This month marks the highly anticipated arrival of One Thousand Vines from internationally celebrated sommelier and Decanter Rising Star Pascaline Lepeltier. Originally published in French as Mille Vignes in 2022 by Hachette Pratique, this ambitious book answers the important questions about wine and offers key tools to better understand it, all from a uniquely philosophical perspective. Feted by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), this groundbreaking volume has been praised by industry experts and media outlets such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, International Wine Review, JancisRobinson.com, Library Journal, and The New York Times, which called it “extraordinary,” declaring that “wine lovers who read this book will deeply, richly profit.”
Chronicle Books Acquires Kristen Morita’s Mochitsuki
Kristen Morita has sold Mochitsuki: Sweet and Savory Mochi Recipes from My Japanese American Kitchen to Chronicle Books. Capturing the dazzling spectrum of this beloved food in a collection of recipes that reflect both a deep understanding of tradition and an eye for innovation, the forthcoming cookbook will showcase the rice-based staple of Japanese cuisine and culture in a variety of forms for a variety of occasions: sweet or savory; baked, steamed, broiled, grilled, boiled, or stuffed; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, or dessert. Founder of the culinary website Mochi Mommy, Morita will instruct readers how to make mochi magic in the home kitchen with minimal fuss and maximum fun in this charming and informative offering.
DK Publishing Buys Kyle and Katina Connaughton's Single Thread Cookbook
SingleThread — the three-Michelin-starred restaurant run by chef-farmer couple Kyle and Katina Connaughton in Healdsburg, California — will unpack the wonders of its amazing menu and the philosophy behind it in a new book SingleThread: A Seasonal and Intentional Approach to Food and Hospitality from the Celebrated Sonoma Restaurant and Farm. World English rights were pre-empted by the Penguin Random House imprint DK Publishing. Along with co-writer Georgia Freedman, the Connaughtons will share their unique story and vision for growing, sourcing, and preparing food, offering 120 recipes, 200 tantalizing photos, and 15 botanical illustrations to inspire readers interested in cooking seasonally, using local ingredients, and sourcing their food in environmentally and ethically responsible ways.
David Bockino Sells Over/Under to Pegasus Books
Pegasus Books has won the rights to publish David Bockino’s Over/Under: An Unexpected History of Sports Betting, which seeks to change the conversation around the fast-growing and controversial gambling industry. In the forthcoming book, Bockino will advance the theory that gambling has served as the main catalyst for the multi-billion-dollar professional sports industry as he takes readers along a rollicking journey through the shadowy gambling halls of 19th century New York, the glitz and glamour of Churchill Downs in the 1920s, the twinkling lights of Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s, the makeshift offices of offshore Caribbean sportsbooks in the 1990s, and beyond.
W.W. Norton Acquires Jason Mark's Remember the Earth
Jason Mark has reached an agreement with W.W. Norton to publish Remember the Earth: How Our Memories of Nature Can Protect the Planet, an environmental manifesto examining the concept of the “shifting baseline syndrome.” Familiar to scientists but not yet the general public, the shifting baseline syndrome describes the human tendency to forget past ecological circumstances and heedlessly accept new, damaging conditions as normal. Explaining how this amnesia undermines attempts to conserve wildlife, protect nature, and ensure a stable climate, Mark will share simple but powerful memory tools to overcome this nefarious problem in the new book, which was acquired by Matt Weiland, one of the publishing industry’s most respected editors dedicated to environmental topics.
Alison Entrekin’s New Guimarães Rosa Translation Sold in Pair of Auctions
Legendary Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa will be reintroduced to the Anglophone world thanks to the sale of a new English version of his epic 1956 novel Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands). Alison Entrekin’s groundbreaking translation of this literary masterpiece will be published under the title Vastlands: The Crossing by Simon & Schuster in the United States and Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, with both houses acquiring the right via auction at a combined six-figure total. Seven years in the making, Entrekin’s translation is the first to capture the unique wordplay and invented language long held to be “untranslatable” in what many believe to be one of the greatest works of Latin American literature, a sweeping saga of honor and revenge hailed as the “Brazilian Ulysses” told in the tradition of chivalric tales and set in that country’s high inland plateaus at the turn of the twentieth century.
Nicole Taylor Sells The Maroon House to Abrams
Nicole Taylor has reached an agreement with Abrams to publish The Maroon House: My Glorious World of Cooking & Entertaining, an inspiring guide to hosting gatherings of family and friends, offering an invigorating approach to orchestrating meals that nourish the soul. A James Beard-nominated author whose Juneteenth cookbook Watermelon and Red Birds became the smash-hit of summer 2022, Taylor’s forthcoming volume will spotlight cooking and entertaining in the modern Black home, demonstrating the intimate and essential connection between culinary experiences and interior design while offering a proud expression of Black joy and a testament to the enduring importance of cultural heritage.
New York Times Spotlights Taking Care Paperback Release
Earlier this month the New York Times Book Review placed Sarah DiGregorio’s Taking Care on its Paperback Row as a recommended new read, applauding how her powerful and comprehensive history and survey of the nursing profession “reminds us that perhaps more than ever before, nursing is politics.” In the time since its original hardcover release, the book has accumulated additional accolades from Vanity Fair (“This probing history of nurses situates the profession as radical, necessary health care — but plagued, too, by structural inequities from sexism to racism”) and the NYT Book Review (“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect … This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer”).
Edward McClelland’s Chorus of the Union Published by Pegasus Books
Edward McClelland’s illuminating new history Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation came out today from Pegasus Books. Dubbed “a wise examination of America’s divisive antebellum politics” by Publishers Weekly, it has also been praised by Harvard University professor John Stauffer as “beautifully conceived and deeply researched … a sheer pleasure to read” and by Lincoln scholar Thomas A. Horrocks, who has predicted that “this splendid book will become a classic source for understanding these two complicated men.” It is McClelland’s eighth book, along with a previous look at presidential politics in Young Mr. Obama (Bloomsbury, 2010) and his most recent release Midnight in Vehicle City (Beacon, 2021), about the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936, the most significant labor dispute in American history.
Update, June 26, 2024: In a lengthy review of Chorus of the Union published today, the Wall Street Journal observes that “McClelland vividly brings to life the drama” of the seven pivotal Lincoln-Douglas debates which led up to the 1860 presidential election.
Lynnette Marrero’s A Quick Drink Published by Abrams
Together with co-authors Ivy Mix and Megan Krigbaum, this week Lynnette Marrero served up A Quick Drink: The Speed Rack Guide to Winning Cocktails for Any Mood, an unconventional and highly useful manual for home cocktail-making. This exciting release features more than 100 cocktail recipes from participants in Speed Rack, the global all-women bartending competition founded by Mix and Marrero that has raised over $1,500,000 for breast cancer charities (to which the pair also intends to donate a portion of the book’s royalties). A Quick Drink arrives during the middle of Speed Rack’s Season 12 tour leading up to the national finals at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans on July 21.
