Caroline Eisenmann
@carolineeisenmann.bsky.social
senior literary agent & VP at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, ce@goldinlit.com
Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
Happiest of publication days to this utterly singular, extremely good novel. An adventure story, an exploration of the rotten heart of the American frontier myth, a tender meditation on male friendship and making a family, and a truly freaky novel about alchemy and hunting a giant salamander.
My book The Great Work comes out today! Still can't quite believe this is a thing that is happening. Special thanks to my extremely talented editor @jesszimmerman.com and my wonderful agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, both of whom were steadfast champions for this very weird novel.
The Great Work by Sheldon Costa: 9781683695059 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Not to be missed.”—Booklist “A moody, atmospheric, and singular novel which navigates corners of American history through the complicated territory of horror, the monstrous,...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Happiest of publication days to this utterly singular, extremely good novel. An adventure story, an exploration of the rotten heart of the American frontier myth, a tender meditation on male friendship and making a family, and a truly freaky novel about alchemy and hunting a giant salamander.
a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic
ripping down a whole wing of the White House just feels a little TOO on the nose if I'm being honest
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ripping down a whole wing of the White House just feels a little TOO on the nose if I'm being honest
hard to convey how fucking cool it is to edit a really good writer, especially over the course of years/multiple projects: it's this conversation you're in with a mind that gets deeper and deeper, and still you're occasionally surprised by what comes out when you push them, where they can reach
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
hard to convey how fucking cool it is to edit a really good writer, especially over the course of years/multiple projects: it's this conversation you're in with a mind that gets deeper and deeper, and still you're occasionally surprised by what comes out when you push them, where they can reach
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The Great Work got a starred review from Kirkus 🥲
"Whether Gentle is a visionary or a drunk, whether the salamander is a creature of flesh or a shared delusion, and ultimately, the meaning of the mission is as much about human frailty and grace as the nightmares that stalk the page."
"Whether Gentle is a visionary or a drunk, whether the salamander is a creature of flesh or a shared delusion, and ultimately, the meaning of the mission is as much about human frailty and grace as the nightmares that stalk the page."
THE GREAT WORK | Kirkus Reviews
A shy young man joins his eccentric uncle on a wild hunt to kill a dragon and raise the dead.
www.kirkusreviews.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Great Work got a starred review from Kirkus 🥲
"Whether Gentle is a visionary or a drunk, whether the salamander is a creature of flesh or a shared delusion, and ultimately, the meaning of the mission is as much about human frailty and grace as the nightmares that stalk the page."
"Whether Gentle is a visionary or a drunk, whether the salamander is a creature of flesh or a shared delusion, and ultimately, the meaning of the mission is as much about human frailty and grace as the nightmares that stalk the page."
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ok here's my nyc policy idea: create the post of Chief Weirdo. The job goes to an iconic freak whose job it is to maintain our world-leading weirdo levels. Curtis Sliwa can be the inaugural officeholder
October 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
ok here's my nyc policy idea: create the post of Chief Weirdo. The job goes to an iconic freak whose job it is to maintain our world-leading weirdo levels. Curtis Sliwa can be the inaugural officeholder
I’m not certain I agree with Sliwa on virtually anything but I do have to respect how much he seems to hate Cuomo
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’m not certain I agree with Sliwa on virtually anything but I do have to respect how much he seems to hate Cuomo
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Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office
As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.
www.newyorker.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
wow nothing like someone impersonating an editor fishing for a novel you have on sub to make you feel alive, I’m flattered Filippo 🥲
September 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
wow nothing like someone impersonating an editor fishing for a novel you have on sub to make you feel alive, I’m flattered Filippo 🥲
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On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.
to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.
Such an honor to work on this one, on so many levels-- it's a special project, and going to be a beautiful, incredibly thoughtful book.
I'm so happy to finally share this news. This book is about how the past 9 years changed my ideas about family, community, and care, and how those ideas fit into a long history. Huge thanks to my agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, who held my hand through much angst, and to my editor Abby Mohr.
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Such an honor to work on this one, on so many levels-- it's a special project, and going to be a beautiful, incredibly thoughtful book.
sitting in the coffee shop in the lobby of one of NYC's major publishers with the agency submissions tracking doc open.......... living dangerously...........
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
sitting in the coffee shop in the lobby of one of NYC's major publishers with the agency submissions tracking doc open.......... living dangerously...........
"oh man, I think things are about to get really bad" a thought I have had approximately 123,342 times in 2025 so far
September 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"oh man, I think things are about to get really bad" a thought I have had approximately 123,342 times in 2025 so far
once again reckoning with the fact that I may never in my life encounter another piece of writing I consider quite as perfect as this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/...
Meditation at Lagunitas
That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the other notion that, becau...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
once again reckoning with the fact that I may never in my life encounter another piece of writing I consider quite as perfect as this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/...
everything is so stupid all the time
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
everything is so stupid all the time
sat across the subway this morning from a man with a long mullet reading ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, hard yikes
August 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
sat across the subway this morning from a man with a long mullet reading ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, hard yikes
we live in hell, exhibit 586,608
August 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
we live in hell, exhibit 586,608
laughably horrible outside
July 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
laughably horrible outside
I've been lusting after her cookbook but decided I had to cook a few of her recipes first to prove the buy to myself and good lord this first one was a stone cold knockout, actual restaurant quality cafehailee.com/recipes/stic...
Sticky Cherry Chicken Thighs | Hailee Catalano Recipes | Cafe Hailee
cafehailee.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I've been lusting after her cookbook but decided I had to cook a few of her recipes first to prove the buy to myself and good lord this first one was a stone cold knockout, actual restaurant quality cafehailee.com/recipes/stic...
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Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship
Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran on the rise of tech authoritarianism.
www.theverge.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
I didn't expect that Trump would actually somehow manage to make me MORE interested in Epstein conspiracy theories, but here we are
July 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I didn't expect that Trump would actually somehow manage to make me MORE interested in Epstein conspiracy theories, but here we are
So pleased to be working with the beyond brilliant Jaime on this gorgeous, expansive book on out space: our place in it, and our responsibilities to it. I adore the way she writes and thinks, and know how special this one is going to be!
Beyond thrilled to share that I'm writing my next book, AT HOME IN THE STARS. It's about the human expansion into space and space as a human environment. Think Carl Sagan meets Robert Macfarlane. 🪐✨🧑🚀🌱 If you want updates / news when the book is (someday) out: jaimealyse.behiiv.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So pleased to be working with the beyond brilliant Jaime on this gorgeous, expansive book on out space: our place in it, and our responsibilities to it. I adore the way she writes and thinks, and know how special this one is going to be!
Jess is one hell of an editor and a fierce advocate for her authors-- as an agent I'm sorry to see her go at Quirk, but if I were an author in need of a freelance editor, I'd jump at this!
Today was my last day at Quirk—which means I finally have time for freelance editing clients! If you’re developing a book at any stage please get in touch and we can discuss how I can help www.jesszimmerman.com/editing.html
June 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Jess is one hell of an editor and a fierce advocate for her authors-- as an agent I'm sorry to see her go at Quirk, but if I were an author in need of a freelance editor, I'd jump at this!