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07/23/2024

Happy publication day to SEEING THROUGH: S*X, DRUGS, AND OPERA by Ricky Ian Gordon! SEEING THROUGH is the true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." Gordon writes with humor, insight, and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island, his artistic collaborations and obsessions, the creation of his compositions (including ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, ‘27’, ‘Orpheus and Euridice’, ‘Intimate Apparel’, ‘Ellen West’, and more), his addictions and the abuses he endured, and the loss of his partner to AIDS and the devastation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As Gordon writes of that period: “We were, thousands of us, Lazarus. We had to rise from the ashes. We didn’t have to rebuild our lives, we had to build new ones.” Gordon has succeeded in building a remarkable life, as well as a body of work that bears witness to all he survived in the process—one that will endure as a pivotal chapter in America's songbook. https://bit.ly/4bX8XC4

07/18/2024

Coming February 4, 2025! In SOFT CORE by Brittany Newell, a young woman’s madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground. SOFT CORE is a brutally funny, propulsive story of power, fantasy, love, and loss. It is an ode to the heartbroken and unhinged, to those whose appetites lead them astray. It is a hallucinogenic romp about a girl coming undone, whose longing for friendship, romance, and revenge will take her over the edge and back again.

About the book: Ruth is lost. She’s living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her master’s degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes Baby Blue, seductress of crypto bros, outcasts, and old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful women, fast cash, ungodly hours, and strangers’ secrets, Baby’s grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle it—until one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace. Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still loves—through the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive bars and bus depots; at the B**M dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the way, she meets Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing su***de fetishist named Nobody; and Emeline, the beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone . . .

"SOFT CORE is a beautiful fever dream, a slippery, captivating pleasure, a love story stuffed inside a wadded nylon stocking. It’s a novel that wants to get close to you. It wants to bite your neck; it’s the actual promise of a hickey. I can’t remember the last book I read that was even half as tender. I ate it up." (Kristen Arnett)

07/11/2024

Cover reveal! In his crackling new novel, Andrew Lipstein makes you question everyone, everything, and—above all—the very nature of truth. SOMETHING ROTTEN by Andrew Lipstein is coming to bookstores January 21, 2025. Preorder this twisting, thrilling tale of loyalty and deceit now! Jacket design by Na Kim. https://bit.ly/3S3LBnl

About the book:
Cecilie is a fed-up New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging stay-at-home dad. Neither can wait to flee New York and spend the summer in Copenhagen, Denmark, Cecilie’s hometown. But their vacation begins to turn inside out as soon as they land: Cecilie’s first love, Jonas, has been diagnosed with a rare, fatal illness. All her friends are desperate to get him help—except for Mikkel, a high-powered journalist who happens to be the only one Jonas will listen to. Mikkel’s influence quickly extends to Reuben, who’s not only intoxicated by Mikkel’s charm but discovers in him a new model of masculinity—one he found hopelessly absent in America. As Mikkel indoctrinates Reuben with ever more depraved stunts, Reuben senses something is seriously amiss. Cecilie, too, begins to question who to trust—even herself. Drawn in by the gravity of the past, she can’t help but stray onto the road not taken.

07/10/2024

A new Oliver Burkeman book is coming October 8! MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS takes us on a liberating, invigorating journey toward a more meaningful life—a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves. It brings themes at the heart of Burkeman’s bestselling into our daily lives. Looking beyond the challenges of time management to the most fundamental questions about how to live, offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life that calls “imperfectionism.”

will be a source of solace and inspiration and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In our anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more. Preorder now! https://bit.ly/45Xhd3O

07/09/2024

Happy publication day to DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION: A HANDBOOK FOR CHANGE edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria Hawilo, and MY GLORIOUS DEFEATS: HACKTIVIST, NARCISSIST, ANONYMOUS: A MEMOIR by Barrett Brown!

From FSG Originals, DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION is a vital reader on ending mass incarceration featuring advocates, experts, and formerly incarcerated people. https://bit.ly/3zwIcam

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. MY GLORIOUS DEFEATS is his story. From MCD x FSG. https://bit.ly/3XX1wYd

07/09/2024

STATE OF PARADISE is out today! A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg.

Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends a growing amount of time using MIND’S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA, a tech company in South Florida, during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it’s not just the ominous cats, her mother’s burgeoning cult, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern—something is off in the town, and it probably has to do with the posters of missing citizens spread throughout the streets. During a violent rainstorm, the writer’s sister goes missing for several days. When she returns, sprawled on their mother’s lawn and speaking of another dimension, the writer is forced to investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of storytelling, STATE OF PARADISE is an interlocking and page-turning whirlwind. https://bit.ly/45PmKJP

06/25/2024

PRACTICE by Rosalind Brown is out today! An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, fantasies and wishes as she writes about—or tries to write about—Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Rosalind Brown's PRACTICE shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows a meticulous, solitary routine but finds it repeatedly thrown off course as the day progresses: by family and friends who demand her attention and time, by thoughts of her much older boyfriend and his impending visit, by wild sexual fantasies and stories of her own invented characters—and by darker crises, obliquely glimpsed but capable of derailing Annabel's carefully laid plans. https://bit.ly/4ezexNu

Also new in , Frederick Seidel’s SO WHAT is a bristling, beautiful new collection from “the Dark Prince of American Poetry” (, ) https://bit.ly/45wQ3jQ

06/20/2024

Cover reveal! The author of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood. In ROMAN YEAR, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman’s family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment in Rome’s Via Clelia. Though dejected, Aciman’s mother and brother found their way into life in Rome, while Aciman, still unmoored, burrowed into his bedroom to read one book after the other. The world of novels eventually allowed him to open up to the city and, through them, discover the beating heart of the Eternal City. In this memoir, the author, a genius of "the poetry of the place" (John Domini, The Boston Globe), conjures the sights, smells, tastes, and people of Rome as only he can. Aciman captures, as if in amber, a living portrait of himself on the brink of adulthood and the city he worshipped at that pivotal moment. ROMAN YEAR is a treasure, unearthed by one of our greatest prose stylists. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613389/roman-year

06/18/2024

Happy pub day to PARADE by Rachel Cusk, THOM GUNN: A COOL Q***R LIFE by , and WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE: CON MEN, CONSPIRACIES, AND HOW AMERICA CRACKS U0P IN THE EARLY 1990S by John Ganz!

PARADE by , author of the , is a startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives. https://bit.ly/3KMZS3L

’s THOM GUNN: A COOL Q***R LIFE is a no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, ). https://bit.ly/4c93RUj

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE is John Ganz’s lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today. https://bit.ly/3XrYISN

06/11/2024

Happy publication day to HIP-HOP IS HISTORY by , MOONBOUND by , ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF by , GRETEL AND THE GREAT WAR by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, and PROVERBS OF LIMBO by Robert Pinsky!

From AUWA Books, HIP-HOP IS HISTORY is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of . https://bit.ly/3VE05N5

In MOONBOUND, Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. https://bit.ly/3RpNqdT

ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF features contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of . Out today from FSG Originals. https://bit.ly/42jKpjK

Also from FSG Originals, GRETEL AND THE GREAT WAR is a lean, seductive, and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth-century Vienna. https://bit.ly/3RkssNy

New in , PROVERBS OF LIMBO, a new book from three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). https://bit.ly/4b0JrLY

06/04/2024

Happy publication day to THE OTHER OLYMPIANS by Michael Waters, TELL ME WHO YOU ARE by Louisa Luna, and ROLE PLAY by Clara Drummond!

