Penguin Press

In this morning's paper, we said Roger Lowenstein is "considering" writing a book about the banking crisis that tore through Wall Street last week. Turns out he had his mind made up! According to the Publishers Marketplace dealwire, Six Days That Shook the World, "a look at last week on Wall Street and in Washington, illuminating the origins of the crisis," has been sold to Ann Godoff at The Penguin Press.

The announcement doesn't say when the book will come out. If it weren't Penguin Press, the tentative subtitle—which limits its wingspan to just the past week—might indicate that the book was going to get the "crash" treatment, meaning Mr.  read more »

Scott Moyers gave up his job as editor-in-chief of the Penguin Press just over a year ago to become the number two man at the Wylie Agency. It was a classic path, one that many editors before him had followed, but it nevertheless carried certain connotations—sort of like when a beloved professor gives up his or her work and takes a higher paying job as a university administrator, or worse, a researcher at a private think tank. Although Mr. Moyers at the time sounded excited about his new job and confident that the work would not be so different or less intellectually stimulating than what he was used to in editorial, there was still a bit of grieving among editors in this city when he announced his decision.  read more »

Dan Barber, the chef and restaurateur who operates the celebrated Greenwich Village restaurant Blue Hill, has found a publisher for that book of food stories he was shopping last month. According to his literary agent David Black-- whom Mr. Barber met when he came to dinner at Blue Hill-- the book was acquired by the Penguin Press about a week after the proposal went out.

The Penguin Press, one of the most prestigious publishers of non-fiction in town, is a logical home for Mr. Barber, a vocal advocate of sustainable agriculture and locally-grown food whose intellectual predelictions are not dissimilar from those of Michael Pollan, who is also published there.  read more »