November 29, 2012
How to Publish a Movie Tie-In Edition in Five Easy Steps
(Steps In Reverse Order) by Matthew Quick Step 5 - You are going to need…
November 15, 2012
“What’s the worst that could happen?”: Oliver Burkeman on Embracing Negativity and Uncertainty
by Sarah Scire Oliver Burkeman wants you to stop trying to be happy. In his…
November 8, 2012
Technology and the Bibliophile
by Robin Sloan When Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore was released, the New York Times ran…
October 11, 2012
Getting it Right: Rosalind Harvey on Translation
by Iza Wojciechowska and Rosalind Harvey “Some people say I’m precocious,” begins Juan Pablo Villalobos’…
October 5, 2012
Writing the Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
by Douglas Smith It was the winter of 2005 and I had been invited to…
October 4, 2012
The Best Book in the FSG Backlist
by Dan Piepenbring Three years ago, I was browsing a used bookstore in West Saugerties,…
September 27, 2012
The Art of Political Biography
Earlier this month, FSG published two books on twentieth-century American political figures: William H. Chafe’s…
September 19, 2012
How a History Book is Born
This week, Hill and Wang, an imprint of FSG specializing in books on American history,…
September 19, 2012
Reinventing Bach: On Writing, Music, and Technology
by Iza Wojciechowska Whether or not you’ve known it, or whether or not you’ve wanted…
September 13, 2012
Ammo and Amore: A Conversation About Love Bomb
Lisa Zeidner, the author of Love Bomb, directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at…
August 23, 2012
Remembering Phyllis Diller
By Yael Kohen Before I was led into the receiving room of Phyllis Diller’s 10,000-square-foot,…
July 19, 2012
Justin Taylor interviews Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell, whose Blueprints for Building Better Girls is out in paperback this month, talks…
July 9, 2012
Mother Backwards
By Andrés Neuman Translated from the Spanish by Richard Gwyn This story first appeared in…
June 27, 2012
How to Have a Career: Advice to Young Writers
Work. Be relentless. All over the world, people are working harder than you. Don’t go…
May 30, 2012
Paris, I Love You, American-style
With his "charming, hilarious account of la vie Parisienne,” Paris, I Love You But You're…
April 13, 2012
Jonathan Franzen: Comma-Then
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The…
April 13, 2012
Bret Easton Ellis and Laurent Binet in Conversation
The writers Bret Easton Ellis (author of several books, including Less Than Zero, American Psycho,…
April 13, 2012
Nerd Jeopardy Returns
Attention English majors and desultory graduate students: your time has come. Our infrequent literary trivia…