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We’ve been neglecting NYC for far too long—see you on December 5th with the brilliant @Quartr_App team 🤭
I’m told there will be some limited-run Nomad Letters merch — and as always we’ll have coloring sheets and other treats for kids :) luma.com/9hs9m1z2
Stripe Press is popping up in NYC on December 5th with our friends @Quartr_App ☃️
Stop by Lavender Lake for hot coffee (and cocoa!) and browse the full collection. We’ll also have copies of our newest release, Nomad Letters. 📚
RSVP here: luma.com/9hs9m1z2
Really excited for the @Birdyword era of WIP.
Business writers, he’d love to hear from you:
We're looking for business writers!
Works in Progress is expanding into coverage of business and finance, and we're looking for freelance authors for extended feature-length pieces of 2,000-6,000 words. We will eventually be hiring full-time employees on this beat.
Find the most interesting company in the world, a brilliant financial model, or a telling and relevant piece of business history. Tell us why we should be fascinated by it too.
It could be the geography of an industry, like how Morocco grew to become an massive exporter of cars, or why Bangladesh can do in electronics what it has done with its massive textiles industry. It might be a piece on a new kind of business, like the firms trying to perfect proof of personhood in a world of super-powerful AI. You could write about unsung but vital pieces of hardware, like compressed air and industrial gas, which keep the most advanced manufacturing sites in the world going.
The subject can be lighthearted or momentous, but the piece should cover something you haven't seen everywhere else, which advances an argument and marshals strong evidence. It should be relevant to a broad group of intelligent readers, and enduring rather than short-lived. And we're absolutely definitely not looking for traditional PR pitches. A sense that you've read and understand something about WIP's output goes a long way.
If this sounds like your kind of thing, please send us 1-3 short paragraphs summing up your idea. If we're intrigued by your idea we may ask you for an outline over a page or two. We pay competitive rates to authors.
Email us at wip-pitches@stripe.com and mike@worksinprogress.co.
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From today, Works in Progress is now in stock at Barnes & Nobles nationwide across America.
We're in 570 stores in 49 states*, including the flagship stores at Union Square & Fifth Avenue in NYC; Georgetown, DC; State Street, Chicago; and The Grove, Los Angeles.
We're also now in Hudson News outlets across most major US airports, and the B&Ns at San Francisco Airport.
If you tweet (or LinkedIn/Insta post) a photo of a copy of Works in Progress outside any of these stores, share the post with me or @WorksInProgMag via DM and we'll send you a free tote bag as a thank you. If you're a subscriber already, feel free to do it with own copy!
You can see a full map of Barnes & Noble stockists here, and enter your Zip code to find your nearest store.
*Sorry, Wyoming, we'll get to you!
worksinprogress.co/barnes-no…
Yes!! A few weeks ago I stumbled onto The History Channel’s World War II podcast (narrated by Tom Hanks!) and I’ve been loving it: open.spotify.com/show/033j1c…
I have been trying for months to find a decent original copy of the magazine issue containing perhaps my favorite biographical essay of all time and, well, folks:
Dwarkesh has been working on this interview for years—don’t think there’s a single person he’s wanted to interview more.
If you’re in NYC, highly recommend putting this on and going for a long walk (weather is once again perfect today!)
The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
God loves movement — my favorite excerpt from a recent edition of Bookbear Express, one of my favorite Substacks: open.substack.com/pub/ava/p/… I’ve had to learn this lesson again and again, and imagine I will again in the future.
We’re also hiring a Head of Events for @WorksInProgMag — based in either NYC or SF: stripe.com/careers/listing/h…
Please apply if it seems like a fit!
I’m hiring an NYC-based Managing Editor for @stripepress. The ideal person for this role has substantial editorial experience at a publishing imprint or another publication and is fluent in our universe of ideas, but ideally isn’t my (or our) ideological twin.
Stripe Press is a small team with an unusual amount of autonomy. Right now we’re obsessively focused on the future: expanding our catalogue, rethinking our assumptions about the kinds of books we publish (fiction!?), and thinking about how to connect our readers w/ one another beyond the pop-ups we’ve been hosting since 2022.
