Check out the FSG X AirMail Summer in the City selection and stock up on your perfect beach read.
The Bonfire of Vanities, The Right Stuff, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
One of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Right Stuff and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe was a reporter for The Washington Post, the New York Harold Tribune, Esquire, and New York Magazine.
The Doorman by Chris Pavone
“A Bonfire of Vanities for our times . . . Chris Pavone aimed high when he wrote The Doorman, a social satire with the engine of a thriller that examines the aftermath of the George Floyd movement on the diverse mix of humans who coexist uneasily in New York City . . . It all climaxes in one chaotic night, masterfully orchestrated by Pavone . . . The Doorman employs the elements of a thriller to bring the story home to a messy, tour de force conclusion.” —Air Mail
Flashlight by Susan Choi
A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see. One of the most anticipated books of Summer 2025, Flashlight appeared as a short story in The New Yorker‘s fiction issue in 2020, and it was a story that Susan Choi felt she had to continue to explore.
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
An autobiographical work that deals with Shapton’s youth as a competitive swimmer who made it as far as the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic trials. When it was originally published, Swimming Studies was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Murder in the Dollhouse by Rich Cohen
This is Rich Cohen’s deep dive into the investigation around the murder of Jennifer Dulos which he originally reported about for Air Mail. “What Truman Capote did for Holcomb, Kansas, with In Cold Blood, Rich Cohen has done for New Canaan, Connecticut, with Murder in the Dollhouse. This book isn’t just true crime, it’s sociology in action.” —Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz
Inspector Maigret Series
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. An intrepid traveler with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand—and not to judge—the human condition in all its shades. His books include the Inspector Maigret series, including The Yellow Dog, The Late Monsieur Gallet, and The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon.
“Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals.” —People
Play It As It Lays, The White Album, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The National Book Award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for Vogue, Mademoiselle, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and National Review, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement.