Pronoy
@pronoysarkar.bsky.social
Literary agent at Georges Borchardt, wide range of non fiction. Former Little, Brown, Macmillan, S&S. Agent contact: pronoy@gbagency.com. Interested in experts, reporters, and compelling work writ large. Feel free to query me at the email above.
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Pronoy
@pronoysarkar.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Reporters, scholars across disciplines, critics—if you’re pushing boundaries, and doing important work, get in touch. And share with others, for discovering what books we can do is paramount nowadays. I’m excited to learn something new, and help you bring it to market.
Proud to represent Brian Albrecht’s first book, which sold to @stripepress.bsky.social! Will reveal the story and hidden forces behind prices we encounter every day. Brian is the perfect economist to write this book, and you should follow his popular substack, Economic Forces.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Proud to represent Brian Albrecht’s first book, which sold to @stripepress.bsky.social! Will reveal the story and hidden forces behind prices we encounter every day. Brian is the perfect economist to write this book, and you should follow his popular substack, Economic Forces.
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
If anyone needed reminding of the importance of books, know that the LLMs that have rapidly become commonplace among so many have used books as part of their predictive persuasion. Nearly all ideas, good or bad, probably came from a writer.
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If anyone needed reminding of the importance of books, know that the LLMs that have rapidly become commonplace among so many have used books as part of their predictive persuasion. Nearly all ideas, good or bad, probably came from a writer.
A book I have been waiting for - and all the reviews make me quite thrilled to begin reading it.
Charles Blow with a profound review of Nicholas Boggs' new biography of James Baldwin: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
A Tender New Biography Emphasizes James Baldwin’s Romantic Side
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A book I have been waiting for - and all the reviews make me quite thrilled to begin reading it.
If you’re an expert or reporter, I’m a nonfiction agent at Borchardt who focuses on ideas and stories that matter, whether it’s a big idea, history, psychology, science, economics, social issue reporting, or exceptional literary or creative nonfiction. Get in touch!
July 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you’re an expert or reporter, I’m a nonfiction agent at Borchardt who focuses on ideas and stories that matter, whether it’s a big idea, history, psychology, science, economics, social issue reporting, or exceptional literary or creative nonfiction. Get in touch!
Terrific book. A new way to think about an issue I thought I had a good handle on. Essential reading from @jgienapp.bsky.social
Against Constitutional Originalism by @jgienapp.bsky.social is as accessible as it is important, which can rarely be said about a work of Constitutional theory and interpretation. Should be great for course use in law, poli sci, and history.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
July 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Terrific book. A new way to think about an issue I thought I had a good handle on. Essential reading from @jgienapp.bsky.social
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Hoping to finish by the end of the year my book subtitled "How America Got This Way." To be published by Little, Brown.
July 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hoping to finish by the end of the year my book subtitled "How America Got This Way." To be published by Little, Brown.
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I'm looking forward to reading this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm looking forward to reading this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
Lots to ponder in this piece. What’s Happening to Reading? www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lots to ponder in this piece. What’s Happening to Reading? www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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I am late in seeing this!!
"Baldwin wrestled with this anxiety."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @prorogers.bsky.social & @liberalcurrents.com!
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www.liberalcurrents.com/existential-...
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @prorogers.bsky.social & @liberalcurrents.com!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: buff.ly/3CqxZ0z
www.liberalcurrents.com/existential-...
Existential Liberalism: James Baldwin and the Problem of Freedom
The burden of freedom has always been heavy, and Baldwin forces us to confront whether we are willing to bear it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am late in seeing this!!
Agree. From Borchardt client Arlie Hoschild, who has written incredible accounts of this era were in, from Strangers in Our Land and, most recently, Stolen Pride.
Remarkable reported opinion piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Agree. From Borchardt client Arlie Hoschild, who has written incredible accounts of this era were in, from Strangers in Our Land and, most recently, Stolen Pride.
Sad to see this. When I first moved to NYC, I wanted to read books about the city, and White’s City Boy was a revelation. A loss for American letters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...
Edmund White, Novelist and Pioneer of Gay Literature, Dies at 85
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Sad to see this. When I first moved to NYC, I wanted to read books about the city, and White’s City Boy was a revelation. A loss for American letters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...
Historians, if you’re doing important work and interested in trade publishing, please get in touch. It is an area I love, and am always looking to represent in, especially in the areas the discipline has historically ignored!
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Historians, if you’re doing important work and interested in trade publishing, please get in touch. It is an area I love, and am always looking to represent in, especially in the areas the discipline has historically ignored!
Can’t wait to get a copy of this!
