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Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer-winning restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times and the author of Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real LA, has died. In her moving appreciation, food writer Ruth Reichl states that Gold “gave us the keys to a hidden city.” More tributes can be found |http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-jonathan-gold-no-paywall-20180722-story.html#|here|.
After an “eight-way auction,” William Morrow has bought the North American rights to the debut novel by Elisabeth Thomas, a Yale alumnus who is currently an archivist for the Museum of Modern Art. Morrow says that Catherine House, a contemporary fairy tale set at a university in a forest, is a“gothic-infused” tale “told through the eyes of Ines, a dangerously curious, rebellious first-year who uncovers a dark secret beneath the school’s promise of prestige.” A German rights deal has also been closed, and a number of other international publishing deals reportedly are in the works.
Publisher’s Weekly has a roundup of Trump staffers’ (and ex-staffers’) book deals and, for those who haven’t published yet, rumored book deals.
W.W. Norton will publish Jeff Sharlet’s next book, The Darkness Show: A Memoir of Other People’s Lives, in 2019. According to Sharlet, the book is “a reported book on poverty of the ordinary, extraordinary, and spiritual varieties, an attempt at making visible that which power attempts to render invisible. It is a book borne of despair—that of everyday men and women working bad jobs or living without jobs; that of the destitute and the soon-to-be-killed and the families of the already-murdered; that of all those who live in fear of powers far greater than they can muster; and that of the roughly two years in my own life documented within, a period that began with my father’s heart attack and ended with mine. My father survived, as did I, obviously. Not everyone in The Darkness Show does. But most of them—most of us—endure.”