NY News from Publishers Lunch

Daughter of President Ronald Reagan and nonfiction author Patti Davis is releasing a self-published novel today, Till Human Voices Wake Us, and will follow shortly thereafter with two more works of fiction. A press release pitches it as "an exciting, liberating experience [that] allowed her to tell a story she had been developing for many years and present it just as she had conceived it."

With Andrew Cuomo signing to write his own book for HarperCollins, the NYT suggests that the company is "backing away from publishing" New York Post columnist Fredric U. Dicker's biography of the New York governor. But the publisher indicated to the paper, "Harper does have a book under contract with Fred Dicker."

McNally Jackson bookstore owner Sarah McNally is opening another store around the corner on Mulberry Street focused on what she calls "the life of the mind," New York Magazine notes. Called Goods for the Study, it will feature "new and vintage furniture and office supplies."


And from Shelf Awareness

McNally Jackson Branches Out into 'Goods for the Study'

From the "Shopping" section of New York magazine, in its entirety:
Sarah McNally, owner of the beloved Nolita bookstore McNally Jackson, is unveiling a second shop, just around the corner, dedicated not to literature but to what she broadly calls 'the life of the mind.' Opening May 5, Goods for the Study (234 Mulberry St., nr. Prince St.; 212-219-2789) will stock new and vintage furniture and office supplies aimed at giving work spaces a more 'distinct character.' The current selection includes a cherrywood drafting table ($700), Milanese oak-and-leather desk chairs ($2,000), maple-wood tape dispensers by British designer Simon Donald ($42), hand-bound notebooks from Germany's Bindewerk (from $9), and scissors made by samurai-sword craftsmen ($64)."