Farrar, Straus and Giroux

03/10/2022

WAGING A GOOD WAR: A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1956-1968 is out October 2022. #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a groundbreaking new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. WAGING A GOOD WAR is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change—and one that offers vital lessons for our own time. Cover design by Alex Merto.

https://bit.ly/3KCewZF

03/08/2022

🐾 ✍️ AND A DOG CALLED FIG: SOLITUDE, CONNECTION, THE WRITING LIFE by Helen Humphreys is out today! A memoir of the writing life told through the dogs Humphreys has lived with and loved over a lifetime, including Fig, her new Vizsla puppy. Interspersed are stories of other writers and their own irreplaceable companions: Virginia Woolf and Grizzle, Gertrude Stein and Basket, Thomas Hardy and Wessex—who walked the dining table at dinner parties, taking whatever he liked—and many more. AND A DOG CALLED FIG is a love song to the dogs who come into our lives and all that they bring ❤️ Jacket designed by Na Kim

https://bit.ly/35Wg7Ku

03/01/2022

March is here and so are these new titles! 📚 Sarah Moss is back! THE FELL is a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the ever-nearness of disaster. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it asks probing questions about how close so many live to the edge and about who we are in the world, who we are to our neighbors, and who we become when the world demands we shut ourselves away. 🏃"Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man’s humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth—what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction." (Jennifer Egan, author of #ManhattanBeach). RUN AND HIDE is Pankaj Mishra’s story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships. 🗳️ From Michael Kazin, WHAT IT TOOK TO WIN: A HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY tells the story of the United States’ most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for “moral capitalism,” from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden. ✍️ Also new today in #nonfiction, is THE GREATEST INVENTION by Silvia Ferrara a translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. 💚 And from MCD x FSG, THE DOLORIAD is a macabre, provocative, depraved, and unforgettable novel that marks the debut of Missouri Williams, a terrifyingly original new voice.

THE FELL: https://bit.ly/340yOw5

RUN AND HIDE: https://bit.ly/3Ce6Qdb

WHAT IT TOOK TO WIN: https://bit.ly/3C1wotV

THE GREATEST INVENTION: https://bit.ly/3K4c2CO

THE DOLORIAD: https://bit.ly/3pLkGyH

02/28/2022

🌟COVER REVEAL - We’re excited to partner with Oprah Daily to share the cover for IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffrey! Blazing with style and heart, #IfISurviveYou is a major debut that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces Escoffery as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful. Coming from MCD x FSG on 9/6, cover designed by Na Kim #CoverReveal https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a39207435/jonathan-escoffery-if-i-survive-you-cover/

02/23/2022

🎉 Four FSG authors are finalists for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes! Congratulations to THE RECENT EAST by Thomas Grattan, SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon, WILDLAND by Evan Osnos, and THE REASON FOR THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT by John Tresch 🥳 🎊 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-02-23/2022-book-prizes-finalists

02/22/2022

LIFE BETWEEN THE TIDES is out today! 🦀🐚🦐 Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. “The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello.” 🎨Jacket by June Park

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374251437/life-between-the-tides

02/22/2022

FSG mourns the death of Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the great thinkers and doers of our time. In the institutions he helped build and in his tireless advocacy for a world where the prospects for health and human flourishing are truly equal, he enhanced countless lives around the world. And in his forceful, eloquent writing, he transformed his vision of public health into a public testament. We are grateful to have known him and proud to have published his book on Ebola and the ravages of history.
—Alex Star, Executive Editor, FSG Books

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/obituaries/paul-farmer-dead.html

02/18/2022

SWEEPSTAKES 📚 FSG is giving away three galleys of Will Jawando's MY SEVEN BLACK FATHERS, an inspiring memoir that narrates the story of a young boy and the seven black men who acted as his fathers and mentors, coming 5/17. Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. Drawing on his inspiring personal story and involvement in My Brother's Keeper Alliance, President Obama’s national initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color, #MySevenBlackFathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation. Head to our Instagram post to enter for a chance to win! https://www.instagram.com/p/CaFgZ_2hJ1C/

02/15/2022

Happy publication day to PURE COLOUR by Sheila Heti, JENA 1800 by Peter Neumann, and TRUE STORY by Danielle J. Lindemann! 🍃 PURE COLOUR is a galaxy of a novel, taking place in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. 📺 What do we see when we watch reality television? TRUE STORY is a sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality. Lindemann holds up a mirror to our society: the reflection may not always be pretty—but we can’t look away. ✨ And in JENA 1800, an award-winning poet and philosopher reveals the history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world. With wit and elegance, Peter Neumann brings this remarkable circle of friends and rivals to life in a work of intellectual history that is colorful and passionate, informative and intimate—as fresh and full of surprises as its subjects. Happy reading! 🎨 PURE COLOUR jacket design by Na Kim with artwork by #EllsworthKelly, TRUE STORY jacket design by EvaKate Gabrielsen and JENA 1800 jacket design by Alison Forner

