Strothman Agency

The Strothman Agency and Aevitas Creative Management have announced a new alliance. Strothman Agency President, Wendy Strothman, and Vice President, Lauren MacLeod, will agent under the Aevitas banner starting January 1, 2023.

With David McWilliams discussing my theory that a new form of hyper-capital (I call it cloud capital) has acquired such capacities that it has defeated capitalism itself, yielding a form of techno-feudalism. Thanks to the brilliant Kilkenomics audience! open.spotify.com/episode/3BMhhh…

“This is one of those classic biographies that I think readers will just love diving into. Rich in detail and nuance, it drops readers into Dunbar’s life and times, offering a fascinating look at both the literary and personal life of this great American poet.” -- @BookRiot

Delighted to see @BookRiot include @GeneJarrett's PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CAGED BIRD on this "Best Biographies of 2022" list! bookriot.com/best-biographi…

This year's Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations goes to "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories", edited by Christopher M. Nichols @CMcKNichols & David Milne @davidjmilne2. Congratulations to the editors and contributors!

The Strothman Agency honors the life and work of Doris Grumbach who died this week at age 104. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Egypt’s environmental history offers a warning for COP27, Alan Mikhail writes in @MadeByHistory wapo.st/3fGOJWn

Congratulations to @GeneJarrett author of PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (Princeton) and @DavidKertzer author of THE POPE AT WAR (Random House) both of which were included in the @NewYorker's list of best books of 2022! newyorker.com/best-books-2022

Ken Burns Wishes More People Would Call Willa Cather a Great American Novelist nytimes.com/2022/10/20/boo…

Tim Parks reviews THE POPE AT WAR: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by @DavidKertzer for @nybooks : "[C]onvincing, and deeply disturbing...." nybooks.com/articles/2022/…

The @nytimes picks BLACK SNOW by @jamesmscott3 as one of their "15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall": nytimes.com/2022/09/08/boo…

A great review of Black Snow in Sunday's Seattle Times! "Compelling and ambitious.... Through the strength of his archival research and interviews with Japanese survivors, Scott puts readers in the hell that was Tokyo." seattletimes.com/entertainment/… via @seattletimes

The Strothman Agency stands with the @AuthorsGuild in opposing the Internet Archive’s scanning and distribution of copyrighted books. This practice steals income from and tramples on authors’ rights by giving away their books for free to the world.

Amazon greenlights ‘My Lady Jane’ based on YA novel by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows | @DEADLINE pwne.ws/3zOFyKI

Grateful for the fantastic review of The Pope at War in today's Washington Post washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Tennessee Voices, Episode 300 @Alora_young , the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern U.S., reads from new her memoir "Walking Gentry Home." tennessean.com/story/opinion/… -30-

Kerry D’Agostino (@dagostino_kerry), Lauren MacLeod (@Lauren_MacLeod), and Monica Odom of Odom Media Management (@modomodom) were elected to their second terms on the Board.

Excited to share that Publishers Weekly has named Black Snow as one of the ten best history books of the fall 2022!

Thanks to Daniel Silva for recommending The Pope at War on the Today Show this morning as the best nonfiction book of the summer and best book ever on the Catholic Church and WWII.

Good long piece today in Israel's preeminent newspaper on The Pope at War and the controversy it has spawned. Revealed: What Pope Pius XII really did during the Holocaust haaretz.com/jewish/2022-07…