Boris Kachka, who writes about book publishing for New York magazine, has sold a book about Roger Straus and his mighty publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, to the Thomas Dunne Books imprint of St. Martin's Press. The fact that St. Martin's is, like FSG, owned by Macmillan does not worry Mr. Kachka. On the contrary, he said ...

New York publishing reporter Boris Kachka is getting ready to write a book about Farrar, Straus and Giroux, according to a newsletter issued by Dystel & Goderich, the agency repping him on the project. According to the description provided in the newsletter, which was sent to various editors today, Mr. Kachka's book is tentatively called Hothouse. It will tell ...

In the paper today, the first half of Pub Crawl focuses on the layoffs that shook up Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Monday as a result of the 64 job cuts ordered by the C.E.O. of the group's parent company, Macmillan. As of press time, FSG publisher Jonathan Galassi had declined to issue any kind of statement ...

Why are magazine companies cutting their Web staffs? According to John Koblin, in the current climate "it appears a portion of the magazine world, which was never a quick adapter to the Web anyway, is responding by shoving their Web people right off the boat first. 'You’re never going to get the traffic that really matters,' said one publisher ...