Mort de Peter Matthiessen

L’écrivain et naturaliste américain Peter Matthiessen est décédé samedi à l’âge de 86 ans.

Cofondateur du magazine littéraire The Paris Review, il a vécu à Paris et est le seul auteur avoir remporté deux fois le National Book Award, l’un des plus prestigieux prix littéraires américains.

Son ouvrage le plus connu, LE LÉOPARD DES NEIGES, relate son voyage au Népal avec un fameux zoologiste. Un journal de bord dans lequel il apparait très vite que Peter Matthiessen vit cette expédition comme une aventure plus spirituelle que scientifique.

La triste nouvelle a été annoncée par le New York Times. La coïncidence veut que le magazine du même journal lui avait dédié un longue article juste avant sa mort.

Son dernier roman, IN PARADISE, sortira demain, comme annoncé sur Publishers Weekly.

Un gâteau d’exception contre votre carte de visite !

Pour annoncer le prochain livre du grand pâtissier français Dominique Ansel, the Gernert Company a concocté une initiative très gourmande :

To raise awareness about the incredible cookbook in the works by French pastry chef Dominique Ansel, Rebecca Gardner will be bringing with her to LIBF actual samples of one Dominique’s creations.  

In exchange for a business card, the first 75 people who come to table 31K in the LIBF Agents Center on Wednesday, April 9th between 10:00am and 4:00pm will get a delightful goodie to take away.

To be clear, it will not be Dominique’s most famous creation – The CronutTM – but it will be something delicious that can be enjoyed on the spot or can be easily transported home.  

Une dégustation à ne pas manquer !

patissierDOMINIQUE ANSEL: THE SECRET RECIPES

Unforgettable Desserts from the World’s Most Celebrated Bakery

Photographs by Thomas Schauer

Simon & Schuster – 28 October 2014

Creator of the CronutTM , the Cookie Shot, and proprietor of New York’s #1 rated bakery, 

Dominique Ansel and his pastry creations have been commented on 

in more than forty countries and a wide range of major media outlets.

« The most fêted pastry chef in the world. »  -The Daily Mail UK

Coming this autumn from Simon & Schuster is Dominique Ansel’s very first cookbook in which he blends his unique and widely-acclaimed philosophy with eye-popping photography and recipes that will enable bakers of many levels to make some of his incredible creations at home. He will share the recipe for The CronutTM – Dominique’s unbelievable marriage of a croissant and a donut that drives people to line up for hours outside of his Soho bakery every morning, has spurred dozens of copy cats, and has been covered by the international media, including but not limited to the UK, France, Japan, Spain, Italy, Germany and many more.  Last month Dominique introduced the Cookie Shot – a cookie baked in the form of a glass that is served with a shot of milk inside (photo and link to further news below) – that has become his latest, queue-forming creation.

Specifications for DOMINIQUE ANSEL: THE SECRET RECIPES

  • 208 pages
  • 31 recipes
  • Four color illustrations and photos throughout on nearly every page
  • 8-3/8″ x 10-7/8″
  • Hardcover and eBook
  • US price – $35.00

A full manuscript, photography samples and a comprehensive recipe list will be ready for review in May but in the meantime, you can get a sense of Dominique’s style and work here:  http://dominiqueansel.com/.

An incredible and quickly growing young talent in the food world, this should be considered by any serious cookery list.

Breaking News !

Pocket Jeunesse publiera le premier album pour 4/7 ans écrit par Harlan Coben !

L’accord vient juste d’être conclu.

Après s’être adressé avec succès aux jeunes adultes en créant le personnage de Mickey Bolitar, héros de la série dont Pocket Jeunesse a déjà publié les deux premiers volumes (le troisième est annoncé pour une publication prochaine), le « maître de vos nuits blanches » exerce cette fois son talent en proposant au tout jeune lectorat un texte plein de tendresse, illustré avec brio par l’artiste américaine Leah Tinari.

FLASH BOYS, A WALL STREET REVOLT : le nouveau Michael Lewis enfin dévoilé

Mise à jour du 16 juin 2015: droits cédés au Sousol

Tenu secret pendant des mois, le nouveau titre de Michael Lewis, auteur du bestseller THE BIG SHORT (LE CASSE DU SIÈCLE, Sonatine Éditions), que Brad Pitt et Paramount Picture veulent porter sur grand écran, est sorti hier aux États-Unis.

La publication a été annoncée par un article du New York Magazine et par un reportage de CBS News.

FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT

Michael Lewis

WW Norton, March 31st 2014

If you still imagine Wall Street as a bunch of alpha males standing on trading floor and shouting at each other…you need to forget that image.

That world is dead. Now, the world’s money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your money don’t know what’s happening to it. And the very few who do aren’t about to tell – because they’re making a killing.  This is a market that’s rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would do anything to gain a microsecond. Blink, and you’ll miss it.

In FLASH BOYS, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It’s the story of what it’s like to declare war on some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. It’s about taking on an entire system. And it’s about the madness that has taken hold of the financial markets today. And at its center a firm called IEX that has created a separate exchange where everyone — fast or super fast — is safe to trade.  And the story is told with Michael Lewis’s usual incredible flair best described by Malcolm Gladwell: “I read Michael Lewis for the same reason I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like.”

Rights have already been sold in the UK (Penguin) and Germany (Campus).