On the cover of this month's Indie Next list is HOTHOUSE, The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus & Giroux, by Boris Kachka
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"Roger Straus, editor and publisher at FSG, was loved, loathed, feared, and admired, and the publishing house with which he came of age was—and still is—perhaps the mightiest producer of quality literature in America. Hothouse perfectly captures the often uneasy alliance between commerce and culture. Through anecdotes and firsthand reminiscences, Kachka weaves a compelling and sometimes hilarious history of 20th century American publishing featuring the geniuses, the egotists, and the neurotics—namely the most important voices in writing and publishing—during a golden era of American literature."
—Mark LaFramboise, Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington, DC
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Tracy Guzeman speaks about her new novel, THE GRAVITY OF BIRDS, about which Nancy Nelson from Sunriver Books & Music in Sunriver, OR says: "At a lake retreat in New York State, Thomas Bayber, a young artist with great promise, meets the Kessler family. The family's teenage daughters, Alice and Natalie, become enamored with Thomas, and jealousy unalterably affects the lives of all three for the next 40 years... The reader slowly becomes aware of the connecting threads that bind these characters together through the years, and that leads to a surprising and satisfying conclusion."
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 "While working in a deli, a young Paterniti encountered what was then considered the finest cheese in the world — Paramo de Guzman. Too poor at the time to buy a taste, Paterniti instead vowed to one day meet this fascinating, magical cheese again. Years later, with family in tow, he made good on his vow by traveling to the rustic Spanish village where the cheese is produced. Enter Ambrosio, the brilliant, salt-of-the-earth cheesemaker with an infection zest for life and a love for creating something simply and beautifully. Paterniti spent the next decade embedded in the rural village, playign Sancho Panza to Ambriosio's Don Quixote while piecing together a meandering melange of stores about food, flavor, love, loss, betrayal, and revenge. I got lost in this book!”
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