Beau Friedlander at Context Books has made a deal with Esquire magazine to publish The Big Book of Esquire Fiction as the first in a series of anthologies based on magazine features, to be edited by fiction editor Adrienne Miller....Perseus has bought a bio by Justin Martin (whose most recent subject was Alan Greenspan) on consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader. World rights were bought from agent Lisa Swayne; Merloyd Lawrence will edit the book for her own imprint.