{"id":2094,"name":"Rachel Goldblatt","url":"rachel-goldblatt","department":{"id":2,"name":"Books","url":"books"},"phone":"+44 (0)20 7393 4418","email":"rachel.goldblatt@curtisbrown.co.uk","summary":"","bio":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;float: none;\">I joined Curtis Brown in 2022 and am now an Associate Agent. I assist Jonathan Lloyd and am also actively building my own list.<\/span><\/p><p>In\u00a0terms of fiction, I\u2019m particularly drawn to character and voice driven narratives that make me feel deeply and think hard about the world\u00a0around us.\u00a0If\u00a0the writing is compelling, agile, atmospheric and intelligent I can fall for any kind of story,\u00a0but I especially enjoy those that have a strong sense of time and place, are clear and bold in their intent and style and that interrogate what it means to be human. I love books that explore complicated or outsider characters, complex family dynamics, the domestic space, modern life, relationships in all forms, identity and the female experience. Some recent favourites include <i>Kick the Latch <\/i>by Kathyrn Scanlan, <i>John of John <\/i>by Douglas Stuart,\u00a0<i>Trespasses\u00a0<\/i>by Louise Kennedy, <i>Close to Home <\/i>by Michael Magee, <i>Assembly <\/i>by Natasha Brown, <i>Heart the Lover <\/i>by Lily King, <i>The Mars Room <\/i>by Rachel Kushner,\u00a0<i>Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow <\/i>by Gabrielle Zevin\u00a0and <i>On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous <\/i>by Ocean Vuong<i>.\u00a0<\/i><br\/><\/p><p>I always love reading clever novels with a dark edge - in the vein of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;float: none;\">Ottessa Moshfegh's\u00a0<\/span><i>Eileen, <\/i>Mieko Kawakami's <i>Heaven\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;float: none;\">Olga\u00a0Tokarczuk's\u00a0<\/span><i>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead<\/i>\u00a0-\u00a0as well as richly constructed, ambitious historical and speculative fiction, such as Lauren Groff's\u00a0<i>Matrix<\/i>, Rose Tremain's <i>Music &amp; Silence,\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;float: none;\">Susanna Clarke's\u00a0<\/span><i>Piranesi<\/i>\u00a0and Hilary Mantel's\u00a0<i>Wolf Hall<\/i> Trilogy.<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u00a0want to read absorbing narrative non-fiction that challenges and broadens our perspective and\u00a0offers a fresh take on or new approach to big subjects. I am especially\u00a0drawn to books about nature, art, history and contemporary social issues as well as literary biography and criticism, and I'm always interested in extraordinary stories about real people or events. Examples of non-fiction titles I admire include <i>All That Glitters <\/i>by Orlando Whitfield,\u00a0<i>Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne <\/i>by Katherine Rundell,\u00a0<i>The Premonitions Bureau<\/i>\u00a0by Sam Knight, <i>Aftermath <\/i>by Preti Taneja,<i> Empire of\u00a0Pain\u00a0<\/i>by Patrick Radden Keefe and\u00a0<i>Essayism <\/i>by Brian Dillon<i>.<\/i><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u00a0also\u00a0enjoy reading creative, formally inventive memoir and life writing. Some favourites include Annie Ernaux\u2019s\u00a0<i>The Years<\/i>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Carmen Maria\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Machado's<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><i>\u00a0In The Dream House, <\/i>Joanna Biggs'\u00a0<i style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><i>A Life of One's Own,\u00a0<\/i><\/i>Doireann N\u00ed Ghr\u00edofa's<span style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: left;float: none;\">\u00a0<i>A Ghost in the Throat<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><i>\u00a0<\/i>and Hua Hsu's <i>Stay True<\/i>.<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><b>I am not looking for YA, fantasy or commercial thrillers.<\/b><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u200b<b><b>I am open to submissions and eager to find new writers. Working editorially with authors is one of my favourite parts of my job and I am keen to hear from debut novelists. If you would like to submit your work to me, please email rachel.goldblatt@curtisbrown.co.uk with your covering letter and a sample of your work (a synopsis and the first 10,000 words\/three chapters of a novel or your non-fiction proposal). Due to the volume of submissions I receive I am unfortunately unable to reply to every query, so if you haven't had a reply within eight weeks I am unlikely to make an offer of representation.<\/b><\/b><\/p>","profile_photo":93773,"show_clients":true,"links":{},"meta_tags":"","media_urls":{"93773":{"uuid":"d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323","protected":false,"urls":{"original":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/original","horizontal":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/horizontal","700x373":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/700x373","262x140":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/262x140","square":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/square","700x700":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/700x700","328x328":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/328x328","139x139":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/139x139","73x73":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/73x73","vertical":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/vertical","600x732":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/600x732","300x360":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/300x360","650x650":"\/media\/d3a9fcc9-e6d9-469b-b162-d6571992c323\/show\/650x650"}}}}