January 31, 2013
The Problem with Aesthetic Violence
On Disney, David Lynch, and Django Unchained by Eric G. Wilson In the weeks after…
January 17, 2013
My Life in Six Drawers
by Sara Wheeler The happiest moment of my life presented itself one cool February afternoon…
December 19, 2012
Sean McDonald Recommends…
Obviously, the best novel of the year is Ellen Ullman's By Blood, the best nonfiction…
December 19, 2012
FSG’s Favorite Books of 2012
by Sarah Scire Picking favorites is almost always tricky business. For the staff of FSG,…
December 13, 2012
The Handwriting of FSG
by Philip Hensher and Stephen Weil Philip Hensher’s charming and informative new book, The Missing…
December 13, 2012
Between the Abyss and Misfortune
Prologue to Woes of the True Policeman by Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas Translated by Natasha…
December 6, 2012
Leonard Marcus on Madeleine L’Engle
On Thursday, Nov. 29, which would have been Madeleine L’Engle’s 94th birthday, the Diocesan House…
December 6, 2012
The Joy of Burning Down the House
by Ben Schrank Writing a novel should be fun. At the beginning, meander. Don’t be…
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…