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...
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,...
“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...
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”
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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...
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 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...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
"Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz has given us the first fictional depiction of Jewish life in Germany in the final months before the war, a keenly observed sociological snapshot as well as an insightful psychological portrait of the protagonist. The Passenger is a disabused, prophetic,...
Once again, Farrar, Straus and Giroux celebrates Poetry Month, which falls, in the words of Shakespeare, in “proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim” (Sonnet 98). Jonathan Galassi has been instrumental in publishing poetry at FSG and will be awarded the 2021 Academy of...
CITRUS SHERBET makes 1 heaping quart Spring 2021 has brought on a massive craving for Creamsicle bars. I haven’t eaten one since the eighties so I’m thinking this desire might have something to do with the perfect cocktail of getting vaccinated, the possibility of a slow...
Enter FSG’s 75th Anniversary Sweepstakes for a chance to win nine of our biggest hits in literature from each decade, drawing from our most celebrated authors! THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides COLLECTED POEMS, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott ON PHOTOGRAPHY by Susan Sontag THE DREAM SONGS by John Berryman NIGHT by Elie Wiesel THE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT: VOLUME 1 by T.S. Eliot LUSTER by Raven Leilani Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including twenty-five Nobel Prizes in Literature and numerous National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes.
Enter FSG’s Notable Books Sweepstakes for a chance to win a hardcover set of our books that were featured in the New York Times’ "100 Notable Books of 2020" list: 97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrère; Translated from the French by John Lambert, Owls of...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux and MCD x FSG are beyond thrilled to see our titles included in Barack Obama's favorite books of 2020! Enter below for a chance to win all three of our books.
FSG is thrilled to share the stunning cover of Leone Ross's new novel, Popisho, which we will publish in April 2021. It's a lush and sensual cover—illustrated by Hayley Wall and designed by Alex Merto—for an equally lush and sensual novel.
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