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, in Crossroads,...
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"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,...
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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...
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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...
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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. To enter the world of Popisho is to enter...
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Every year at FSG, we ask our staff to come together and talk about their favorite books—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread that year. This year, that sense of community feels more important than ever, as we come together to talk about...
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Over the next few months, we’ll be putting put on a spotlight on each of our editors and three things that they’ve been enjoying right now: whether that be a beloved piece of music, a tried-and-true recipe, an all-consuming movie or show, and of...
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Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her...
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Congratulations to Austrian writer Peter Handke, with whom Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been working since the early 1970s, on winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. FSG President Jonathan Galassi on the Austrian writer's impact on literature: "Handke is one of the great German prose stylists, who has spent his career exploring both the natural world and the world of human consciousness with exquisite precision, humor, and courage." And as Jeffrey Eugenides writes: “Handke’s sharp eye is always finding a strange beauty amid this colorless world.”
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“The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight, and deep psychological sensitivity . . . To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here.” —Sally Rooney, author...
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A hearty congratulations to James Forman Jr. and Frank Bidart, who have been awarded 2018 Pulitzer Prizes! Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction Locking Up Our Own James Forman Jr.'s book Locking Up Our Own is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize...
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Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen said he was ready for the end to come—he just needed a bit more time to put his last book in order. Here, FSG Vice President and Executive Editor Ileene Smith briefs us on...
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Subscribe to the FSG Work in Progress email newsletter for a chance to win a complete set of our beautiful Flannery O’Connor reissues: Wise Blood, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Complete Stories, The Violent Bear It Away, and Mystery and Manners. FLANNERY O'CONNOR...
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Earlier this month, the Cameroonian-American novelist and poet Patrice Nganang was arrested in Douala after writing critically about the Cameroonian government’s brutal response to local instability and protests in the English speaking regions of the country. As a result of his vocal engagement and...
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Before Joni Mitchell emerged as a performer and demonstrated that she could sing her songs better than anyone else, she was known primarily as a songwriter. Her pieces were covered by a wide range of artists over the course of her musical career. This...
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Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestselling novels The Marriage Plot (2011), Middlesex (2002), and The Virgin Suicides (1993), now proves himself a masterful writer of short fiction with his first story collection, Fresh Complaint. This long-anticipated book leaves...
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We are excited to reveal the cover for The Third Hotel (publishing in 2018), Laura van den Berg’s forthcoming novel. Van den Berg takes us to Havana, Cuba, at the peak of the newly flourishing tourist season. A widow arrives at a film festival and...
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I wrote The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" because I wanted to address the myths and difficulties that modern people, especially those of us interested in living mindfully, face regarding relationships. I wanted to look deeply at friendship, romance, and family without having to come...
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English needs a word for the loneliness you feel when no one else hears what sounds to you like the loudest noise in the room. It happens when your personal receiver is set to a frequency no one else seems to be aware of;...
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With more than 500 interviews and over twenty years of research, Sam Stephenson presents his newest masterpiece Gene Smith’s Sink—an extraordinary look into the life of W. Eugene Smith, a revolutionary photojournalist who both captured some of history’s most powerful images and chronicled...