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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: 10
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
MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson(Random House)
THE GIANT OF EDGEHILL by Kathleen Kent (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown)
THINGS I WANTED TO DO TODAY by Robin Antalek (HarperPerennial)
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Lauren Grodstein (Algonquin Books)
THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW by Peter Bognanni (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
A DISOBEDIENT GIRL by Ru Freeman (Atria)

NON FICTION
SON OF A GUN by Justin St. Germain (Random House)
THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE by Dyan DeNapoli(Free Press)
THE WORLD WITHOUT END by Randi Davenport (Algonquin Books)
THE MOVEMENT OF PRECIOUS OBJECTS by Alicia Oltuski (Scribner)

recently published

TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: STORIES by Kevin Wilson (Ecco/HaperPerennial)

“daring and often exquisitely tender..” –New York Times Book Review

“Weird and wonderful stories from a writer who has that most elusive of gifts: new ideas.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Absurd and utterly engaging, Wilson's stories often sneakily turn heart-breaking. He has a gift for tunneling through hilarious situations to lay bare the raw emotions that make his characters so very real.” –Wisconsin State Journal

An IndieNext Pick for April

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER
by Kathleen Kent(Little, Brown)

“…a powerful coming-of-age tale in which tragedy is trumped by an unsinkable faith in human nature…Like ‘The Crucible,’ The Heretic’s Daughter uses the Salem witch hunt to explore larger themes…but at its core, it’s a story about a family.” The New York Times Book Review

"The Heretic's Daughter is raw, honest and completely captivating... A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history." - Anita Shreve

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction

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

A San Fransisco Chronicle Bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. 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.

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson to Bloomsbury in the UK, Allen & Unwin in Australia/New Zealand, and Piemme in Italy

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER by Kathleen Kent to Rye Field (Complex Chinese rights), to Beijing Xiron Books (Simplified Chinese rights), and to Nova Fronteira in Brazil

A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Lauren Grodstein to Kate Elton at Random House UK

PILGRIMAGE by Zoe Ferraris to Richard Beswick at Little, Brown UK, Doris Janhsen at Pendo in Germany, Tanja Hendricks at Artemis in the Netherlands, Piemme in Italy

A DISOBEDIENT GIRL by Ru Freeman to Kate Barker at Viking UK, Piemme in Italy, Heleen Booth at Mistral in the Netherlands and Matar in Israel

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

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; AST in Russia; Record in Brazil; QuidNovi in Portugal; RBA in Spain; Bard in Bulgaria; RAO in Romania

SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
Intercontinental Literary Agency
Nicki Kennedy/ nicki.kennedy@ila-agency.co.uk : French, German, Spainish, Japananese
Sam Edenborough / sam.edenborough@ila-agency.co.uk : Italian, 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.