Christopher Tilghman and Jonathan Galassi discuss Christopher's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family, and Volume 4 in The Novels of Mason’s Retreat series, On the Tobacco Coast. JONATHAN GALASSI: Chris, your novels about the Chesapeake are a project that...
A conversation between Clair Wills and her editor Jonathan Galassi about Missing Persons, and how Clair blends memoir with social history to movingly explore the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story. Jonathan Galassi: Clair, let's begin by talking...
Austral is Carlos Fonseca's second novel with FSG. The novel was translated by Megan McDowell, whose translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the O. Henry Prize, and have been nominated four times for the...
As part of our ongoing celebration of National Poetry Month we spoke with poet, designer, and longtime FSG collaborator Jeff Clark about his creative process, the ins and outs of creating distinctive and powerful book covers, and some of his many and varied influences....
A conversation between Justin Torres and his editor, Jenna Johnson, a week after his new novel Blackouts was announced. *** Jenna Johnson: Justin Torres, can you believe it? Here we are again on the brink of publishing your new book. We did this once before and...
Every year at FSG, we ask our staff to come together and talk about their “Best Books” of the year. This year, we asked them to tell us about an FSG book that they’ll be gifting along with their favorite books from 2022. JOSHUA PORTER ...
Enter below for a chance to win four of our upcoming Fall titles: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li, Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv, If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The author and award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller returned to short fiction this month for the first time since her collection of stories, Personal Velocity, with the arresting and darkly prescient Total. From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a...
While some people formed intense relationships with sourdough starters during the pandemic, I got over my Spotify antipathy and started making playlists. Turns out the art of choosing, rejecting, and arranging songs around a theme is just absorbing as it was when I was...
Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone—no warning, no note, not...
“You never asked questions about me,” I said to Nicole at the end of a brief relationship in which we only ever talked about her. “I didn’t have to,” she said, pointing to two of my poetry books on a nearby shelf. “I’ve read...
Richard Howard, author of Inner Voices and Paper Trail and acclaimed translator, died this week in Manhattan. He was 92. In honor of his memory, we would like to share "Like Most Revelations" from his collection Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003. “Like Most Revelations” It is the movement that...
Through the meadow and hedgerow, village and forest, cavalries on the march, infantries on the march, horses and cannons, old soldiers, young soldiers, children, wiry wolfhounds at full gallop, a blizzard of feathers, sleds, Black Marias, carriages, taxis, even the old cars called Moskwitch come roaring in, and warships and...
Enter below for a chance to win a set of our books that were featured in the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2021” list: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems by Louise...
Roberto Calasso died this year in July at the age of 80. His latest publication, The Book of All Books, was the tenth book in a series, a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch—every verse—may offer...
There’s a moment in my upcoming debut novel, Last Resort, when the protagonist, Caleb—SPOILER ALERT—puts clothes in a washer-dryer. “I [...] put my clothes in her washer-dryer.” Perhaps one of the least noteworthy sentences in my book—in any book?—it is now imprinted on my skull possibly forever....
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 limited-edition prize packages in celebration of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Crossroads. This box includes a copy of the book, a Crossroads t-shirt, a poster, a set of buttons, postcards, and guitar picks.
Enter for a chance to win a limited-edition prize boxes in celebration of Sally Rooney’s new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. This box includes a first edition book, a tote bag, a set of postcards, BWWAY pencils, and a very special Sally Rooney bucket...
We are excited to announce Jonathan Franzen's tour dates to support his highly anticipated book, Crossroads, which hits shelves October 5, 2021. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen...
Often I wake in the night, or the cat wakes me, and since I have been trying to break the habit of reaching for my phone—that express route to “the portal” (per Patricia Lockwood)—what do I do? Sometimes a yoga-inspired (and undoubtedly inauthentic) body...