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 2018 list: Early Work by Andrew Martin Kudos by Rachel Cusk The Neighborhood by Mario...
Angie Kim's debut novel Miracle Creek will publish April 2019, and is about an experimental medical treatment device known as the "Miracle Submarine" that mysteriously explodes, killing two people. What follows is a thoroughly...
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, they join an...
FSG has a long history of championing international voices and works in translation, from Roberto Bolaño to Marguerite Yourcenar. In honor of that history and our efforts to carry on the work of our predecessors, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite...
When I began researching Bringing Down the Colonel some ten years ago, I was confident that I was writing “history.” I hoped that by telling the story of a lost, late Gilded Age sex scandal, I could shed light on how far women had...
Poet, essayist, playwright, and social critic T. S. Eliot was one of the defining voices of the 20th century and an integral part of the Modernist movement. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."...
"The brilliant Breaking News is essential–and entertaining–reading for anyone who cares a whit about the hallmark of a democratic state being more than a lavatory wall." —Harold Evans, The Guardian Breaking News is an urgent...
We asked the staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux to pick the best book published this year, name their favorite titles—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread this year, and share which FSG books they’ll be gifting during the holidays. THE BEST BOOKS PUBLISHED...
In The Circuit, award-winning poet and Paris Review sports columnist Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that...
This summer ran long, and winter came early, but there were maybe a couple weeks in there when Chicago got a real fall. Around then I took these pictures, which span the course of a week or so. The week felt full, yet ordinary....
Enter for a chance to win a complete signed collection of Jonathan Franzen's books! The winner will receive signed copies of the following:
- The End of the End of the Earth
- Purity
- Freedom
- How to be Alone
- The Corrections
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Hideo Yokohama’s masterpiece Seventeen is set in a fictional newspaper company covering the real-life 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet in a mountainous region of Japan. The accident happened before I moved to Japan, but it is a major...
"It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars." —Marie Colvin Watch a video about the story behind In...
In the fall of 2013 I received a submission from one of the smartest, loveliest agents I know, Katherine Fausset at Curtis Brown. At first glance it seemed unlikely—a posthumous story collection from a little known writer. But then I saw her name: Lucia...
Lucia Berlin was a Western writer, by which I do not mean a genre writer of cowboy tales like Zane Grey or the younger Elmore Leonard, but that her stories, with only a few exceptions, are situated west of the Great Plains or in...
Evening in Paradise is a collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation, Lucia Berlin. After reading them, Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, "Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." The stories take us from Texas...
“I’ve lived so many places it’s ridiculous . . . and because I moved so much, place is very, very important to me. I’m always looking . . . looking for home.” —Lucia Berlin, interview (2003) The first writer I ever watched at work was my...
Enter the FSG Classics Sweepstakes for a chance to win a FSG tote bag, plus some of our favorite classics that remain relevant and important years after publication. The list of books includes: • The Complete Stories by Flannery...