you know someone who might fit that description? Drop me a DM!
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LBF, day 3: every single person is dead in the eyes, the conference center pigeons are flying low to the ground. The birds are our meetings now.
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Shout out to everyone else systematically cancelling the London Book Fair schedule they spent painstaking hours putting together
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how is my pandemic February going so far? well we just started watching the show about competitive glass blowing
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I paid $23 for WiFi on this stupid flight but have been gently informed by my boyfriend that I probably shouldn’t shout the update out what do I do with myself now
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A nice thing in strange times: excited for the world to meet Ye Chun's gorgeous, transportive, and devastating stories, & personally thrilled to have a book with the brilliant
@MeghaMaj
💞
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Incredibly excited about this one from
@Delistraty
--working on his brilliant proposal fundamentally changed the way I think about grief, and I truly can't wait to see what happens at book length. And thrilled it found such a great home with
@quesarah_sarah
at
@harperbooks
!
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Just wondered out loud to my boyfriend whether a SAD lamp could double time as a ring light for Zoom purposes, really getting into the pandemic winter groove
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occasionally wish that, instead of writing these careful author outreach notes, I could just email someone "holy shit I loved your story"
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I live on the couch now. Couch is home. There is no world, only couch
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guys my mom just texted me to ask what the publishing gossip was
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Aspire to never have anyone look at you the way Kamala Harris is looking at Mike Pence right now
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An excellent thread on how authors can think through selecting an agent. (On the flip side, I think about this a lot when in a competitive signing situation with other agents: you can present the best version of yourself, but you might not be the type of agent an author wants!)
Do you want your relationship with your agent to feel like a buddy (a friend of mine had her agent to karaoke, for example), or is it more important to you that they feel like a shark who might not be super friendly, but *will* fight tooth-and-nail for you in the marketplace?
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Good afternoon to the updates our new dog walker has been sending
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Happy US publication day to
@the_jennitaur
's SAVING TIME, a book that feels like both a challenge and a refuge, and which profoundly unsettles our experience of compressed, commodified time and offers a deep, humane dream about how things could be otherwise.
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Social distancing, day ???: my boyfriend just caught me barking out the window in response to the dogs on the street
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POETS SQUARE is an ineffably special project, funny and tender and guttingly sad, as much about cats as it is about the urgency of care in a world that can feel insurmountably broken.
@cgust
is the real deal, and I am so excited her book found a perfect home with
@libsburton
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Social distancing, day 7: I responded to a query with "HELL YEAH, SEND IT!" today
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wake up everyone,
@mcmansionhell
cooked and took us all on a journey to true McMansion Heaven
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I have read three (3) full books in the last four days, what new stage of quarantine madness is this
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"We're happy to take a look at your submission, you don't have to send us a cake"-- a sentence that I just said out loud on the phone
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Has anyone else’s brain entered full “is there any way I am making it out of NYC for the holidays without catching covid” mode because whewwwww
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there's really no easy way to talk about this, but: someone sent me a singing telegram today
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I also think it's sort of (darkly) funny to try and snitch to us, of all agencies, like-- maybe do a little research
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A slight, lovely startle to see this issue in my mailbox today— thanks to
@WritersDigest
for featuring me!
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Some sleuthing into the notable uptick in followers over the past few days (it can't... be the plant tweets, right?) has revealed that I'm on
@WritersDigest
's list of 25 Agents to Follow on Twitter!
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Tweeted about the kind of work I'm seeking, leading to avalanche of interesting sounding queries three (3) days before leaving for vacation: forced to admit I played myself here
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what are the odds that NYMag sex diary is a strategic operation meant to distract all of book publishing at once
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How is it possible to miss New York so much while still living in it
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I see we are having yet another "oh shit" publishing news day
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Just found an old email recounting an evening of drinks with an editor at Cafe Loup in which we sat at the table next to Patricia Clarkson. Quick question, is it possible to die of intolerable longing for the past
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update: yup
Just wondered out loud to my boyfriend whether a SAD lamp could double time as a ring light for Zoom purposes, really getting into the pandemic winter groove
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Today in piercingly weird agency events: trying to parse why we received a box containing three waterlogged, destroyed Spanish language copies of THE POISONWOOD BIBLE in addition to a set of neon pink electric skateboard (?) wheels but... I’m not sure I actually want to know.
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Sitting across the train from a man rhythmically flexing his pecs while drinking a can of malt liquor through a straw, NYC is back baby
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letter of recommendation: remembering you can unfollow people
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Waiting to hear back if we're confirmed to foster a dog for this weekend, I am feeling very chill, impossibly chill, probably the chillest I have ever been, peak chill
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A
@GoldinAgency
holiday gathering, we’re-still-in-a-pandemic-so-keeping-it-in-the-offices edition
(yes, I took this picture from the hammock)
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New and overwhelming urge to use and acquire cookbooks, please tell me your favorites?
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One strange thing about reading submissions is that normally it feels like work-- albeit varied, often engaging, somewhat unpredictable work-- but on the rare occasion of reading something really, really good, it's an electrifying full body high. (Just me?)
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Okay but the actual important news is that
@mcmansionhell
did a gingerbread McMansion competition again, and as expected, the results are Very Good
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Not the only bookish Eisenmann on the block any more... very proud of and excited for my dad, whose book comes out March 30!
These just arrived! Feels VERY good to finally hold the book, after only seeing it on a screen for the past 18 months. Publication date: March 30.
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if you are in NYC right now you should go outside, we are having One of Those Spring Days
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Got the boost this morning and was given a literal GIFT BAG on my way out, anyways consider this my love letter to New York Health + Hospitals
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I am also outrageously excited that we'll be welcoming
@jwongbaxter
to
@GoldinAgency
! We were all blown away by her intelligence, drive, and good taste from the first conversation, and I can't wait to work together.
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I am out of the office until Monday, August 30th, willfully acting like my email does not exist. If the matter is urgent, no it’s not.
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sorry I can't reply to your email today, I'm staring off into the middle distance thinking about the phrase "probably daddy"
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Happy publication day to
@nemerevermore
's THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS: a gorgeous fever dream about how first love can burn you alive, a thrilling and unnerving exploration of obsession and power, and a truly staggering debut from a serious writing talent.
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Happy publication day to Linda Rui Feng's gorgeous debut SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER, a novel full of beauty and wonder and deep feeling, an intimate story about family, immigration, and the way our private wounds shape us. Out from
@simonschuster
today!
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Some personal news: I'm so pleased to announce that I've been promoted to CPO (Chief Plant Officer) of the office
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my dog is having an exceptionally bark-ey day today and I looked at her and thought "you are a scream weasel" and now I can't unthink it
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Still absolutely fawning over the gorgeous cover
@CatapultStory
designed for Ye Chun's stunning collection.
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This is an incredibly widespread problem through the industry! And not to go all company man here, but I will always be grateful for
@sstoloff
's belief in giving younger agents at
@GoldinAgency
enough time and space to build their own lists. An unfortunately rare thing.
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I would like to be able to tell you that I did not shout and then literally jump up and down in excitement, but I would be lying
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Me, trying to figure out both the imprint structure of UK publishing and the physical location of offices in London, in advance of the London Book Fair (pandemic permitting)
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