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Operating as usual
"By placing a one-click order, we have been helping to flatten the curve," Alec MacGillis writes. What, he wonders, has been lost in the process.
How did it become a patriotic duty to buy online?
Join The Center for Fiction for The First Novel Fête! On Thursday, December 3rd, LUSTER, the novel by FSG author RAVEN LEILANI, will be treated to a dramatic reading alongside other best-of-year titles.
https://benefit.centerforfiction.org/the-first-novel-fete?utm_source=General+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=bc3fa76710-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_11_07_28_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5fe6362917-bc3fa76710-97161&mc_cid=bc3fa76710&mc_eid=4eff731c72
Celebrate with the seven First Novel Prize finalists, whose words will be performed by actors Leon Addison Brown, Morven Christie, Eisa Davis, Marin Ireland, Jen Richards, Austin Scott, and Pearl Sun.
Author Alex Ross talks about his new book, WAGNERISM, with opera expert Fred Plotkin on IDAGIO:
Fred Plotkin, pleasure activist and passionate opera expert, speaks each Friday with fascinating people in the music world. He is author of Opera 101 and Classical Music 101 and leads opera symposia for New York Times Journeys. In this episode: American music critic Alex Ross.
He has been the music critic at The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” a cultural history of music since 1900, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His second book, the essay collection “Listen to This,” won an ascap-Deems Taylor Award. His latest book is “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,” an account of Wagner’s vast cultural impact.
Tomorrow, join Jonathan Franzen for a FIRST READ of his forthcoming novel, CROSSROADS https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kgb-bar-homecoming-festival-jonathan-franzen-amity-gaige-jason-brown-tickets-126915239899
KGB Bar Lit Series former readers read their acclaimed & current work to raise funds to keep landmark KGB Bar alive post pandemic and beyond
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Jonathan Franzen’s CROSSROADS, the first novel in his trilogy A KEY TO ALL MYTHOLOGIES. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. Crossroads is scheduled to be published in October 2021.
Crossroads is the beginning of a story that encompasses all the “mythologies”—the political, religious, and intellectual crosscurrents—that have animated and troubled American life in recent decades. Not since The Corrections has an American novel explored how we live now with such intimacy, insight, and humor.
“Franzen has been universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, an inheritor of Steinbeck and Faulkner,” says FSG President Jonathan Galassi. “He has been telling us the inner history of contemporary America in novel after novel, from The Twenty-Seventh City to The Corrections to Freedom, culminating now in A Key to All Mythologies.”
Franzen will read at the KGB Bar Homecoming Festival on Tuesday, 17/11. You can RSVP online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kgb-bar-homecoming-festival-jonathan-franzen-amity-gaige-jason-brown-tickets-126915239899.
CONGRATULATIONS! TIME names Cleanness, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Jack, Luster, The Pink Line and 150 Glimpses of the Beatles to their 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2020:
https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2020/
Introducing this year's best fiction, nonfiction and poetry
A big CONGRATULATIONS to LUSTER author Raven Leilani, winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction--the youngest winner in prize's history! https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/11/05/raven-leilani-debut-novel-luster-wins-kirkus-prize/6182521002/
Raven Leilani's "Luster" is this year's winner of the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
“Democrats need to ask themselves: Why do many working people embrace a plutocrat-populist whose policies do little to help them? Democrats need to address the sense of humiliation felt by working people who feel the economy has left them behind and that credentialed elites look down on them.”
Michael Sandel talks about the consequences of the 2020 Election and The Tyranny of Merit with Thomas Friedman in The New York Times Opinion Section. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/trump-biden-election-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Trump’s ugly speech told us exactly where we’re going — and it’s nowhere good.
Congratulations to Louise Glück for winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature! FSG is proud to publish her and her amazing work.
Louise Gluck is one of the rare contemporary poets whose work has the power to speak directly to others through her great and subtle art. As the Nobel Committee said, her poetry's "austere beauty makes individual experience universal." This is very accurate. It's wonderful to have her astringent, witty, profoundly human voice, a voice that so richly reflects our own inner feelings and reactions, so broadly recognized. I'm sure the prize will bring her many, many new readers.
-Jonathan Galassi, President of FSG and Louise Glück’s editor
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary/
CONGRATULATIONS! Jonas Hassen Khemiri's THE FAMILY CLAUSE, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies, is a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature!
https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-family-clause/
Happy publication day to JACK, Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited return to the world of Gilead.
