January 16, 2011
Mario Vargas Llosa: How I Lost My Fear of Flying
Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 “for his cartography…
January 16, 2011
Editor & Author: Jonathan Galassi and Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Heavenly Questions, Gjertrud Schnackenberg's recently published sixth book of poems, is a remarkably moving and,…
January 16, 2011
Writing Your Own Alphabetical Love Story
To coincide with David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary, he's asking readers to create their own…
January 16, 2011
It Gets Better – E. M. Forster and Sam Steward
Two of our writers contacted us about creating a video for the "It Gets Better"…
December 15, 2010
The Best and Worst Gift
Paul Murray is the author of the novels Skippy Dies (shortlisted for the 2010 Costa…
December 15, 2010
When and Why to MFA, If Ever
With the recent spate of articles debating MFA programs and the kind of writing they…
December 15, 2010
The FSG Reading Series with David Bezmozgis
We are thrilled to feature New Yorker "20 Under 40" writer David Bezmozgis reading from…
December 15, 2010
The Archives: Mark Strand Reads Joseph Brodsky
We've noticed a surge of interest in Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky centered around the recent…
November 16, 2010
Wikileaks and War Poetry
Daniel Swift is the author of Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War.…
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…