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In Conversation

Clair Wills Speaks to Jonathan Galassi About Family Secrets, Reproductive Rights and the Lessons We Can Learn From History

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Editor and Author

A Gathering of Lonely Figures

Austral is Carlos Fonseca's second novel with FSG. The novel was translated by Megan McDowell, whose translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the O. Henry Prize, and have been nominated four times for the...

A conversation between Carlos Fonseca and his editor Ben Brooks about Carlos’s forthcoming novel Austral.

Poetry

Q&A with Jeff Clark

As part of our ongoing celebration of National Poetry Month we spoke with poet, designer, and longtime FSG collaborator Jeff Clark about his creative process, the ins and outs of creating distinctive and powerful book covers, and some of his many and varied influences....

In Conversation

On the Make

A conversation between Justin Torres and his editor, Jenna Johnson, a week after his new novel Blackouts was announced. *** Jenna Johnson: Justin Torres, can you believe it? Here we are again on the brink of publishing your new book. We did this once before and...

Justin Torres and Jenna Johnson In Conversation

Book Recommendations

FSG’s Staff Best Books of 2022

Every year at FSG, we ask our staff to come together and talk about their “Best Books” of the year. This year, we asked them to tell us about an FSG book that they’ll be gifting along with their favorite books from 2022. JOSHUA PORTER ...

For Subscribers

FSG Fall Sweepstakes

Enter below for a chance to win four of our upcoming Fall titles: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li, Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv, If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

Total by Rebecca Miller

In Conversation

Total

The author and award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller returned to short fiction this month for the first time since her collection of stories, Personal Velocity, with the arresting and darkly prescient Total. From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a...

Rebecca Miller and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

Jolene vs. Everyone Else - Carlene Bauer

Essays

Jolene vs. Everybody Else: On Girls They Write Songs About

While some people formed intense relationships with sourdough starters during the pandemic, I got over my Spotify antipathy and started making playlists. Turns out the art of choosing, rejecting, and arranging songs around a theme is just absorbing as it was when I was...

Carlene Bauer

Two Nights in Lisbon

In Conversation

Like Solving a Puzzle

Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone—no warning, no note, not...

Chris Pavone and Daphne Durham In Conversation

Essays

Flying Carpets

“You never asked questions about me,” I said to Nicole at the end of a brief relationship in which we only ever talked about her. “I didn’t have to,” she said, pointing to two of my poetry books on a nearby shelf. “I’ve read...

Poetry in This Body I Wore Diana Goetsch

Richard Howard

Poetry

Richard Howard

Richard Howard, author of Inner Voices and Paper Trail and acclaimed translator, died this week in Manhattan. He was 92. In honor of his memory, we would like to share "Like Most Revelations" from his collection Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003. “Like Most Revelations” It is the movement that...

Zagajewski

Poetry

Russia Comes Into Poland

Through the meadow and hedgerow, village and forest, cavalries on the march, infantries on the march, horses and cannons, old soldiers, young soldiers, children, wiry wolfhounds at full gallop, a blizzard of feathers, sleds, Black Marias, carriages, taxis, even the old cars called Moskwitch come roaring in, and warships and...

Adam Zagajewski

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FSG’s Notable Books of 2021 Sweepstakes

Enter below for a chance to win a set of our books that were featured in the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2021” list: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems by Louise...

Roberto Calasso

Essays

In Memory of Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso died this year in July at the age of 80. His latest publication, The Book of All Books, was the tenth book in a series, a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch—every verse—may offer...

Jonathan Galassi

Aural Texts

Essays

Aural Texts: My First Time

There’s a moment in my upcoming debut novel, Last Resort, when the protagonist, Caleb—SPOILER ALERT—puts clothes in a washer-dryer. “I [...] put my clothes in her washer-dryer.” Perhaps one of the least noteworthy sentences in my book—in any book?—it is now imprinted on my skull possibly forever....

Andrew Lipstein

Crossroads Sweepstakes

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Crossroads Sweepstakes

Enter for a chance to win one of 5 limited-edition prize packages in celebration of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Crossroads. This box includes a copy of the book, a Crossroads t-shirt, a poster, a set of buttons, postcards, and guitar picks.

For Subscribers

Beautiful World, Where Are You Sweepstakes

Enter for a chance to win a limited-edition prize boxes in celebration of Sally Rooney’s new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. This box includes a first edition book, a tote bag, a set of postcards, BWWAY pencils, and a very special Sally Rooney bucket...

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

The Latest

Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads

We are excited to announce Jonathan Franzen's tour dates to support his highly anticipated book, Crossroads, which hits shelves October 5, 2021. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen...

Bookstore and Event Tour

Poetry

Under and Over

Often I wake in the night, or the cat wakes me, and since I have been trying to break the habit of reaching for my phone—that express route to “the portal” (per Patricia Lockwood)—what do I do? Sometimes a yoga-inspired (and undoubtedly inauthentic) body...

Maureen N. McLane

In Conversation

Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem

Every April, we observe National Poetry Month by honoring how integral poetry is to our past, present, and future. But this year, we wanted to expand the celebration outwards, and spotlight other organizations and their work in keeping poetry vital, alive, and accessible for...

In Conversation with Malcolm Tariq