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DBNY de Daniel Boulud & Andrew Friedman

A memoir from one of the most beloved and acclaimed chefs in the world, one who changed the culinary landscape forever.

DBNY
by Daniel Boulud & Andrew Friedman
Grand Central, Fall 2027
(via David Black Literary)

Chef Daniel Boulud’s career to date has spanned four decades, more than a dozen restaurants worldwide, and the mentorship of countless chefs, many of whom have become household names in their own right. He first trained under a succession of influential figures in his native France, but as readers will learn in this book, it’s been his relationship with New York City, and by extension America, that has been the greatest catalyst for his seemingly boundless ideas, energy, and success. As the fortieth anniversary of his moving to New York City approaches, Danie is ready to tell his story, and that of his times, mingling it with a

celebration of his adopted home.

Through his memoir, Boulud will expore the value of New York City and America to culinarians generally, and to him in particular, and how incorporating the panoply of cultures and cuisines here transformed his food from resolutely French to something … well, still unmistakably French, but more expansive and modern, and made him a better and more universally relatable chef. He will trace the modern American food and restaurant movement from the point of view of a Frenchman who came to the US, helped change food and restaurants, and trained generations of chefs. He will examine how American ingenuity and lust for commerce positively impacted him as a businessperson and operator, inspiring him to constantly explore new concepts, and opening his mind to new ways of serving quantities of guests quality food in numbers that would be inconceivable in his home country.

He will give a firsthand personal and professional accounting of living through multiple economic downturns and recoveries in the Reagan years, the Clinton years, after 9/11, and the COVID pandemic, and discuss the American experience, and yes the American dream, from the point of view of an immigrant. And he will give his thoughts and guidance for how to grow a business, empire, and team while staying true to your defining personal values.

Daniel Boulud is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, and Dubai. He is the author of several cookbooks and is best known for his eponymous restaurant Daniel, opened in New York City in 1993, which currently holds one Michelin star.

Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession (2018), and producer and host of the independent podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs, currently in its sixth year. He is also the author of Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition (2009), co-editor of the internationally popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs, and co-author of more than twentyfive cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of the United States’ finest and most well-known chefs. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor within the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the Culinary Institute of America. An avid tennis player, he co- authored American tennis star James Blake’s New York Times bestselling memoir Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (2007), and was for several years a TENNIS magazine editor-at-large. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

COGNITIVE EXTINCTION de Nita Farahany

A sobering look at how digital life is eroding our thinking, our freedom, and what it means to be human―and how to reclaim what we’ve lost.

COGNITIVE EXTINCTION:
Saving Human Thought While We Still Can
by Nita Farahany
St. Martin’s Press, March 2027

Something is disappearing from human life: our ability to think freely, engage meaningfully with others, and be present in our own lives. Can we adapt to the modern world without losing the qualities that make us human?

In COGNITIVE EXTINCTION, Nita Farahany, one of the world’s foremost scholars on the ethical, legal, and societal implications of emerging technologies, names what is happening: we are losing our cognitive liberty, the ability to trust our perceptions and govern ourselves. We can sense this intuitively, but we don’t recognize that these struggles present a dire threat to our institutions and the common ground beneath us all―the cognitive commonwealth itself.

After years of questioning these alarming trends, she found answers when she least expected it: through her own grief. When her daughter, Callista, passed away, Farahany’s cognitive world collapsed. As she tried to make sense of what was happening, she discovered that the mental capacities she had lost mirrored those being hollowed out across society through digital immersion.

What has been degraded, Farahany argues, can still be rebuilt. That begins with each of us. We must resist the temptation to sleepwalk into cognitive extinction and collectively recognize that our mental freedom is at stake. Only then can we reclaim a world in which humans find meaning and flourish.

Deeply felt and rigorously researched, COGNITIVE EXTINCTION is a clarion call for all of us to pay attention to what we’re losing―while we can still feel ourselves losing it.

“This may be the most important book written about technology, human flourishing, and what we need to protect to become fully ourselves.” ―Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Nita Farahany is a legal scholar and philosopher who studies the societal implications of emerging technologies. She is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and the founding director of Duke Science & Society. She is a frequent speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Economic Forum. Her previous book, The Battle for Your Brain, has shaped global conversations on cognitive liberty and mental privacy.

DIE UNVERSCHÄMTE FRAU de Miriam Stein

A both personal and socio-critical examination of toxic shame – over our sexuality, our bodies, our origins – and how to free ourselves from it.

DIE UNVERSCHÄMTE FRAU
[The Shameless Woman]
by Miriam Stein
Goldmann/PRH Germany, September 2026

Being able to feel shame is key to our survival as a social animal. It’s a clever little mechanism that ensures we follow social norms. But whereas men usually seem capable of dealing with it relatively well, women often overdo it. It’s a powerful emotion, and from childhood onwards it’s like a toxic friend in your ear, controlling your decisions, keeping you in line, and telling you that you aren’t empathetic / confident / slim / feminine / smooth / natural enough. No matter how emancipated a woman you are, thousands of years of patriarchy aren’t something you can shake off just like that.

