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		<title>Janet Malcolm &amp; Ileene Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Ileene Smith: The title essay of your recently published volume—Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers—is an ingenious portrait of the artist David Salle that is taught in journalism schools. At what point did you decide to construct the piece as a series of “false starts”? Janet Malcolm: In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/05/janet-malcolm-ileene-smith/</link>
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		<title>Brian McGreevy &amp; Sean McDonald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Sean McDonald: How surreal has it been to watch your debut novel, Hemlock Grove, become a TV series? How closely does it track what you imagined when you were writing? Brian McGreevy: There has been no shortage of interesting or disconcerting moments; for instance, standing in a physical location that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/05/brian-mcgreevy-sean-mcdonald/</link>
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		<title>George Packer &amp; Alex Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Alex Star: You&#8217;ve titled your book The Unwinding. What do you mean by that? George Packer: It&#8217;s a word that a character in the book, Dean Price, once used. He was talking about the way that the economy in his part of the country — rural North Carolina, where tobacco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/05/george-packer-and-alex-star/</link>
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		<title>On Lorca&#8217;s Poet in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Maureen N. McLane What a strange, vital, careening book—what a book for now. Yet also, what a fascinating document of the early 20th century. A Poet in New York, “New York in a Poet,” as Lorca himself glossed it: this is clearly one of the great works of transnational modernism, a cracked Andalucían mirror [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/04/on-lorcas-poet-in-new-york/</link>
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		<title>AWAYWARD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Averill Curdy on What Brought Her to Poetry Wayward: difficult to control or predict; shortened from obsolete Middle English awayward, “turned away.” I’ve kept a diary, more or less faithfully, for over 30 years. I’ve moved the expanding shelf of filled journals between various apartments in Seattle, and then to Texas, Missouri, Michigan, and finally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/04/awayward/</link>
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		<title>O Publishing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, and a case of Rothschild by Jeff Seroy Twenty-seven years ago, when I was working on the publication of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice at Oxford University Press, I started to wonder how I had overlooked a writer whose work, in Sharon O’Brien’s groundbreaking study, sounded so interesting and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/04/o-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Giving Away My Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mark S. Weiner On a winter afternoon in 2006, on my birthday, I gave away my library. The previous week, I owned so many books that I built teetering stacks of them on the floor of my study. I stored the overflow in my wife’s office, and on the shelves next to the treadmill, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/04/giving-away-my-library/</link>
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		<title>Gavin Corbett &amp; Mitzi Angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Mitzi Angel: I particularly enjoyed your portrait of Dublin in This Is the Way. It’s an inside-out portrait of a city, seen through the eyes of someone who does not feel at home there. How have your own experiences of that city influenced Anthony’s Dublin? Gavin Corbett: Funnily enough, only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/03/gavin-corbett-mitzi-angel/</link>
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		<title>Rebecca Miller &amp; Jonathan Galassi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Jonathan Galassi: Rebecca, lots of people are going to be asking, Where did this all come from? I mean: a fly. I mean: a Jew in 18th-century France becoming a fly here and now. We’re well beyond the bounds of realism here. Can you tell us what the first kernels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/03/rebecca-miller-jonathan-galassi/</link>
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		<title>Sam Lipsyte &amp; Eric Chinski</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Eric Chinski: In The Fun Parts you&#8217;re returning to short stories after publishing a novel, The Ask. Do you approach writing stories and novels differently? Sam Lipsyte: Once I know what I’m writing I start to approach them differently, but in the beginning I’m just trying to get something down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/03/sam-lipsyte-eric-chinski/</link>
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		<title>On Writing Jacob&#8217;s Folly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Rebecca Miller I started with one image: a fireman peeing on his front lawn, at the moment between night and dawn, just as the darkness began to drain from the sky. I knew his last name was Senzatimore. I had known a young man with that name—he was, in fact, the assistant editor on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/02/on-writing-jacobs-folly/</link>
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		<title>Girls and Dead Poets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Mahoney It’s 1990 and I’m a loser. Becoming a novelist hasn’t crossed my mind. I’m a high-school junior who’s shown some aptitude in art, and by aptitude I mean I’m better than classmates who don’t try at all. My art teacher is just happy I do the assignments instead of throwing Exact-o knives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/02/girls-and-dead-poets/</link>
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		<title>Jamaica Kincaid &amp; Jonathan Galassi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors and Editors in Conversation Jonathan Galassi: Jamaica, this is your first novel in a decade. How has your writing changed in the intervening period and what have you been thinking about in terms of writing? Jamaica Kincaid: “This is your first novel in a decade.” There are so many strange things in that brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/02/jamaica-kincaid-jonathan-galassi/</link>
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		<title>The Problem with Aesthetic Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Disney, David Lynch, and Django Unchained by Eric G. Wilson In the weeks after the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained—which depicts a freed American slave taking bloody revenge on cruel slaveholders—has faced a lot of media scrutiny. Pundits have wondered if this kind of fictional brutality incites real-life violence. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/01/trainwreck/</link>
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		<title>My Life in Six Drawers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sara Wheeler The happiest moment of my life presented itself one cool February afternoon in the Transantarctic Mountains, many years ago. I was hiking up a valley. Fearful of losing my bearings, I stopped to fish a USGS map from my pack and spread it on the ice. Tracing my route by topographical landmarks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/01/my-life-in-six-drawers/</link>
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		<title>Sean McDonald Recommends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, the best novel of the year is Ellen Ullman&#8217;s By Blood, the best nonfiction book Richard Lloyd Parry&#8217;s People Who Eat Darkness, the best manifesto Jeff Speck&#8217;s Walkable City, the best travel book (and the best-titled book) Rosecrans Baldwin&#8217;s Paris, I Love You But You&#8217;re Bringing Me Down, the best vampire book Brian McGreevy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/12/sean-mcdonald-recommends/</link>
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		<title>FSG&#8217;s Favorite Books of 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Scire Picking favorites is almost always tricky business. For the staff of FSG, crowning just a few of the many books they read &#8220;the best of 2012&#8243; seemed close to impossible. There were last-minute additions, half-hearted apologies for self-interested choices, lengthy disclaimers about how all of the books they&#8217;d worked on were their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/12/fsgs-favorite-books-of-2012/</link>
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		<title>The Handwriting of FSG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Philip Hensher and Stephen Weil Philip Hensher’s charming and informative new book, The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, was released in the United States last month by Faber and Faber. Taking inspiration from the New Statesman, we asked some of the folks involved in its publication here at Faber and Faber/FSG to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/12/the-handwriting-of-fsg/</link>
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		<title>Between the Abyss and Misfortune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prologue to Woes of the True Policeman by Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas Translated by Natasha Wimmer Woes of the True Policeman is a project that was begun at the end of the 1980s and continued until the writer’s death. What the reader has in his hands is the faithful and definitive version, collated from typescripts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/12/between-the-abyss-and-misfortune/</link>
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		<title>Leonard Marcus on Madeleine L&#8217;Engle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Nov. 29, which would have been Madeleine L’Engle’s 94th birthday, the Diocesan House of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on New York City’s Upper West Side was dedicated as a Literary Landmark in honor of the nearly four decades that she wrote and worked in its library. L’Engle is the author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/12/leonard-marcus-on-madeleine-lengle/</link>
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