FSG Originals

05/03/2022

Happy publication day to Fernando A. Flores’s VALLEYESQUE! Swinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. "These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." —Kelly Link, author of
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03/23/2022

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to announce the foundation of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. ​​This year-long program is designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing: funding, editorial guidance, and advice on how to forge a writing career. The fellowship celebrates the spirit of the FSG list and its commitment to invention, curiosity, and extending the limits of literature. Mitzi Angel, president and publisher of FSG, says, “I’m delighted to announce the FSG writer’s fellowship, a program in keeping with our longtime commitment to thrilling new voices. I look forward to welcoming the fellow to the FSG community and providing them with a unique opportunity for artistic growth.”

The judges for the 2022 FSG Writer’s Fellowship are Sheila Heti, Katie Kitamura, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Interested individuals can apply starting April 1, 2022 and the deadline to apply is April 15. More information about the fellowship can be found at https://fsgfellowship.com/. The winner will be announced in August and the Fellowship will begin in September.

02/02/2022

🛸 COVER REVEAL INCOMING 💥 An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, TERRAFORM—in print for the very first time! TERRAFORM stories are marked by their convincing engagement with the world that we just might live in . . . Divided here into three categories—WATCH/WORLDS/BURN—these stories take on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. From editors Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, this collection is landing in bookstores on August 16, 2022! https://www.mcdbooks.com/news/terraform-reveal

02/13/2019

"I can see Michael; not out in the world, but in my mind, and sometimes in the mirror."

Read "Rainbow Baby," from Maryse Meijer's newest short story collection, RAG.

To celebrate Short Story Month, we’re publishing a new short story every week in May here and at mcdbooks.com. This week, we are delighted to publish an original story by Maryse Meijer (author of Heartbreaker) from her forthcoming collection, Rag. In “Rainbow Baby” Meijer gets dark. Real dark....

06/11/2018

"Welcome to the trippy valleys of southern New Mexico, where one can experience close encounters with a post-Snowden UFO convention, a family's harrowing trials as atomic "downwinders," a desert scavenger hunt for cartridges of one of the worst video games ever made. Your guide: a loquacious wordsmith à la David Foster Wallace."

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03/26/2018

Finally! Check out the cover for Brian Phillips's upcoming IMPOSSIBLE OWLS.

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03/15/2018

Yeah, you read that right. Durga Chew-Bose, author of last year's beloved TOO MUCH AND NOT THE MOOD, will be at the Auckland Writers Festival this May in conversation with none other than Lorde. Get your tickets now! (Yeah, we know it's far. But come on).

Durga Chew-Bose will be joined by Lorde at the Auckland Writers Festival this May!

03/06/2018

Happy pub day to Ted Scheinman and CAMP AUSTEN!

""[A] lively debut . . . This is a loving and often humorous tribute to the Janeites of the world." ―Publishers Weekly

A raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his....

02/22/2018

The film adaptation of ANNIHILATION is out TOMORROW! Author Jeff VanderMeer annotated the first chapter of the book for Genius when the book was released in 2014. Check it out here for some insider knowledge.

Revisiting Jeff VanderMeer's annotated Annihilation chapter.