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July 9, 2012

Mother Backwards

By Andrés Neuman Translated from the Spanish by Richard Gwyn This story first appeared in…

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Advice On Writing The Latest

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…

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In Conversation On Writing Poetry The Latest

June 7, 2012

Q & A: Rowan Ricardo Phillips with FSG Poet Lawrence Joseph

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, whose debut book of poetry, The Ground, published this week, recently sat…

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In Conversation The Latest

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…

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Excerpts On Writing The Latest

April 13, 2012

Jonathan Franzen: Comma-Then

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The…

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In Conversation On Writing The Latest

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,…

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Audio Excerpts Short Story The Latest

April 13, 2012

Willem Dafoe, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Shalom Auslander Read Etgar Keret

There's something about Etgar Keret's short stories that sound great when read aloud. Fortunately for…

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Event

April 13, 2012

Nerd Jeopardy Returns

Attention English majors and desultory graduate students: your time has come. Our infrequent literary trivia…

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Exclusive

April 13, 2012

The Most Popular Stories of the Past Four Weeks

We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books each month. Here's a look at which ones…

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In Conversation On Writing The Latest

March 20, 2012

John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff Dyer in Conversation

The writers John Jeremiah Sullivan (Pulphead) and Geoff Dyer (Zona) recently met up in New…

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Excerpts On Writing The Latest

March 20, 2012

Marilynne Robinson: When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Housekeeping (FSG, 1981), Gilead (FSG, 2004), winner…

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In the Archives Photography The Latest

March 20, 2012

The Archives: I. B. Singer

FSG has published Isaac Bashevis Singer's works for over fifty years, including The Magician of…

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Cinema On Writing The Latest

March 20, 2012

Tupelo Hassman: Book Tour as Documentary

Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA program. Her writing has been published in Paper Street…

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Longreads

March 20, 2012

Recent Longreads Highlights

Here are a few recent additions from our Longreads page, our repository for articles, interviews,…

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Exclusive Popular Stories

March 20, 2012

The Most Popular Stories of the Past Four Weeks

We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books each month. Here's a look at which ones…

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For Subscribers

February 14, 2012

Editor Sean McDonald on Our Latest Subscriber Exclusive

We're rewarding subscribers with an advance edition of Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat Darkness:…

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My Library Photography The Latest

February 14, 2012

My Library: Michael Cunningham

Around the hardcover publication for Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall, I was fortunate enough to produce…

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Design

February 14, 2012

Amelia Gray’s Cautionary Notes

Amelia Gray grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her first collection of stories, AM/PM, was published…

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Excerpts On Writing The Latest

February 14, 2012

David Bezmozgis: On Literary Love

David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. His first book, Natasha and Other…

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Excerpts The Latest

February 14, 2012

Eric G. Wilson: Horror Is Good for You

Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University…

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