Boris Kachka has covered the trade publishing beat for more than thirteen years at New York Magazine, and one could look at his forthcoming book Hothouse, which S&S will publish August 6, as a rite of passage akin to a Bar Mitzvah. The advance attention from booksellers and publishing types for the book, a history of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the two figures, Roger Straus and Robert Giroux, who loomed largest over the publishing house’s six decades, has been almost uniformly rapturous, garnering the No. 1 slot for August’s Indie Next list. But Hothouse‘s predicament begins with its declaration […]