Simon and Schuster paid six figures for critic Daniel Mendelsohn’s book about Greek Literature that comes out in 2012.
Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago has a new novel, The Elephant’s Journey, coming out in 2010 from Harcourt.
Historian David Fromkin sequel to his 1989 book, A Peace to End All Peace, will be published by Knopf, who Fromkin was with for years before moving to Penguin.
Vintage will publish GQ writer Alex Pappademas’s collection of essays about how comics and other “nerdy” entertainment have become mainstream in pop culture.
Pam Dorman has acquired a novel about Edith Wharton titled The Age of Ardor by Jennie Fields for her new Viking imprint.