PURE COLOUR: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374603946/pure-colour

TRUE STORY: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374720964/true-story

JENA 1800: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374178697/jena-1800

02/11/2022

COVER REVEAL 🍊 🦢 THE BOOK OF GOOSE is a propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. We’re thrilled to partner with Belletrist to share this gorgeous cover art by Na Kim, and to let you know to make some room on your TBR pile for fall reading. You won’t want to miss this magnificent tale from the award-winning author of #WhereReasonsEnd coming September 20, 2022! 🧡

Learn more and preorder: https://bit.ly/3uQ5Ie7

02/01/2022

Kick off February with these new releases! 📚 Happy publication day to EATING TO EXTINCTION by Dan Saladino, DILLA TIME by Dan Charnas, THEN THE WAR by Carl Phillips, and STRING FOLLOW by Simon Jacobs! 🍲 Dan Saladino's EATING TO EXTINCTION is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever. From an Indigenous American chef refining precolonial recipes to farmers tending Geechee red peas on the Sea Islands of Georgia, the individuals profiled in this book are essential guides to treasured foods and provide a roadmap to a food system that is healthier, more robust, and, above all, richer in flavor and meaning. 🎶 Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, DILLA TIME chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. From MCD x FSG this is the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. 📖 THEN THE WAR is a new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips. This collection is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry. 🧵 And from FSG Originals, STRING FOLLOW is a darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs. Simon Jacobs blends the startlingly original and the uncannily familiar, revealing the dark chaos that lurks beneath the surface of Midwestern suburbia.

01/28/2022

Cover reveal! STRANGERS TO OURSELVES, the highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning The New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv, compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are. “Aviv has created an arresting work of profound empathy and insight." (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN 🗓️ Mark your calendars for September 13, 2022! https://bit.ly/3g7N6xA

Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral Studio and Katelyn Jensen.

01/25/2022

📚💥 MCD x FSG has two exciting publications out today! 😈 🏠 DEVIL HOUSE is a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession from the Mountain Goats’s John Darnielle. "Suspenseful, brilliant and chaotically addicting, DEVIL HOUSE triumphs as a page-turning metafictional treatise on the power of narratives cloaked in the trappings of a certifiable true crime classic." - Datebook SF ⚡ Morgan Thomas's MANYWHERE is a shimmering debut featuring lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geographical borders and gender binaries. "Wonderful stories. Impressive range. Delightfully, compellingly queer." Roxane Gay 💗 We can’t wait for you to read these new fiction releases!

https://devilhousebook.com/

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602482/manywhere

01/14/2022

📣 BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU was an instant #1 The New York Times bestseller in hardcover, was the winner of the coveted Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, and topped countless Best of 2021 lists. And now, FSG/Picador USA is excited to announce that BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU is coming to paperback on June 7, 2022! We can’t wait for summer reading with #BWWAY ☀️ 📖

“Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” Brandon Taylor for The New York Times Books ⭐ “A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.” The Guardian ⭐ “The book moved me to tears more than once . . . Rooney’s best novel.” The Times and The Sunday Times

01/13/2022

Cover reveal! Coming June 2022, the award-winning author of #TheButcheringArt presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. Cover design by Teal Cartoons.

It is with great pride, and not a little trepidation, that I can reveal both the US (left) and UK (right) COVERS of #TheFacemaker - the harrowing tale of the surgeon Harold Gillies and the soldiers whose faces he rebuilt during #WWI. The book will be released in both countries on June 7th.

Each publisher comes up with their own design, and it is always a thrill to see how my stories are interpreted.In the case of the US cover, my husband Teal Cartoons came up with the concept. It pays homage to Harold Gillies's famous book, The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (photo in comments). I think you'll agree: both covers are brilliant and capture the essence of this tale, which is not only about one man, but about many men.

As many of you know, I've been working on this book for the last five years. It has been a huge undertaking, and my only hope is that I have done these men justice in the retelling of their stories. Pre-orders are vital to the success of a book, and I would be grateful for your support. Links below, including how to pre-order SIGNED COPIES should you want one. I can't wait to share with you what I've learned!

US pre-orders: https://bit.ly/3K6olzB

UK pre-orders: https://smarturl.it/thefacemaker