9 May 2016
After reading just two pages of Emma Cline's luminous novel The Girls - about the young women flocking around a Manson-like cult figure - Random House editor Kate Medina shut her door. "I said, ‘I'm not doing anything else. I'm not talking to anybody. I'm just reading this book,'" she recalls. And when she finished, Medina offered Cline a three-book, reported $2 million deal. (The book hits stores in June.)