More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and fools. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries; it thrives on cultural...
“The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” —Peggy...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux partnered with the boutique perfumery Folie à Plusieurs to create an exclusive, one-of-a-kind custom perfume to enhance the reading experience of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name sequel Find Me. The sequel brings us back inside the...
A cheery deathbed story by way of introduction. My dad said a couple of things to me in the hours before he passed. Three of these were direct orders, which is a total power move: Find a husband. Have a baby. And . ....
There is nothing a writer loves more than free books, so I knew our (very brief) History of Living Forever contest—based on Joseph Wright of Derby’s famous painting “The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus”—would attract its fair share of entries. But I never knew those...
What's the shortest way to live forever? Achieve immortality through a micro writing contest! Jake Wolff's debut The History of Living Forever (6.11.19) drops the reader right into a grand literary adventure—in which a web of scientists, alchemists, doctors, hucksters, a high school...
“A man is sitting in a room, all by himself. He’s lonely. He’s a writer. He wants to write a story. It’s been a long time since he wrote his last story, and he misses it. He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right—something out something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But when it’s something out of something, that means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.” —from “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door” by Etgar Keret Faber & Faber publisher and editor Mitzi Angel writes: “Etgar Keret’s short tales have always resisted classification. Are they fables? Are they forays into the Israeli unconscious? How can they be so funny and so devastatingly sad at the same time? Can you even call Suddenly, A Knock on the Door (Spring 2012) a ‘story collection’? We thought it would be fun to see what his vivid, shape-shifting narratives might inspire in other people, especially given that Etgar has always been interested in blurring the boundaries between different artistic media.”