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September 19, 2013

The Night Guest: Chapter One

Ruth woke at four in the morning and her blurry brain said “Tiger.” That was…

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September 12, 2013

Ange Mlinko & Christopher Richards

Poet Ange Mlinko has been praised by The New Yorker for writing “intoxicating, cerebral poems…

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September 5, 2013

Celebrating the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney’s death last week left a rift in our lives, and in poetry, that…

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August 29, 2013

Endings That Hover

The need to tell stories, to create narratives, grows from the weird essence of the…

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August 29, 2013

The Aphorist in My Study

A crabby and often cryptic writing coach occasionally stations himself in the back corner of…

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August 22, 2013

Reflections on George Zimmerman

Joshua Dubler is the author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American…

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August 22, 2013

Tim Finch & Ileene Smith

Tim Finch sat down recently with his editor, Ileene Smith, to discuss flammable prose, meta-fiction,…

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August 16, 2013

Sjón & Hari Kunzru

A heartfelt introduction by Björk is a hard act to follow. But when Sjón and…

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August 16, 2013

Björk Introduces Sjón

Scandinavia House, The Nordic Center in America, 2013 Dear friends, I’d like to introduce a…

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August 1, 2013

Toby Barlow & Rosecrans Baldwin

Authors in Conversation "Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for 'Paris,'"…

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July 25, 2013

Brent Hendricks & Kevin Brockmeier

Authors in Conversation “The truth is that if my fiction is rooted in a sense…

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July 25, 2013

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

By Robert Anasi At the exact hour on February 12, 2012 that I was supposed…

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July 25, 2013

Editorial Minutes, January 1974

From the Archives "As one who has been around FSG for a very long time,…

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July 17, 2013

Revisiting the Victorian Literati

On the Redoubtable Janet Ross by Ben Downing There it was: Poggio Gherardo! Or no,…

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July 12, 2013

Fake Fans

by Alina Simone Dear Ms. Simone, I’m writing to you in regard to my husband…

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June 27, 2013

Novels and the Future

The Nathaniel Rich and Robin Sloan Emails On May 7th, Robin Sloan and Nathaniel Rich…

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June 26, 2013

Reading in the Closet

Authors on the Books that Helped Them Come Out Reading may be a solitary experience,…

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June 20, 2013

Sam Byers & Charles Yu

Authors in Conversation Charles Yu: I’m re-reading Idiopathy and I’m dumbstruck by how good it…

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June 20, 2013

Designing The Towers of Trebizond

by Charlotte Strick Part of my job as Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s Paperback Art Director…

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June 13, 2013

Unmastered: On Writing for Myself

I am often asked how I wrote Unmastered. Sometimes, I am asked how I went…

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