Caroline Eisenmann

In adult literary and upmarket fiction, Caroline particularly responds to novels with speculative elements (especially those used in the service of an emotional truth), stories about obsession, ruthless narrators, and work that centers around intimacy and its discontents. She’s seeking novels that think through social issues on a human scale, and books from underrepresented voices. She tends to look for intensity and stakes on the page, whether that takes the form of visceral prose, a vivid consciousness, or a driving plot. On the more commercial end of her fiction list, she tends to gravitate to upmarket psychological thrillers and romantic comedies.

In nonfiction she is drawn to narrative and idea-driven work shaped by expansive curiosity, especially projects that render the hidden structures of the world more legible. Her areas of interest include science, technology, nature, social justice, psychology, culture, and the slippery workings of capitalism. She’s also looking for deeply reported narratives (particularly those that take the reader into the heart of a subculture), literary memoir, cultural criticism, and essay collections.