Hoping to meet a lot of brilliant people who love books and are excited about building a world-class publishing institution: stripe.com/careers/listing/m…
I’m hiring an NYC-based Managing Editor for @stripepress. The ideal person for this role has substantial editorial experience at a publishing imprint or another publication and is fluent in our universe of ideas, but ideally isn’t my (or our) ideological twin.
Stripe Press is a small team with an unusual amount of autonomy. Right now we’re obsessively focused on the future: expanding our catalogue, rethinking our assumptions about the kinds of books we publish (fiction!?), and thinking about how to connect our readers w/ one another beyond the pop-ups we’ve been hosting since 2022.
Hoping to meet a lot of brilliant people who love books and are excited about building a world-class publishing institution: stripe.com/careers/listing/m…
I think this crowd has got to learn how to ignore things. Not everything needs a rebuttal or a “look at this dummy” moment.
I only know about these two incidents because the revealed preference of too many people in my feed (and worse, me!) is that these things need to be discussed to death.
And for younger people in this industry—especially those like me that do or want to do creative work—I promise you will be better off if you ignore most of what people are chattering about (especially if they’ve already made a ton of $ and are clearly bored…). Get a magazine subscription or five and follow your own nose.
As of today @stripepress officially has *two* full-time editors: myself & @_theplaza!
Eloise comes to us from Folio, where she was a literary agent and nurtured by some of the best in the business.
~1.3 million books later we’re still only *just* getting started, and have huge ambitions to grow. More job postings coming in the next few weeks for NYC-based roles 😌📚
Happy 20th birthday to one of the greatest albums of all time: open.spotify.com/album/3JW4P…
Have been waiting for this anniversary edition (with a bunch of live performances!) to drop for weeks. Miss Amy so much.
And now you can preorder the NOMAD LETTERS (out December 1!): press.stripe.com/nomad-lette…
For years these letters have circulated (at first, unofficially) among investors, acquiring a devoted readership. We wanted to give them a permanent home in print.
Nick and his partner Qais Zakaria’s record is extraordinary. The letters are the account of how they got there, featuring everything from studying Amazon and Costco (Nomad’s defining investments)—to visiting cement plants in Zimbabwe, and beyond.
They’re candid about their mistakes and curious about the forces that shape investors’ behavior: incentives, psychology, and the wisdom (or foolishness!) of the crowd.
Since closing the fund, they’ve devoted their time to philanthropy, a journey Nick recounts in the lovely foreword he wrote for this edition.
I’m thrilled to continue adding to the investing corner of our catalogue, and I can’t think of a better work to follow Poor Charlie’s Almanack. ❣️
NYC — this time I’ll be doing day-of deliveries here (with @_theplaza & @trv_mcl if I can convince them….).
AND we’re also hosting our next NYC pop-up on December 5th.
More soon!
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“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.”
These nuggets & more in this delightful @NewYorker profile of James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Managing Director of Waterstones: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
This is a great question, and one I’ve been mulling over w/ @ollierickman and a few others. TLDR: I *would* like to get into fiction, but I want a killer fiction editor, and we’re not in a rush here. We’re also, funnily enough, not *super* interested in science fiction (for now).
@tamarawinter does Stripe Press have a blanket no fiction policy, or would you be open to a (very, ahem, aligned) fiction anthology proposal?
It’s actually very much to her credit!
And Jessica Tisch is actually the second fabulously wealthy person from a prominent family to become police commissioner of NYC.
The first:
I’m still mourning the cover affectionately known as “Building Man”— but I love where we landed on BUILT TO GROW press.stripe.com/built-to-gr…
The evolution:
When I was little the first career I decided on was “book fairy”.
Took a few decades but here we are 🤭 see you soon SF friends!
Coming soon (tomorrow!) — BUILT TO GROW, our field guide to creating excellent sales orgs, by the inimitable @she_travels.
I have a bunch of these taking up way too much space in our storage rooms. Would love to make some house calls this week to SF startups who are building their sales teams.
Email me (in bio!). And let me know if you’re a @stripe user!
