Jeffrey Eugenides stopped by the FSG offices a couple weeks ago, in advance of his book tour for The Marriage Plot. We used the opportunity to let his Facebook fans ask a few questions, some of which are featured in the video below.
Q. In the introduction for My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead you speak of the concept of a “love story” and provide a selection of short stories in that vein. Which novels do you believe also fit the mold of a “love story,” and did they influence your writing of The Marriage Plot? (more…)
At BookExpo America, the annual conference for booksellers, librarians and publishers, novelist Jeffrey Eugenides previewed The Marriage Plot, his much anticipated follow-up to Middlesex. (Astute Work in Progress readers may remember his conversation with editor Jonathan Galassi from our debut issue.)
The author shared the stage with Mindy Kaling, Diane Keaton, and Charlaine Harris. (more…)
The last week of April means two things in New York: inclement weather and the wonderful PEN World Voices Festival. There’s an entire week of diverse programming with celebrated authors from all corners of the globe, but the audience favorite would have to be the Moth storytelling night.
This year Jonathan Franzen shared an autobiographical anecdote about the dangers of using your life in your writing: (more…)
Last week brought the good news that Eliza Griswold’s The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islamhas been named a finalist in the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism. The winner will be announced June 7th. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this previously unseen recording of Eliza at the Russian Samovar for our FSG Reading Series.
To coincide with David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary, he’s asking readers to create their own entries in the style of the book. Here’s a preview of what we mean:
Two of our writers contacted us about creating a video for the “It Gets Better” national campaign to educate and help struggling LGBT teenagers. Here, Justin Spring and Wendy Moffat talk about the trials Sam Steward and E. M. Forster faced in their lives, and how they rose above them.
We are thrilled to feature New Yorker “20 Under 40″ writer David Bezmozgis reading from his forthcoming novel The Free World (April, 2011). His previous book, Natasha, has become something of a favorite around the offices.
Ian Frazier recently read from his new book Travels in Siberia at the Russian Samovar in New York City.
Some of you may remember Frazier from his bestseller Great Plains; others may remember him from those New Yorker pieces that make you laugh so hard your mouth hurts. (“The New Poetry” from Lamentations of the Father is a favorite of mine.)
FSG hosts a reading series at the Russian Samovar in New York, most recently with Lydia Davis and David Means. Produced by two of our assistant editors, Chantal Clarke and Mark Krotov, the readings occur at irregular intervals throughout the year. Homemade vodka is often consumed.
Here, writer and translator Lydia Davis reads new work, including a short piece that, due to its own logic, can never be completed.
We are very excited about Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, his first novel since The Corrections. He recently stopped by our office to discuss the ideas behind his book, why reading is the opposite of multitasking, and how very odd it can be for authors to appear on video.
FSG hosts a reading series at the Russian Samovar in New York, most recently with Lydia Davis and David Means. Produced by two of our assistant editors, Chantal Clarke and Mark Krotov, the readings occur at irregular intervals throughout the year. Homemade vodka is often consumed.
Here, David Means reads “The Blade,” a short story from his recent collection The Spot.
