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...
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...
Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of a woman and artist drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her breakout novel, described by the Los Angeles Times as “a heavenly celebration of women in charge of their...
May is Short Story Month, and we at FSG are damn proud of the short stories we publish—so there’s no way we’d miss out on the fun. Our short story collections run the gamut. We’ve got classics like Bernard Malamud’s The Magic Barrel (to...
A few months ago I traveled to India for work. I went north and south, seeing auto rickshaws and UNESCO architecture. One of the best things I saw was a logo.
Here Kirsten Bakis and Jeff VanderMeer discuss exactly what animals think and feel and “how we are all enmeshed in a great, continuous, ever-evolving web that connects us to everything else.”
The Mighty Franks is the story of one family—brilliant, close, complicated—and of one woman and the power she exerted with in it. Michael Frank's Aunt Hankie was a legendary screenwriter, and a magnetic, enthralling personality, who separated Frank from his parents and siblings, and...
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The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but...