Boris Kachka: Hothouse

With Hothouse, New York magazine writer Kachka digs into the history of and personalities behind great American publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Kachka is unafraid of gossip, and lit geeks will thrill to anecdotes about characters like Susan Sontag and Jack Kerouac, but the book also has a clear sense of where business and art intersected in the latter half of the 20th century.