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Can’t wait to get a copy of this!
Very proud of these two, both of whom won Pulitzers as part of their teams at the Washington Post and WSJ, respectively. It was an honor to publish their first books!
May 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Very proud of these two, both of whom won Pulitzers as part of their teams at the Washington Post and WSJ, respectively. It was an honor to publish their first books!
The blitz of news, coming hourly, in all directions, latched to social media’s ability to transmit thought instantly has made the “thinking slow” aspect of proper judgement - per Kahneman - pretty tough.
April 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The blitz of news, coming hourly, in all directions, latched to social media’s ability to transmit thought instantly has made the “thinking slow” aspect of proper judgement - per Kahneman - pretty tough.
Can’t wait to pick up Cassidy’s new book.
I'm enormously grateful to Becca Rothfeld and
@washingtonpost.com for this thoughtful and early review of my new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to A.I.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
@washingtonpost.com for this thoughtful and early review of my new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to A.I.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | Critics have always reminded us: Capitalism is a choice
John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics” is a rewarding guide to the many fascinating attempts throughout history to rethink or resist the economic system
www.washingtonpost.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can’t wait to pick up Cassidy’s new book.
Very excited by @leahlitman.bsky.social’s book! I had the small benefit of talking to her about it when I was an editor, and I was already a fan. Now its timing is, sadly, impeccable, but vibes is a pretty good summation of what we’re witnessing. Ordered.
*clears throat*: if you’d like to read more about this … delivered in a snarky, irreverent tone, may I recommend …. bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
April 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Very excited by @leahlitman.bsky.social’s book! I had the small benefit of talking to her about it when I was an editor, and I was already a fan. Now its timing is, sadly, impeccable, but vibes is a pretty good summation of what we’re witnessing. Ordered.
Sad news. Years ago I worked on the paperback editions of his work in English, and though his reputation whipsawed in recent years, reading his work and being part of it in a small way was special. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
Mario Vargas Llosa: An Appreciation
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sad news. Years ago I worked on the paperback editions of his work in English, and though his reputation whipsawed in recent years, reading his work and being part of it in a small way was special. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
Been revisiting Lasch, when I can, to help read between the news. This piece does a good job of synthesizing his prescience—as well as showing that some features of the moment are not new, just repackaged. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...
30 Years Ago, This Book Saw the Coming Backlash Against Elites
Christopher Lasch’s “The Revolt of the Elites” anticipated the resentments of ordinary Americans that have led inexorably to Trumpism.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Been revisiting Lasch, when I can, to help read between the news. This piece does a good job of synthesizing his prescience—as well as showing that some features of the moment are not new, just repackaged. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...
Terrific review and appraisal of Lynne Tillman and her new book of stories, by Jess Row: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | These short-short stories don’t leave you much time to catch your breath
“Thrilled to Death” is a selection of Lynne Tillman’s fiction from the 1980s to the present day.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Terrific review and appraisal of Lynne Tillman and her new book of stories, by Jess Row: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
An interview with historian Nell Painter. Informative, incisive, and most of all, not irritating, like the news out of Washington. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
History in Open Air | Nell Irvin Painter, Sam Needleman
Since the end of the last century, Nell Irvin Painter writes in her essay “‘This Land Is Yours,’” published in our March 27 issue, historians of many
www.nybooks.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
An interview with historian Nell Painter. Informative, incisive, and most of all, not irritating, like the news out of Washington. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
This is a good time to remind myself that I run a trade deficit with my local bookstore, where I get books, and they get my money.
April 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is a good time to remind myself that I run a trade deficit with my local bookstore, where I get books, and they get my money.
I never miss an Evan Osnos book! So excited by this.
Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I never miss an Evan Osnos book! So excited by this.
Always ask historians. Some good folks here, and some tough and scary forecasts—though as @thomaszimmer.bsky.social notes, not uncommon. History may not repeat, but it accumulates.
What does the U.S. look like in five or ten years?
I was asked to reflect on this question, alongside other scholars. In a stable democracy, the range of plausible outcomes should be narrow. But for America, it now includes complete democratic breakdown and full-blown authoritarian rule.
I was asked to reflect on this question, alongside other scholars. In a stable democracy, the range of plausible outcomes should be narrow. But for America, it now includes complete democratic breakdown and full-blown authoritarian rule.
Opinion | What America could look like a decade from now
Political scientists and historians weigh in on authoritarianism’s impact on the United States.
wapo.st
March 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Always ask historians. Some good folks here, and some tough and scary forecasts—though as @thomaszimmer.bsky.social notes, not uncommon. History may not repeat, but it accumulates.