Deals.

The article reports on recent notable book publishing rights acquisitions, highlighting Algonquin’s rare simultaneous purchase of both English and U.S. Spanish rights to *The Phoenix of America* by Caro De Robertis, a novel about the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Other acquisitions include Grand Central’s purchase of *Zuma Belle Is Dead* by Lee May (the pen name of Johanna May Lane and Michael Lee Harvkey), Dial Press’s deal for *Maelstrom* by British singer-songwriter Hope Tala, and FSG’s acquisition of Rachel Cusk’s *Life of M*. Additionally, Harper secured rights to Peter Bogdanovich’s posthumous memoir *But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct*, while St. Martin’s, Atria, Bloomsbury, and Random House also acquired rights to various memoirs, anthologies, and nonfiction works. The article focuses on the details of these publishing deals, authors, and planned release dates. [Extracted from the article]