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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Very proud that Keyu Jin, one of the most brilliant people I know, gets to publish her book with Viking and the extraordinary editor, Terezia. This will be an immense and mind blowing take—one you’ve ever heard before.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It is sad really. It also alters one of the core principles of the game, which is in flow and dynamic real time decision making by all 3 units. Imagine if the nfl went to 3 downs: it’s a different game. The worst part, for me, is how it’s reengineering the game itself, and how players think.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am humbled to call @rickperlstein.bsky.social a friend. I am also humbled that I played a small part in his new book, The Infernal Triangle, though external forces disabled us from seeing it through the means by which it arose. In any case, follow him, as I certainly shall!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A sad day for all of us. But proud to have known him and be an agent at the firm he built. His legacy in the literary world is unparalleled. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

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Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I picked by Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen as my holiday read. It is by far one of the best works of political satire fiction I’ve read in a long while. I didn’t know just how much I needed this. And can’t believe it took me so long to discover Hiaasen.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Very happy for my brilliant author, Professor Levine of Stanford, for landing her first trade book on the untold intertwined history of academic freedom and political free speech with Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A book I have been waiting for - and all the reviews make me quite thrilled to begin reading it.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm looking forward to reading this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

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You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

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Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I am late in seeing this!!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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...

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Edmund White, Novelist and Pioneer of Gay Literature, Dies at 85

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Can’t wait to get a copy of this!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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!

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Can’t wait to pick up Cassidy’s new book.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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...

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Mario Vargas Llosa: An Appreciation

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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...

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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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I never miss an Evan Osnos book! So excited by this.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In these trying times, my mind is like a page from Joyce, proofing his novel (I haven’t been able to verify if it’s real). But visually it is apt.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Grateful to Anne Applebaum, and proud to be at Borchardt. This book has helped me immensely make sense of the news, and unlike the news, is not confusing. A brilliant book, and a powerful lens into what’s going on.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One of my favorite books. I used to think it helped inform my thinking, drawing from the past, but to think of its continued relevance is a reminder, and a warning.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

News, as they say. Granted, there’s enough news. But this one is personal. Books to be made, especially during these times. Now as an agent representing non-fiction of all kinds.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I am old enough to remember, and in hindsight wish, that the Y2K internet blackout had happened, and I didn’t have to actually discover what millions of people actually do think, every second of everyday.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This book, despite being published decades ago, has remained one of the most interesting explanations for the country I’ve read. Here’s to more of this, in the new year and beyond.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“Joseph Epstein, in his memoir, “Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life,” said a career has five stages: “(1) Who is Joseph Epstein? (2) Get me Joseph Epstein. (3) We need someone like Joseph Epstein. (4) What we need is a young Joseph Epstein. (5) Who is Joseph Epstein?” - Dwight Garner, NYT

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A well known agent told me the other day that a concern for those disillusioned by the election may tune out of media, and thus forestall the publicity efforts of new books to find their readers. I feel the truth of it, but don’t tune out books—they’ll help us through, as always.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1916.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, drinking coffee in a coffee shop. He will not live to know that people are using Chatgtp as therapists, and I for one am grateful for that.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A very interesting intellectual history and overview of translation, tracing its roots from Antiquity to the present. Inspired in part by Damien Searls’ philosophy of translation, who translated Jon Fosse, the essay nicely situates the translator’s dilemma www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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What Does a Translator Do?

Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One of the ironic facts of social media, where information flies around, accurate or not, is that most is sourced, originally, from a book. Whether people know that or not is irrelevant; more so, it’s clear hardly anyone reads the source, just shares or engages with the information.

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

More a book editor than a website maker, but decided to make a simple site for authors, published or debut, who need help. Feel free to share with anyone who may need freelance help, and wants trade publishing insight: Pronoysarkareditorial.com

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Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Martin Amis mused that after publishing four novels without much fanfare, by the 80s, with his fifth book, he began getting attention, though he does not attribute it to the public pining for novels. Rather, he thinks the media needed to pad the pages, and running out of topics, began covering books

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