English needs a word for the loneliness you feel when no one else hears what sounds to you like the loudest noise in the room. It happens when your personal receiver is set to a frequency no one else seems to be aware of;...
With more than 500 interviews and over twenty years of research, Sam Stephenson presents his newest masterpiece Gene Smith’s Sink—an extraordinary look into the life of W. Eugene Smith, a revolutionary photojournalist who both captured some of history’s most powerful images and chronicled...
The questions of where a story should go can be paralyzing, especially in the beginning, when anything is possible, and especially if you’re not the type of writer to make a plan, which I’m not. To get through this hairy time, I’m likely to...
MCDxFSG would like to thank everyone who participated in the Borne Fan Art Contest. The works we received ranged from precocious and comical to stunning and skillful, with the occasional oddment in between. As a group, they captured nearly every iteration of...
In Catherine Lacey’s The Answers, the protagonist takes a job as the “Emotional Girlfriend” of a wealthy actor in “The Girlfriend Experiment,” a project conducted by biotech researchers to find the algorithms for the...
I grew up in the untouchable slum of Elwin Peta in Kakinada. All around me was abject poverty. When you are surrounded by so much misery, you don’t see it as anything extraordinary. I remember when one of my friends in the neighborhood told...
FSG is proud to reveal the cover for our reissue of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue, a collection of three of the most beloved, revolutionary, and notorious Irish novels of the 20th century, with a new introduction by...
We donated my dad’s eyes. They were very pretty. What eyes aren’t? Somewhere, I suppose, they still are very pretty. The Eye Donation Bank sent a note thanking us for our gift, the eyes, creating an idea of a gruesome jewelry box. The Bank...
When Rimbaud was a little boy, he used to sit at the kitchen table at home in Charleville. He would sit on his chair without moving, his elbows on the table, his chin in his hands, his eyes blank, and stare out of the...
Fiction almost always gets Artificial Intelligence wrong. The AI narratives are generally Frankenstein (“It’s gone rogue!” e.g. Skynet) or Pinocchio (“I just want to be a real boy!” e.g. Commander Data), both of which are a little banal, and neither of which have much...
There were many amazing moments on my recent five-week Borne book tour—yet the opportunity to visit independent bookstores remains foregrounded in my mind. The experience was sublime on multiple levels. Each adventure begins with that marvelous instant of arrival, when you...
June is Pride month, and we're incredibly proud to be able to share a list of FSG books that touch on LGBTQ life. From young gay men experiencing the first bloom of desire, to a lesbian poet playing with language and the erotics of...
New England doesn’t scream noir, not in the way of movies set in New York or Los Angeles, or Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy, or any book coming out of Scandinavia these days. But it’s there, New England Noir, from
We’re excited to announce the book tour for Fresh Complaint, the first collection of short fiction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides. The stories in Fresh Complaint showcase Eugenides’s astute observations on American...
In The Answers Catherine Lacey takes us into “The Girlfriend Experiment”—the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to...
Now through July 30, 2017, MCDxFSG is holding a fan art contest to celebrate the release of Jeff VanderMeer's Borne. The contest is limited to two-dimensional interpretations of the shape-shifting, color-changing, mind-boggling biotech Borne. You might find the following passages...
Jeff VanderMeer's Borne is an unusual kind of coming-of-age story—it isn't a human that grows up, but rather a sentient, shape-shifting bit of biotech, raised by a young woman in a city ravaged by corporate greed. The book was...
Cyborgs, comic book superheroes, protesters in the streets, disenfranchised artists, first-generation immigrants struggling to assimilate—all these outsiders, outcasts, and oddballs have more in common with each other than one might think, as Eugene Lim’s novel Dear Cyborgs beautifully illustrates. Blending...
In 1791, a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians devastated a band of American militiamen in the backwoods of what is now northwestern Ohio. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the United States would ever suffer...