September 20, 2019
The Era of Climate in Fiction
Two writers grapple with climate change in fiction, nonfiction—and real life. Amitav Ghosh, the award-winning…
Read More
September 20, 2019
Swerving
Writers, like most people, struggle with darkness. It’s icky. When scenes with elements of darkness…
Read More
September 13, 2019
In Search of Lampedusa’s Sicily
In his later years, when he had lost nearly everything, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa would…
Read More
September 13, 2019
The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus
Grady Klein and Yoram Bauman are the co-authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus. They…
Read More
September 6, 2019
The Cactus League
We are excited to reveal the cover for Emily Nemens' forthcoming book, The Cactus League,…
Read More
September 6, 2019
The Week After
Brookdale, California some days, but mostly night TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 2016 When you are in…
Read More
September 6, 2019
We, the Survivors
Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian…
Read More
August 26, 2019
Fall Collection Sweepstakes
Enter for a chance to win a set of our anticipated Fall reads!
Read More
August 23, 2019
100 Poems
The idea for this collection of one hundred poems is not a new one. My…
Read More
August 23, 2019
A Bit of Unfinished Business
Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the…
Read More
August 23, 2019
Sixteen FSG Memoirs
A list of sixteen memoirs new and old, spanning a story of growing up in…
Read More
August 18, 2019
Coventry
From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art Rachel…
Read More
August 15, 2019
Oliver Sacks at the Museum of Natural History
Assigned to write a profile for The New York Times, Lawrence Weschler began spending time…
Read More
August 15, 2019
A Life in Four Languages and a War
I speak and write four languages: Medumba, which is my mother tongue, English, German, and…
Read More
August 15, 2019
Slipping into Imagined Worlds
When I first read Lian Hearn’s novel, Across the Nightingale Floor (2002), it was a…
Read More
August 9, 2019
Everything Is Under Control
Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control (out April 2020) is a memoir about appetite—how it…
Read More
August 9, 2019
Tupelo Hassman
"Developing Stories," a series from Work in Progress, invites authors to carry a disposable camera…
Read More
August 9, 2019
Valerie
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be…
Read More
August 4, 2019
Gun Island
From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure…
Read More
August 2, 2019
Narrative Frames
In Adam Ehrlich Sachs's The Organs of Sense, the year is 1666 and an astronomer…
Read More