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		<title>Gary Shteyngart Reads Etgar Keret&#8217;s &#8220;What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something about Etgar Keret&#8217;s short stories that works especially well online. Perhaps it&#8217;s their terseness, their easy vernacular, or their wry approach to the fundamental oddness of modern life. Also, magic goldfish. Gary Shteyngart—novelist, Twitterer, and illiteracy advocate—reads &#8220;What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?&#8221; from Keret&#8217;s collection Suddenly, A Knock on The Door. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/gary-shteyngart-reads-etgar-keret/</link>
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		<title>Tupelo Hassman: Introductions, How to Make</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia&#8217;s MFA program. Her writing has been published in Paper Street Press, The Portland Review Literary Journal, Tantalum, We Still Like, ZYZZYVA, and by 100WordStory.org, FiveChapters.com, and Invisible City Audio Tours. Tupelo will be filming Girlchild&#8216;s book tour for a short documentary, &#8220;Hardbound: A Novel&#8217;s Life on the Road.&#8221; Her website [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/tupelo-hassman-introductions-how-to-make/</link>
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		<title>T. M. Wolf on Hip-Hop, New Jersey, and the Novel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[T. M. Wolf is the author of Sound, which will be published by Faber &#38; Faber in April. He is twenty-nine, grew up on the New Jersey Shore, and he has written for a variety of music publications, particularly on hip-hop. He recently graduated from Yale Law School. You can follow him on Twitter @tom_tm_wolf. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/t-m-wolf-on-hip-hop-new-jersey-and-the-novel/</link>
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		<title>Nerd Jeopardy Returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warm up with wine and the humiliation of your literary peers at the first &#8220;Nerd Jeopardy!&#8221; of 2012. As always, three teams of three will compete for glory and prizes in a very familiar game show setting. Therein we&#8217;ll test everyone&#8217;s knowledge of literature and pop culture; even audience members will have the chance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/nerd-jeopardy-returns/</link>
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		<title>The Most Popular Stories of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books. Here&#8217;s a look at which ones received the most clicks in the past four weeks. (Discounting our own Favorite Reads from 2011 feature, which people really, really liked.) “King of the Hyperpolyglots,” The Morning News &#8220;Why Authors Tweet,&#8221; The New York Times Book Review &#8220;Why Does Art Have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/the-most-popular-stories-of-january/</link>
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		<title>Recent Longreads Highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few recent additions from our Longreads page, our repository for articles, interviews, and stories longer than 2,000 words. (Also keep an eye out for our Twitter posts marked with the #longreads tag.) From the past thirty days: &#8220;Late Bloomers&#8221; by Alina Simone, in BOMB &#8220;In Gold We Trust&#8221; by Wells Tower, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2012/01/recent-longreads-highlights-7/</link>
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		<title>Authors&#8217; and Editors&#8217; Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more and more books published every year, it&#8217;s increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Does this increase the usefulness of all the annual &#8220;Best of&#8221; lists? Perhaps. It&#8217;s irresistible when a critic distills a year of reading into a simple hierarchy, especially if her tastes match your own. It&#8217;s just so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/authors-and-editors-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>David Levithan&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Levithan is the author of The Lover’s Dictionary and of many acclaimed young-adult novels, including the New York Times bestselling Nick &#38; Norah’s Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn). He is also the editorial director at Scholastic and the founding editor of the PUSH imprint. The Lover’s Dictionary continues on Twitter @loversdiction. So many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/david-levithans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Paul La Farge&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul La Farge is the author of three novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Harper’s Magazine, Fence, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/paul-la-farges-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>David Bezmozgis&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, won a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a 2004 New York Times Notable Book. His second book, The Free World, was published by FSG in March 2011. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/david-bezmozgiss-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Sean McDonald&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean McDonald is the executive editor and director of paperback publishing at FSG. To be clear, I agree with everyone else: The three best books of 2011 are Frank Bill’s Crimes in Southern Indiana, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead, and Héctor Tobar’s Barbarian Nurseries. But you want me to think beyond the walls of FSG. That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/sean-mcdonalds-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Caleb Scharf&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caleb Scharf is the director of the Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, and his book, Gravity’s Engines, will be published in August 2012 under the Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint. Scharf’s blog Life, Unbounded was named one of the “hottest science blogs” by The Guardian. He has written for New Scientist, Science, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/caleb-scharfs-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Jesse Coleman&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Coleman is an associate editor at FSG. For me, 2011 was the year of rereading, and my favorite reads of the year were books that I have read before: Mating by Norman Rush The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint Erasure by Percival Everett The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö All Authors&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/jesse-colemans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Anthony Giardina&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Giardina is the author of four previous novels, most recently White Guys, and one collection of stories. His novel Norumbega Park will be published by FSG in January 2012. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine, and his plays have been widely produced. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/anthony-giardinas-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Ellen Ullman&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ellen Ullman is the author of a novel, The Bug, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. Her novel By Blood will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/ellen-ullmans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Christopher Tilghman&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Tilghman is the author of two short-story collections, In a Father’s Place and The Way People Run, and two novels, Mason’s Retreat and Roads of the Heart. His next novel, The Right-Hand Shore, will be published by FSG in May 2012. Currently the director of the MFA program at the University of Virginia, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/christopher-tilghmans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Ryan Chapman&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Chapman is the online marketing manager at FSG, and produces this very site. Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton The Road to Somewhere by James Reeves The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City by Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti Otherwise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/ryan-chapmans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Andrés Neuman&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrés Neuman was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has a degree in Spanish philology from the University of Granada. Neuman was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá-39 list. Traveler of the Century, which will be published by FSG in March, was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/andres-neumans-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Daniel Chamovitz&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Chamovitz is a biologist and the director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University. You can find Chamovitz’s website here and follow him @DanielChamovitz. His book What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses will be published in June 2012 under the Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/daniel-chamovitzs-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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		<title>Jesse Bering&#8217;s Favorite Reads from 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Bering is a scholar in residence at Wells College. He is a regular columnist at scientificamerican.com and a frequent contributor to Slate, and he has appeared on NPR, Playboy Radio, and more. He is the author of The Belief Instinct and Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/12/jesse-berings-favorite-reads-from-2011/</link>
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