The Fat Radish co-owners Ben Towill and Phil Winser (who are both self-taught cooks) have created a cookbook, The Fat Radish Kitchen Diaries, comprised of one hundred fan-favorite recipes from their uncomplicated, slightly British and constantly evolving menu. Among the list of good eats are recipes for carrot and avocado ... More

Philip Hook has spent more than three decades honing his innate knowledge of the art world. The London-based art expert and author began his career with Christie’s in 1973 before landing at Sotheby’s 20 years later, where he currently serves as a board member and the company’s senior director of ... More

What’s better than a cookbook of recipes and personal stories from famed chefs like Marcus Samuelsson, David Chang and Wolfgang Puck? How about if buying that cookbook helped to provide children around the world with health care, clean water, nutrition and more. Hilary Gumbel has been a consultant and volunteer for ... More

When Keith Richards’ hardcover confessional Life made it to the New York Times bestseller list in 2010 and hung on for 22 weeks, it showed the publishing industry just how lucrative a hard-livin’ rocker’s tell-all could be. Baby boomers can now air guitar to the pages of Steven Tyler, Sammy ... More

When Libraire De France shuttered in Rockefeller Center five years ago, the U.S. lost the only French bookstore of its kind—but that’s all about to change. On September 27, the French Embassy’s cultural counselor, Antonin Baudry, will open the doors to a new Francophone-focused bookshop and reading room on Fifth ... More

Five years ago, frustrated with her acting career, Oxford-educated Jessie Burton decided it was time to try a novel.  She was drawn to the sight of an intricate 17th century dollhouse in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum owned by the wife of a wealthy merchant, and she began to imagine that young woman’s world. The ... More

Jamie Bissonnette’s not your average chef, so it’s not too surprising that his first cookbook, The Charcuterie Cookbook: Exceptional Cured Meats to Make and Serve at Home, isn’t so run of the mill either. What Bissonnette, the peripatetic chef at Toro (New York and Boston) and Coppa (Boston), is offering readers ... More

"I had to go places inside myself I found unendurable," Gail Sheehy tells me, looking tiny and incredibly vulnerable. We’re sitting in her cluttered office/apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, eating tuna salad as we discuss the writing of her memoir, Daring: My Passages. The phone never stops ringing; a ... More

Notoriously private celebrities let the public in on profoundly personal moments from their lives in the new book The Art of Discovery. Poignant imagery from famed photographer Jeff Vespa mixed with the shockingly honest recollections from each star makes this new release a must-read. Among the many stories, Kurt Russell ... More

In the world we live in now, it’s hardly short of a miracle that one debut novelist would come out on top in a fight with Amazon—the company whose annual revenue is larger than half of the countries on Earth. But Edan Lepucki, a bubbly blonde 33-year-old from L.A., ... More