November 16, 2010
The Many Lives of The Secret Historian
Here are just a few of the images, objects, and papers that Sam Steward left…
November 16, 2010
Jonathan Galassi on Translating Giacomo Leopardi
As this glimpse at the proofs of my versions of Leopardi’s Canti suggests, a translation,…
November 16, 2010
Our Live National Event with Michael Sandel
I took a quick trip to Boston last weekend to produce our teleforum event with…
November 16, 2010
The FSG Reading Series with Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier recently read from his new book Travels in Siberia at the Russian Samovar in…
October 14, 2010
President Barack Obama on Nelson Mandela
It's a privilege to help usher in Nelson Mandela's Conversations with Myself, an international publishing event.…
October 14, 2010
Two Translators on Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa
When the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature announcement went out last week, we were thrilled…
October 14, 2010
Editor & Author: Marion Duvert and Richard Howard on Barthes
I met with Richard Howard on a bright October morning in his apartment near Washington…
October 14, 2010
A Harvard Course, a Bestselling Author, and a Live National Event
Would you sacrifice one life to save five? Is it okay to steal a drug…
October 14, 2010
A Literary Journal on Every Platform: Electric Literature
It may seem foolish to start a literary journal at a time when fewer people…
September 16, 2010
Rivka Galchen Interviews Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian, the author of two novels and a short-story collection, is one of our…
September 16, 2010
An Interview with Dan Bejar of Destroyer
Dan Bejar is something of a musical polymath. He releases albums as the front man…
September 16, 2010
Pairing Novels and Albums: Two Attempts
If we can pair wine with food, why not novels with albums? The subtextual kinship…
September 16, 2010
The FSG Reading Series with Lydia Davis
FSG hosts a reading series at the Russian Samovar in New York, most recently with Lydia…
September 16, 2010
The Archives: Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of The Magician of Lublin, Lorin Stein, the…
August 15, 2010
Jonathan Franzen on Author Videos and the Novel
We are very excited about Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, his first novel since The Corrections. He recently stopped…
August 15, 2010
Editor & Author: Sarah Crichton and Ishmael Beah
I published Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier in 2007.…
August 15, 2010
The Archives: Alice McDermott
A few months before Charming Billy's publication in December 1997, Alice McDermott recorded a brief interview…
August 15, 2010
New Poetry by Eliza Griswold
You may know Eliza Griswold from her journalism at The Atlantic, The New Yorker, or…
July 14, 2010
Editor & Author: Jonathan Galassi and Jeffrey Eugenides
One of the most anticipated new books around the FSG offices (and out in the…
July 14, 2010
The Archives: Susan Sontag
"It is difficult, as you know, to create interest in new writers." -FSG letter introducing…