THE OTHER OLYMPIANS: FACISM, Q***RNESS, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SPORTS is the story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture wars. Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Zdeněk Koubek, Mark Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era. This book is a groundbreaking, hidden-in-the-archives marvel, an inspiring call for equality, and an essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in sports. https://bit.ly/4c4oelg

From MCD x FSG, TELL ME WHO YOU ARE is a sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient. meets in this utterly gripping psychological thriller that begs the question: Can a person ever really outrun their past? https://bit.ly/4bPHvHh

Clara Drummond’s ROLE PLAY is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening. Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn, Drummond’s prose is seductively frank and unflinching in its depiction of wealth’s power to warp the self. From FSG Originals. https://bit.ly/4e9rXQk

06/03/2024

📣 The application period for the 2024 FSG Writer’s Fellowship is now open! FSG announced the foundation of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship in 2021 as a year-long program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing and to offer the unique opportunity for a writer to spend time with and enjoy the support and mentorship of the FSG community. The fellowship celebrates FSG’s commitment to invention, curiosity, and extending the limits of literature.

The application period begins on May 30, 2024, and ends June 30, 2024 . More information about the fellowship can be found at fsgfellowship.com. The Fellowship winner will be announced in December 2024, and the Fellowship will begin in January 6, 2025. Share the news, writers!

05/28/2024

Happy pub day to THE HAMILTON SCHEME: AN EPIC TALE OF MONEY AND POWER IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING by William Hogeland and ACTS: POEMS by Spencer Reece!

In THE HAMILTON SCHEME, William Hogeland tells the story of how Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity. "William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander” (J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of ). https://bit.ly/4dW2Q3g

ACTS is a book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece—his first collection in ten years. The product of a decade of work and of a life acutely lived, ACTS confronts grief and love, loneliness and self-acceptance, with honesty, artful lyricism, and, above all, a true and luminous grace. https://bit.ly/4dVLbsx

05/22/2024

FSG is pleased to share the cover for INTERMEZZO, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. On sale September 24, 2024.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Designed by June Park and Rodrigo Corral
Animation by Mehmet Yildirim via Moonpool

05/21/2024

New today in ! Drawing on cutting-edge science and intimate personal stories, HOW WE BREAK is an essential and paradigm-shifting book for readers struggling with fatigue, burnout, stress, and trauma—and for all of us who sometimes feel like we have been pushed past our breaking point. In HOW WE ARE (2014), the health psychologist and author Vincent Deary explored the process of habit and change in everyday life. In HOW WE BREAK, a deeply compassionate and illuminating exploration of suffering, he examines what happens when we are pushed to our limit. “An empathetic and searching meditation on some of humanity’s deepest psychological questions.” () https://bit.ly/3yBq4eI

05/14/2024

Happy publication day to THE RED GROVE by Tessa Fontaine, ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE by Carvell Wallace, and AMERICAN BLOODS by John Kaag!

In Tessa Fontaine’s debut novel, the Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by its founder, Tamsen Nightingale. Some say the mountain lions stalking the nearby hills guard its mysteries and its boundaries. Some say the mighty redwoods keep its people safe. There are secrets beneath every community. When Luce’s mother goes missing, she uncovers the hidden secrets beneath her protected community. https://bit.ly/3WB4MYN

From MCD x FSG, ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE is a transformative memoir, excavating layers of Carvell Wallace’s own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and q***r in America, in order to reimagine the conventions of love and posit a radical vision for healing. https://bit.ly/3WHFYyq

John Kaag’s AMERICAN BLOODS follows the history of a family spanning centuries and continents—one that unfolds into a new portrait of America. An enduring reminder of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States, and a composite portrait of America like no other. https://bit.ly/3UyzzCI

05/07/2024

Happy publication day to AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN by Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker! This book is a wonderfully unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world. Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them, with each entry gorgeously illustrated with brilliant many-layered watercolors by Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists. There has never been a book so inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal. https://bit.ly/44sp9JF

04/30/2024

THE WAY THAT LEADS AMONG THE LOST: LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN MEXICO CITY’S ANEXOS by Angela Garcia is out today! Based on more than a decade of research, this book is a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.

This is the first book ever written on the anexos. Garcia, who spent a decade conducting anthropological fieldwork in Mexico City, draws readers into their many dimensions, casting light on the mothers and their children who are entangled in this hidden world. Following the stories of its denizens, she asks what these places are, why they exist, and what they reflect about Mexico and the wider world. With extraordinary empathy and a sharp eye for detail, Garcia attends to the lives that the anexos both sustain and erode, wrestling with the question of why mothers turn to them as a site of refuge even as they reproduce violence. Woven into these portraits is Garcia’s own powerful story of family, childhood, homelessness, and drugs—a blend of ethnography and memoir converging on a set of fundamental questions about the many forms and meanings that violence, love, care, family, and hope may take. https://bit.ly/3xZZ74k

04/24/2024

Get ready for new Garth Greenwell, coming this fall! SMALL RAIN is a searching, sweeping novel about a medical crisis that brings one man close to death––and to love, art, and beauty. Coming to bookstores on September 3, 2024.

“SMALL RAIN is a marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true. Greenwell’s sensibility is rich and generous—the narrator's memories are haunting, and his experiences of both illness and love are deeply affecting. You are in the room with him. This is a true achievement, written with engaged humanity and a great command of style.” (Colm Tóibín, author of .)

Preorder now for September 3! https://bit.ly/44cq1Sw
Cover artwork and design by Thomas Colligan.

04/23/2024

MINORITY RULE by Ari Berman and DOUBLE EXPOSURE by Robert Sullivan are both in bookstores today! MINORITY RULE is a riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them. DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America’s greatest photographers, Timothy O’Sullivan. Pick up these new nonfiction reads from your favorite bookstore today!

MINORITY RULE: https://bit.ly/3w1h4Pj
DOUBLE EXPOSURE: https://bit.ly/3UsWcd7

04/23/2024

MINORITY RULE by Ari Berman is out today, everywhere books are sold. https://bit.ly/3w1h4Pj

Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite minority — and that their decisions continue to impact American democracy today.

04/16/2024

Happy pub day to ON THE TO***CO COAST by Christopher Tilghman! ON THE TO***CO COAST is the culmination of Tilghman’s great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family. It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason’s Retreat. Told with irony and deep insight, ON THE TO***CO COAST is Christopher Tilghman’s concluding meditation on the themes of his novels about this ancestral monument: the pride and shame in its long history, the persistence of family stories, race and privilege, the enigmas and customs of regions. It reflects on the state of America today, with its battles with its own history and efforts to reckon with the wrongs of the past while looking forward to an uncertain, more just future. Now in bookstores!

https://bit.ly/3W0lDDX

04/09/2024

🌟 Happy pub day to BONES WORTH BREAKING by David Martinez and ROUGH TRADE by Katrina Carrasco, both out today from MCD x FSG!

David Martinez’s BONES WORTH BREAKING is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the brutal global forces that let so many poor young men of color fall perilously through the cracks. Flipping and soaring like a pro skater, Martinez defies a linear telling of his life and tackles topics from abuse and racism to writing and capturing the meaning of the specific nostalgia of saudade in this powerful memoir. https://bit.ly/3xw8jx5

In ROUGH TRADE, Katrina Carrasco plunges readers into the vivid, rough-and-tumble world of the late-1800s Pacific Northwest in this genre- and gender-blurring novel. ROUGH TRADE reimagines q***r communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures—and price—of satisfying desire. https://bit.ly/3PWGXGz

04/02/2024

Two new poetry books are out in bookstores today on this second day of ! Victoria Chang’s WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD is a new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection OBIT. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, ’s new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ, edited by Ben Mazer, is the first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century" (John Berryman). This book brings together all of Schwartz’s poetry for the very first time, from his groundbreaking debut collection to his unpublished late work, which he kept writing until his death. Also new today in is MISSING PERSONS: OR, MY GRANDMOTHER’S SECRETS by Clair Wills. Blending memoir with social history, Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story. To discover the missing pieces of her family’s story, Clair searched across archives and nations, in a journey that would take her from the 1890s to the 1980s, from West Cork to rural Suffolk and Massachusetts, from absent fathers to the grief of a lost child. The result is a moving, exquisitely told account of the secrets families keep, and the violence carried out in their name.

WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD: https://bit.ly/4cFs31d
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ: https://bit.ly/3PFNTrK
MISSING PERSONS: https://bit.ly/3vA947w

04/01/2024

Happy National Poetry Month! During the month of April, FSG celebrates the art of verse by featuring a poem read by a favorite FSG author each weekday (Monday-Friday), both as a video here and on our FSG Poetry Hotline. ☎️ Give us a call at 385-DIAL-FSG (385-342-5374) to listen. April is not just a celebration of the joy and history of poetry in our culture, but also a moment to celebrate FSG’s poets and books of poetry that we’ve been thrilled to bring to publication for over 75 years.

03/26/2024

Happy publication day to ON THE MOVE: THE OVERHEATING EARTH AND THE UPROOTING OF AMERICA by Abrahm Lustgarten, JUDAISM IS ABOUT LOVE: RECOVERING THE HEART OF JEWISH LIFE by Shai Held, ON GIVING UP by Adam Phillips, and INVISIBLE MENDING: THE BEST OF C. K. WILLIAMS by C. K. Williams.

Abrahm Lustgarten gives a vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible. Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and ON THE MOVE is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. Reporting from the front lines of climate migration and employing the most current climate data and predictive models, Lustgarten shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk, and ON THE MOVE reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences. https://bit.ly/43yE6Jv

JUDAISM IS ABOUT LOVE is a profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. Rabbi Shai Held—one of the most important Jewish thinkers in America today—seeks to reclaim Judaism as it authentically is. He shows that love is foundational and constitutive of true Jewish faith, animating the singular Jewish perspective on injustice and protest, grace, family life, responsibilities to our neighbors and even our enemies, and chosenness. https://bit.ly/3IPv6X7

From the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, ON GIVING UP is a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment—an attempt to make a different future. https://bit.ly/49f8ytk

INVISIBLE MENDING is the essential collection of C. K. Williams’s work. Selected by his family and friends and with an introduction by the award-winning poet Alan Shapiro, this book charts Williams’s path from gifted young poet to his status as one of the most consequential poets of his—or any—generation. “If American poetry today is, as I believe it is, more diverse than ever,” Shapiro writes, “more open to any and all forms of life, more vitally engaged with a world external to the self and shared with others, it’s because of what the poems in this volume accomplished. https://bit.ly/3vrWffw

03/19/2024

Two incredible nonfiction books are out in bookstores today: CANDY DARLING: DREAMER, ICON, SUPERSTAR by Cynthia Carr and WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER? by Judith Butler.

The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Cynthia Carr presents the first full portrait of Candy Darling, an unintentional pioneer who became a superstar.

Judith Butler’s WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER? offers an essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world. Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless—a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.

CANDY DARLING: https://bit.ly/4ciYcLP
WHO'S AFRAID OF GENDER?: https://bit.ly/49VNw4r

03/12/2024

READING GENESIS by Marilynne Robinson is out today! One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. Out today from MCD x FSG is LITTLE UNDERWORLD, Chris Harding Thornton’s gripping Omaha mystery that asks what does it mean to be good, and what is left for those of us who aren’t? The paperback of DRAGONS, the seventh book of poems from Devin Johnston, is also in bookstores today for your spring poetry reading.

READING GENESIS: https://bit.ly/3OdVX2z
LITTLE UNDERWORLD: https://bit.ly/49QC5L1
DRAGONS: https://bit.ly/3wRLFif

03/05/2024

Happy publication day to CHANGE by Édouard Louis, FEEDING GHOSTS by Tessa Hulls, TO BE A JEW TODAY by Noah Feldman, and SILVER by Rowan Ricardo Phillips! CHANGE is an autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation—about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. From , FEEDING GHOSTS is an astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. TO BE A JEW TODAY is a leading public intellectual’s timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. SILVER is Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth poetry collection, a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.

CHANGE: https://bit.ly/432d7G0
FEEDING GHOSTS: https://bit.ly/3wHKKRy
TO BE A JEW TODAY: https://bit.ly/3wD2H3r
SILVER: https://bit.ly/432ycA5