An in-house scoop: Bookforum editor Chris Lehmann has informed us that the ink has dried on his book deal with Metropolitan Books. The working title of Lehmann’s latest—a follow-up to his 2010 Rich People Things—is The Money Cult and will be edited by Sara Bershtel. Lehmann says the book is “an effort to account for the missing reform tradition in American Protestantism, while also accounting for the more irrational, quasi-spiritual features of our civic worship of the market economy.” Lehmann adds: “I’m delighted to be taking this project on, since it combines two long-standing obsessions. And I’m really excited to be working with Sara, an impassioned and exacting editor who’s helping to sustain the best traditions in American publishing. Just knowing that she’s working on this project makes me feel like a better writer than I probably am.”