“Robinson is a singular figure in American fiction. She writes about faith without piousness, art without snobbery, and when she gets deep into her characters’ heads, gives their emotional crises complexity and contour... Robinson doesn’t deal in easy redemption stories or romantic happily-ever-afters; storm clouds hover over the final pages of Jack. But Robinson also conjures a sense of hard-won possibility... Robinson richly imagines Jack as he pulls off ‘his grandest larceny by far, this sly theft of happiness from the very clutches of prohibition.’” - Mark Athitakis, USA Today
Learn more:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279301
Join JACK author Marilynne Robinson in conversation with Michael Silverblatt via Barnes & Noble's virtual event series!
(Purchase of signed edition of JACK on website below by 9/27 is required to join event)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jack-marilynne-robinson/1136012532?ean=9780374602888
"In 2005, Marilynne Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead. In its citation, the Pulitzer committee said the novel offered “a hymn of praise and lamentation” to a “God-haunted existence.” In the books that followed, Home and Lila, Robinson continued to explore characters from the Iowa town she created—the eponymous Gilead—and, through them, themes of faith, existentialism, and connection. Now, with the sublime Jack, she resumes and deepens her quest, extending it to the contemplation of race."
O, The Oprah Magazine with a great review of Marilynne Robinson's new book, Jack.
It's a sublime novel.
How Wagner Shaped Hollywood:
An excerpt from Alex Ross' WAGNERISM in The New Yorker about how Richard Wagner infiltrated every phase of movie history, from silent pictures to superhero blockbusters.
The composer has infiltrated every phase of movie history, from silent pictures to superhero blockbusters.
Join debut novelist Raven Leilani as she talks with art director, Na Kim, and nail polish creator, Nexus Cook—collaborators on the launch and promotion of Leilani’s novel Luster.
Expect a wide-ranging conversation on art, the wonders of color, what it means to be a female artist today, and many other topics. The conversation will be moderated by Leilani’s editor, Jenna Johnson.
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/celebratingluster
Register now for Macmillan Publishers's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday July 22, 2020 at 12:30 pm EDT.
A note from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Join us tonight for a virtual conversation between Diary of a Drag Queen author Tom Rasmussen and community organizer and writer Adam Eli on Literary Hub's Virtual Book Channel!
Happening now!
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diaryofadragqueen
We are excited to reveal the cover for Marilynne Robinson's upcoming novel, Jack, publishing on September 29. Robinson returns to the world of Gilead for the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
In celebration of the publication of Jack, @Picador will be reissuing Gilead, Home, and Lila with new covers designed by Na Kim (@na_son) with paintings by Charles E. Burchfield (@bpartcenter)
In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports:
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, Jordan Kisner, author of Thin Places, turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/travel/travel-books-coronavirus.html
Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, a writer turns to books that evoke a sense of place — and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too.
"The first doctor to understand the importance of hygiene in stopping the spread of infectious disease was Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, who in the 1840s was working in the maternity department of Vienna’s General Hospital. At the time, the idea that the squalid conditions in hospitals played a role in spreading infection didn’t cross many doctors’ minds."
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris (The Chirurgeon's Apprentice) writes about the history of handwashing in the medical community and the doctor who tried to change dirty habits.
In 19th-century Vienna, Ignaz Semmelweis fought to convince his fellow doctors that washing their hands could save patients’ lives.
"Stevens’s writing proves that both time and technology are best understood in retrospect, sequences made logical long after each moment has passed. The novel has a romantic slowness, unfurling gracefully, little by little, to show how quickly the present gives way to the future, or concedes to the past."
Jessi Jezewska Stevens' debut novel The Exhibition of Persephone Q reviewed in The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/books/review/jesse-jezewska-stevens-the-exhibition-of-persphone-q.html
Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s debut novel, “The Exhibition of Persephone Q,” features a woman who is unwittingly the central subject of a photography show.
"Jordan Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in Thin Places, bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird’s-eye philosophizing) and comic relief . . . In 'The Other City,' about the months she spent reporting on death investigations and autopsies in Cleveland, Kisner writes: 'Leaving the office every night, I’d get breathless rushes of reality.' That’s a lot like what these essays feel like, too: reminders of the weird in-between feeling of being alive."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/books/review/thin-places-jordan-kisner.html
In “Thin Places,” the queer half-Mexican-American former Christian writer Jordan Kisner offers 13 views of the “in between.”
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
Jordan Kisner, author of THIN PLACES, writes for The New York Times.
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
Joanne McNeil's new book LURKING is out today! In it she charts the history of the internet through the experiences of the users. (The New York Times Books)
In “Lurking,” Joanne McNeil examines what it means to be a person online.
