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…
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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…
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August 15, 2019
Slipping into Imagined Worlds
When I first read Lian Hearn’s novel, Across the Nightingale Floor (2002), it was a…
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August 9, 2019
Everything Is Under Control
Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control (out April 2020) is a memoir about appetite—how it…
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August 9, 2019
Tupelo Hassman
"Developing Stories," a series from Work in Progress, invites authors to carry a disposable camera…
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August 9, 2019
Valerie
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be…
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August 2, 2019
Narrative Frames
In Adam Ehrlich Sachs's The Organs of Sense, the year is 1666 and an astronomer…
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August 2, 2019
Tea Time with Tupelo
A cheery deathbed story by way of introduction. My dad said a couple of things…
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July 25, 2019
The Weight of an Object
Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in…
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July 25, 2019
Writing About Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
In The Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up…
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July 17, 2019
Cleanness
I loved Garth Greenwell’s debut, What Belongs to You. It tells the story of a…
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July 16, 2019
A Poetry Reading List
FSG’s poetry list for 2019 celebrates voices old and new, from Seamus Heaney to Katie…
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July 14, 2019
The Catholic School
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School,…
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July 11, 2019
Why Don’t We Talk About Menopause?
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she…
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July 11, 2019
Stay and Fight
Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off…
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July 1, 2019
Valerie
A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art…
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June 30, 2019
gods with a little g
From the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into…
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June 28, 2019
I’m Your Biggest Fan
Adam Foulds presents readers with a stunning and terrifying vision of the damage done between…
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June 28, 2019
Destroy All Monsters A-Z
Since Destroy All Monsters was published last fall, readers have reached out with all sorts…
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June 28, 2019
Spiral
A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, The Sun on My Head is Geovani Martins's forceful…
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