April 18, 2019
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border…
April 18, 2019
Seeds in the Soil
Find an example of wood with your eyes. The floorboards, a door, trim around the…
April 13, 2019
Mr. Know-It-All
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The…
April 12, 2019
The Topeka School
“The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight, and deep…
April 12, 2019
Poetry and Philosophy Revisited
As an academic philosopher and the author of many books of poetry, I’m often asked…
April 12, 2019
Fiddle Music
For as long as I can remember, I have composed poems from the bits of…
April 6, 2019
The Organs of Sense
"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful…
April 4, 2019
Writing to a Single Listener
In those days I began to see light under every bushel basket, light nearly splitting…
April 4, 2019
I’m Writing You from Tehran
Suffering the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and newly committed to a career in…
April 4, 2019
Grievous
H. S. Cross explores “a school as nuanced and secretive as J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts”…
April 4, 2019
FSG Poetry Month 2019
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” —Marianne Moore The best…
March 29, 2019
The Unpassing
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream…
March 28, 2019
19 FSG Writers on the Women Who Inspire Them
This week’s edition of Work in Progress celebrates Women’s History Month. We asked nineteen of…
March 22, 2019
Thomas and Beal in the Midi
A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists…
March 22, 2019
Saving Yourself from Time
"David Means is a master of tense, distilled, quintessentially American prose...Each story by Means which…
March 22, 2019
The Light Years
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the…
March 22, 2019
You Are Actual
Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech’s offer to apartment-sit…
March 15, 2019
Borderlands
When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border…
March 13, 2019
The Search for Mata Hari
Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays…