As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed on the fierce, blooming release of pleasure-pain as the burning tip was applied to an unblemished patch of skin. Her body was a canvas of cruelty, each scar a mark of pride and shame.In sharp and shocking language, Lights On, Rats Out br...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2017"Shockingly intimate."—People Magazine“This gritty account of a woman’s struggle with self-abuse describes nearly gothic suffering. It is also a love story about a dedicated and gifted analyst and his difficult but equally gifted patient. Courageous and unsettling, LeFavour’s memoir is infused with humor and wry insight as well as pain.”—New York Times

“This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can’t offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better.”— Elizabeth GilbertSpanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree LeFavour’s sumptuous fiction debut—a sharply observed comedy of manners and a moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss.A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Tim...

A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor's Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour's Private Means captures the very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss.It's Memorial Day weekend and Alice's beloved dog Maebelle has been lost. Alice stays in New York, desperate to find her dog, while her husband Peter drives north to stay with friends in the Be...

This James Beard Award–finalist cookbook features more than 120 recipes for fifty-four delectable seafood feasts from culinary traditions across the globe.In Fish, acclaimed cookbook author Cree LeFavour celebrates the versatility, ease of preparation, and healthfulness of fish and shellfish. Five chapters are organized by flavor profile, including American, Bistro, Latin, East and South Asian, and North African/Mediterranean. The recipes are grouped into complete m...

The acclaimed author of Fish presents irresistible pork dishes from around the world, with 120 recipes comprising more than fifty meals.Pork celebrates the versatility, deliciousness, and global appeal of "the other white meat." Five chapters are organized by flavor profile, including American, Bistro, Latin, Chinese and Japanese, and South and Southeast Asian. The recipes are grouped into complete meals featuring a main course of pork with a complementary ...

Discover the secrets of New York's legendary Chelsea Market, with a behind-the-scenes look at its famous chefs, grocers, butchers, and cheese mongers.Fruit stands, fish mongers, doughnuts just out of the fryer—New York's Chelsea Market is a paradise of flavors, smells, sights, and sounds. With Chelsea Market Makers, Michael Phillips and Cree LeFavour take readers on a rare guided tour behind the stalls to dish with chefs, grocers, butchers, cheese mongers...

"The humble and incredibly versatile chicken gets its due in [this] compact but thorough handbook on all things bird" by the acclaimed cookbook author (Stan Sagner, New York Daily News).Poulet is more than just a cookbook dedicated to chicken: it is an ode to this worldwide favorite. More than fifty thoughtful recipes cover the globe to breathe new life into the well-loved chicken supper.Five chapters are organized by flavor profile—American, Bistro,...