In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his own childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang...
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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love. For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer...
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Suffering the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and newly committed to a career in journalism, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran in 1998 for the first time since the revolution—since she was four years old. She would stay for ten years, and
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The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess...
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"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 account of the revolution that has upended the news...
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"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 Extremis, Lindsey...
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“I would like to make an assertion that I cannot prove but am certain is true. Within a fifty-kilometer radius of where I am writing this Prologue, someone somewhere is either playing or listening to Chopin’s music . . . Whatever the time zone,...
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“There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.” —BONO The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems,...
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Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother. Tessa Fontaine on...
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Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach Trilogy, explores northern Florida to discuss the encroaching threats to local wildlife, writing about the environment as a political act, and the inspiration for his latest novel, Borne.
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Like most books, my history of tap dancing does not include any video. But YouTube abounds in tap footage, easily accessible though impermanent, coming and going as copyright restrictions are irregularly enforced. By directing attention to it, I may cause it to disappear. Nevertheless,...
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Because The Good Lieutenant focuses on a female soldier, Lieutenant Emma Fowler, I realized early on that I was going to rely on the expertise of the many women who’d fought and served in Iraq—as well as the men. Former Sergeant Angela...
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THREE POEMS is the brainchild of Max Freeman, a Brooklyn-based poet and filmmaker. Inspired by a film of Frank O’Hara reading “Having a Coke with You,” Max invites poets over to his studio to read three poems. For Poetry Month we matched...
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Jeffrey Eugenides stopped by the FSG offices a couple weeks ago, in advance of his book tour for The Marriage Plot. We used the opportunity to let his Facebook fans ask a few questions, some of which are featured in the video below. Q. In the introduction for My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead you speak of the concept of a “love story” and provide a selection of short stories in that vein. Which novels do you believe also fit the mold of a “love story,” and did they influence your writing of The Marriage Plot?
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At BookExpo America, the annual conference for booksellers, librarians and publishers, novelist Jeffrey Eugenides previewed The Marriage Plot, his much anticipated follow-up to Middlesex. (Astute Work in Progress readers may remember his conversation with editor Jonathan Galassi from our debut issue.)The author shared the stage with Mindy Kaling, Diane Keaton, and Charlaine Harris.
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The last week of April means two things in New York: inclement weather and the wonderful PEN World Voices Festival. There's an entire week of diverse programming with celebrated authors from all corners of the globe, but the audience favorite would have to be the Moth storytelling night. This year Jonathan Franzen shared an autobiographical anecdote about the dangers of using your life in your writing:
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Last week brought the good news that Eliza Griswold's The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam has been named a finalist in the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism. The winner will be announced June 7th. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this previously unseen recording of Eliza at the Russian Samovar for our FSG Reading Series.
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To coincide with David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary, he's asking readers to create their own entries in the style of the book. Here's a preview of what we mean:
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Two of our writers contacted us about creating a video for the "It Gets Better" national campaign to educate and help struggling LGBT teenagers. Here, Justin Spring and Wendy Moffat talk about the trials Sam Steward and E. M. Forster faced in their lives, and how they rose above them.
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We are thrilled to feature New Yorker "20 Under 40" writer David Bezmozgis reading from his forthcoming novel The Free World (April, 2011). His previous book, Natasha, has become something of a favorite around the offices.