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04.24.24

The Novels of Mason’s Retreat

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The Novels of Mason’s Retreat

Christopher Tilghman and Jonathan Galassi discuss Christopher's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family, and Volume 4 in The Novels of Mason’s Retreat series, On the Tobacco Coast. JONATHAN GALASSI: Chris, your novels about the Chesapeake are a project...

Christopher Tilghman and Jonathan Galassi

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04.23.24

Clair Wills Speaks to Jonathan Galassi About Family Secrets, Reproductive Rights and the Lessons We Can Learn From History

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Clair Wills Speaks to Jonathan Galassi About Family Secrets, Reproductive Rights and the Lessons We Can Learn From History

A conversation between Clair Wills and her editor Jonathan Galassi about Missing Persons, and how Clair blends memoir with social history to movingly explore the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story. Jonathan Galassi: Clair, let's begin by...

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05.17.23

A Gathering of Lonely Figures

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A Gathering of Lonely Figures

Austral is Carlos Fonseca's second novel with FSG. The novel was translated by Megan McDowell, whose translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the O. Henry Prize, and have been nominated four times for...

A conversation between Carlos Fonseca and his editor Ben Brooks about Carlos’s forthcoming novel Austral.

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03.03.23

On the Make

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On the Make

A conversation between Justin Torres and his editor, Jenna Johnson, a week after his new novel Blackouts was announced. *** Jenna Johnson: Justin Torres, can you believe it? Here we are again on the brink of publishing your new book. We did this once before...

Justin Torres and Jenna Johnson In Conversation

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07.29.22

Total

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Total

The author and award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller returned to short fiction this month for the first time since her collection of stories, Personal Velocity, with the arresting and darkly prescient Total. From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to...

Rebecca Miller and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

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05.06.22

Like Solving a Puzzle

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Like Solving a Puzzle

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,...

Chris Pavone and Daphne Durham In Conversation

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04.30.21

Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem

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Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem

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...

In Conversation with Malcolm Tariq

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11.13.20

The Details of What It Feels to Be Alive

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The Details of What It Feels to Be Alive

Long before he became one of the most renowned literary critics of our time, Dwight Garner started the practice of keeping a 'commonplace book' of literary quotations that spoke to him. His new book, Garner's Quotations, is a reflection of that lifelong attention—and celebration—of...

Dwight Garner and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

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11.13.20

The Courage in Remaining

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The Courage in Remaining

Jonas Hassan Khemiri is a 2020 finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature for his book, The Family Clause, a singular novel hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "complex portrait of a family that is both identifiable and distinctive,...

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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07.31.20

A Certain Clarity

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A Certain Clarity

Lawrence Joseph’s A Certain Clarity brings together poems selected from throughout his career, spanning his first book—1983’s Shouting at No One—to his most recent, So Where Are We? (2017). Joseph’s poetry has always grappled with the defining moments of our age, from...

Lawrence Joseph and Paul Elie In Conversation

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05.15.20

Transforming Consciousness

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Transforming Consciousness

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from debut author Kawai Strong Washburn. In this interview, transcribed from a...

Kawai Strong Washburn and Marlon James In Conversation

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05.08.20

Man of My Time

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Man of My Time

Bound galleys of Dalia Sofer’s Man of My Time happened to go out just as political tensions started to escalate between the US and Iran over the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani. Some weeks later, as we publish this novel, the entire...

Dalia Sofer and Ileene Smith

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04.03.20

Translating Time

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Translating Time

If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to...

Eliza Griswold, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

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03.13.20

Clearing Space for Resonances

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Clearing Space for Resonances

Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and...

Amina Cain and Patty Yumi Cottrell In Conversation

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02.27.20

Unfinished Business

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Unfinished Business

I sometimes think I was born reading...I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. In Vivian Gornick's new book, Unfinished Business, she brings us a celebration of passionate reading, of...

Vivian Gornick & Alexandra Schwartz In Conversation

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02.13.20

The Cactus League

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The Cactus League

Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches,...

Emily Nemens & David Duchovny In Conversation

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01.30.20

Laying Bare the Dignity of Queer Desire

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Laying Bare the Dignity of Queer Desire

In Cleanness, the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire. Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. In this atmosphere of...

Garth Greenwell & Andrea Lawlor In Conversation

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12.04.19

Expanding Our Language

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Expanding Our Language

For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest, and...

John Freeman & Valeria Luiselli In Conversation

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11.22.19

Writing Sensory Experience

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Writing Sensory Experience

If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods,...

Devin Johnston & Robyn Creswell In Conversation

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11.08.19

The Passage of Time

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The Passage of Time

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, the book recently became an Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young...

André Aciman & Tomi Obaro In Conversation

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The Novels of Mason’s Retreat

Clair Wills Speaks to Jonathan Galassi About Family Secrets, Reproductive Rights and the Lessons We Can Learn From History

A Gathering of Lonely Figures

On the Make

Total

Like Solving a Puzzle

Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem

The Details of What It Feels to Be Alive

The Courage in Remaining

A Certain Clarity

Transforming Consciousness

Man of My Time

Translating Time

Clearing Space for Resonances

Unfinished Business

The Cactus League

Laying Bare the Dignity of Queer Desire

Expanding Our Language

Writing Sensory Experience

The Passage of Time