Bestselling author and journalist Miriam Stein has known all about shame ever since she was a little girl. In fact, she was practically born with it: in 1977, someone left newborn Miriam on a South Korean street corner in a shoe box, wrapped in newspaper. Was her mother not allowed to keep her? Was she ashamed of her pregnancy? Meanwhile, Miriam has gone through puberty, experienced her own pregnancy, survived career setbacks and relationship crises, and even seen off perimenopause – the female ‘shame supernova’ par excellence. In « The Shameless Woman », she sets out to expose the many false narratives that darken so many women’s lives, and to forge a path towards liberation.

• For fans of Miranda July, Glennon Doyle and Gillian Anderson

Miriam Yung Min Stein was born in South Korea in 1977 and subsequently adopted by a German family. She has performed on stage with Christoph Schlingensief and Rimini Protokoll, and is an acclaimed culture journalist. Her bestselling Die gereizte Frau (‘The irritated woman’), about the menopause, turned what was largely a taboo topic into one openly discussed in public. In her most recent book, Weise Frauen (‘Wise women’), she went in search of female wisdom. She lives with her family in Berlin.

THREAT ACTORS de Mitch Moxley et Johnny Liesman

A quarter-billion-dollar crypto heist, a violent kidnapping, a network of teenage cybercriminals, and the rise of the Gen Z Mafia.

THREAT ACTORS
by Mitch Moxley & Johnny Liesman
Random House, Fall 2028
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Not too long ago, responsible adults worried that adolescents who spent hours playing video games like Grand Theft Auto were being indoctrinated into a world numbed to violence and misogyny. What flew under the radar were the late-night sessions on less violent multiplayer games like Minecraft and Roblox that primed kids for something just as unsettling. There, kids could learn to cheat, hack, and steal in online marketplaces selling “rare” usernames and game add-ons, earning an “education” that seamlessly propelled them into the higherstakes cryptocurrency world and hijacking digital wallets—sometimes in a matter of seconds. Threat Actors follows one such group of young men as they graduate from scripted phone scams into threats and beatings, and from “small” seven-figure thefts to the heist of a quarter billion dollars from an unsuspecting middle-aged investor. They are members of “the Com,” or “the Community,” a fast-growing online collective of young criminals trained at home and emerging as a brutal and organized 21st-century Mafia.

THREAT ACTORS (a term used by law enforcement and investigators to describe this growing class of cybercriminals) follows the group’s most notorious crime down every rabbit hole, revealing who the “threat actors” behind the senseless usernames are, examining how an anonymous young investigator on X helped the FBI unravel the mystery of their identities, and asking who’s really to blame for the conditions that guided them down the path to crime.

Mitch Moxley is a writer who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and other publications. He is the co-creator, writer, and host of the podcast Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe (Audible Originals, October 2026), and author of the memoir Apologies to My Censor, about the six years he lived in China.

Johnny Liesman is a New York-based investigative journalist and producer who codeveloped and reported the Audible Originals series Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe and is producing an upcoming podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. He’s spent countless late nights in the Telegram channels of the Com—and grew up in the same online world as many of the book’s subjects.

HOW LONG DOES IT ACTUALLY TAKE de Christi Newrutzen & Michelle Rutz

Written by viral content creator Christi Newrutzen and her mom, psychologist Dr. Michelle Rutz, this practical and psychologically grounded book teaches readers how to close the gap between intending to act and actually beginning.

HOW LONG DOES IT ACTUALLY TAKE
by Christi Newrutzen and Michelle Rutz
Little, Brown Spark, Spring 2028
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Inspired by Christi’s videos, where she times herself doing commonly avoided tasks, Christi has helped her friends organize their bathrooms, tupperware drawers and much more.

Expanding on the method that has helped millions, the book gives a practical way to challenge the perseptions that fuel procrastination, showing that starting might be easier than we thought.

The book introduces three steps—challenge the story, shrink the monster, reflect with real data—that are at the core of why asking this simple question helps.

Christi Newrutzen is the creator of the widely popular “How Long Does It Actually Take?” series, where she times everyday tasks people commonly procrastinate—everything from cleaning and organizing, to making appointments and tackling projects that she, her friends, and her family have avoided for years.

Dr. Michelle Rutz holds a Doctorate in Psychology and is a member of the American Psychological Association. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Education, two teaching credentials, and a bachelor’s degree in Human Development. Michelle’s impressive educational background, combined with the richness of her lived experience, brings legitimacy and depth of wisdom to Christi’s creative messaging of the psychology of procrastination and tools to overcome its negative impact.