A writer whose father has just died begins to suspect the newly-vacated apartment above her might be haunted. Could it be, or is she simply experiencing a cruel trick of bereavement?
Read Laura van den Berg's "The Upstairs People" via O, The Oprah Magazine.
The upstairs neighbors moved out. So why are there still footsteps coming from their apartment?
What can we offer the child
at the border: a river of shoes,
her coat stitched with coins,
her father killed for his teeth,
her mother, sewing her
daughter’s future into a hem.
Keep reading Eliza Griswold's poem "Prayer" via The New York Times:
From Eliza Griswold’s searing “If Men, Then,” a book of inquiries into the hardest mysteries of human behavior.
"Saunders is easy to interview. He’s chatty, kind, quick to shoot down any glib analysis of his work, and free with an anecdote, often casting himself as a blunderer whose illusions land him in hot water. Back in his twenties, he played guitar in a country band, and at sixty he looks like a veteran Nashville sideman, with a tight beard and long red hair combed back from his forehead. His accent is working-class Chicagoan, slightly lilting. He often substitutes ya for you. The effect is that when he does say you, as he did when he told me, 'You have to let evil have broad shoulders,' it commands attention."
Benjamin Nugent, author of the forthcoming book FRATERNITY, interviews George Saunders for The Paris Review:
Photo by Chloe Aftel, courtesy of George Saunders My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he and his wife, the novelist Paula Saunders, had clea...
"Nearly every day now, my phone rings from numbers unknown to me. The area codes are always Californian, and always different. The calls started from cities in or near Los Angeles: Culver City, Inglewood, Marina del Rey. Then, once I stopped picking them up, they’d come from farther north: Merced, Turlock, Patterson, Stockton."
THIN PLACES author Jordan Kisner writes about the best string of robocalls she ever got, via Harper's Magazine:
From "Phone Calls from the Apocalypse," an essay in the collection Thin Places, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Nearly every day now, my phone rings from numbers unknown to me. The area codes are always Californian, and always different. The calls started from cities...
INDELICACY by Amina Cain is one of The New York Times Books' recommended books of the week!
"An aspiring writer marries a man she meets while mopping the floor at the museum where she works. He seems like the ticket to the life she wants—and yet. 'You’re a little bit jealous of this woman until you realize how miserable she is,' writes Elisabeth Egan, who chose Cain’s novel for Group Text, the Book Review’s monthly column for readers and book clubs. 'She has exactly what she thought she wanted, but the next phase of her life unfolds hypnotically as INDELICACY morphs from a modern "Pygmalion" into a fable infused with an old-fashioned moral: Be careful what you wish for.' Cain’s small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic."
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
"In the beginning, Republicans stood far to the left of Democrats on most issues."
The Wall Street Journal reviews LeeAnna Keith's history of the Republican party, WHEN IT WAS GRAND.
Abraham Lincoln did not act alone, and very often did not act as boldly as his strongest supporters would have liked.
Vanity Fair recommends THE EXHIBITION OF PERSEPHONE Q by Jessi Jezewska Stevens!
"When a slightly aimless young woman living in post-9/11 New York is surprised to see herself in the untitled lead image of her former fiancé’s photography exhibit, she sets off on a quest to discover his motives—and, with help from interesting acquaintances, a larger truth."
Novels fit for a cross-country plane ride, plus items to sweeten the trip.
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Watch the teaser trailer for THE LIGHT YEARS by Chris Rush, a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history.
“I have always lived in the myth of New York more than its reality.” #severancethenovel
There's still time to get a ticket for National Sawdust's celebration of Sam Stephenson's GENE SMITH'S SINK 10/26 at 7:30pm, featuring readings by Stephenson, live musical performances, and a screening of "Chuck-will’s-widow," a short film by Jem Cohen inspired by the book. You won't want to miss it!
Sloane Crosley, best known for her hysterical essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number?, is debuting her first novel, The Clasp, this fall.
Answering readers' questions about the new novel and the writing life.
We're very excited to announce our "Journey to the Exoplanets" iPad app, several months in the works, is now live in the app store. It's the first title in our new imprint with Scientific American magazine; here's a sneak peek at the app itself. More info at http://www.the-exoplanets.com/
Atlanta journalist Melissa Fay Greene discusses how she came to write "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet," the poignant and hilarious story of how she and her husband, already the parents of four bio children, adopt five more children from Bulgaria and Ethiopia.
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