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Julie Barer
Barer Literary, LLC
270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1504, New York, NY 10012
212 691-3513
212 691-3540 (fax)
http://www.barerliterary.com
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After working for six years at the prestigious New York literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Julie Barer left to start her own agency, Barer Literary. Julie represents a wide range of fiction writers who publish across the literary spectrum. She also represents a variety of nonfiction clients whose specialties include biography, memoir, narrative nonfiction, history, and popular culture. When accepting new clients for representation, Julie is especially interested in working with emerging writers and developing long term relationships. Her list is extremely selective, which enables her to offer her clients the attention and support services they deserve. Julie remains consistently engaged with each aspect of the publishing process, from editing and selling the project to negotiating publicity and generating foreign sales

years experience: 7
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Literary and commercial fiction, Narrative non fiction, History, Biography, Memoir
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
THEN WE CAME TO THE END
by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown & Co.)
"Great-hearted, acidly funny, perceptive and darkly entertaining" - The New York Times
International Bestseller, Finalist for the National Book Award, Barnes & Noble Discover Award Winner, Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year

STILL LIFE WITH HUSBAND
by Lauren Fox (Alfred A. Knopf)
“Announces the arrival of an immensely gifted writer” - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

PEOPLE I WANTED TO BE
by Gina Ochsner (Houghton Mifflin)
“Ochsner's flawed, wholly sympathetic characters miraculously stumble into small moments, shaped with a delicious sense of the absurd, which connect them to a world that's magical, merciful, and infinite.” - Booklist *starred *

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
recent sales

FICTION
A DISOBEDIENT GIRL by Ru Freeman (Atria)
TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: STORIES by Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER by Kathleen Kent (Little, Brown & Co.)

NON FICTION
THE WORLD WITHOUT END by Randi Davenport (Algonquin Books)
THE MOVEMENT OF PRECIOUS OBJECTS by Alicia Oltuski (Scribner)
AN UNCOMMON DIVORCE: How One Mother Fought the Shakers to Bring Her Children Home by Ilyon Woo (Atlantic Monthly Press)

recently published

FINDING NOUF
by Zoe Ferraris (Houghton Mifflin)
"A tense psychological drama, and a riveting portrait of everyday life in a society with paranoid attitudes towards women and sex” -The Sunday Times
Chosen as one of the Best New Voices of the Year by Waterstone’s Booksellers, one of the Ten Best Novels of the Spring by The Independent, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense pick for June.

WHAT YOU HAVE LEFT
by Will Allison (Free Press)
“Mr. Allison’s novel is plainspoken and eloquent in the way the So Long, See You Tomorrow is plainspoken and eloquent. It’s worked up right out of the American grain and speaks to me, direct and true.” —Richard Ford
A June 2007 Book Sense Pick, Border's Original Voices and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

NAMES MY SISTERS CALL ME by Megan Crane (Grand Central/Five Spot)
"An inviting take on universal themes." —Kirkus
"Megan Crane rules! Cancel your evening plans: You won't want to stop reading until you've devoured every delicious word." --Meg Cabot

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Kevin Wilson to AST in Russia

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER by Kathleen Kent to Macmillan in the UK, Longanesi in Italy, De Boekerij in Holland, Sonia Draga in Poland, Goldmann Verlag in Germany and Espasa Calpe in Spain

STILL LIFE WITH HUSBAND by Lauren Fox to Ullstein in Germany; Sperling & Kupfer in Italy; Vintage in Australia

FINDING NOUF by Zoe Ferraris to Richard Beswick at Little, Brown UK; Belfond in France; Rizzoli in Italy; Artemis in Holland; Damm in Norway; Pendo Verlag in Germany; Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir in Israel Damm in Normway; Bazar in Sweden; AST in Russia; Record in Brazil; QuidNovi in Portugal; RBA in Spain; Bard in Bulgaria

FRENEMIES, EVERYONE ELSE'S GIRL and ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE by Megan Crane to Quercus Books (UK)

HEX EDUCATION by Emily Gould and Zareen Jaffery to House of Books in Holland; Fabbri in Italy; AST in Russia

SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
Intercontinental Literary Agency
Nicki Kennedy/ nicki.kennedy@ila-agency.co.uk : French, German, Italian, Spainish, Japananese
Sam Edenborough / sam.edenborough@ila-agency.co.uk : Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese (Brazil)
Mary Esdaile / mary.esdaile@ila-agency.co.uk : Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Croatian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Thai
Katherine West / katherine.west@ila-agency.co.uk : Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russia
Jenny Robson / jenny.robson@ila-agency.co.uk : Estonian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Arabic
Tessa Girvan / tessa.girvan@ila-agency.co.uk : All Children's/YA

United Kingdom/Australia:
Caspian Dennis: Abner Stein
caspian@abnerstein.co.uk

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
A query letter and a stamped self-addressed envelope for reply. You may also email your query to: submissions@barerliterary.com. Please note we do not accept queries via phone or fax.
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