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12/06/2022

Happy publication day to A LEFT-HANDED WOMAN by Judith Thurman, SYBIL & CYRIL: CUTTING THROUGH TIME by Jenny Uglow, THIS AFTERLIFE by A.E. Stallings and a new paperback edition of A.E. Stalling’s ARCHAIC SMILE! 📚Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at , has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A LEFT-HANDED WOMAN. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, SYBIL & CYRIL is a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. New in , THIS AFTERLIFE is a selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator. We’re also excited to be publishing a new edition of A. E. Stallings's first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award, ARCHAIC SMILE.

A LEFT-HANDED WOMAN: https://bit.ly/3VQWSXt
SYBIL & CYRIL: https://bit.ly/3BaJlCj
THIS AFTERLIFE: https://bit.ly/3VWWl6F
ARCHAIC SMILE: https://bit.ly/3HceUiN

12/01/2022

From contemporary to classics, we’ve got gift recommendations for the poetry lover in your life: https://bookshop.org/lists/2022-poetry-gift-guide

11/30/2022

Gift recommendations for readers who read like it’s every month of the year!
https://bookshop.org/lists/2022-nonfiction-gift-guide

11/29/2022

Strangers to Ourselves - New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022

💥 🎉 🏆 🤩 STRANGERS TO OURSELVES is a New York Times Best Book of 2022! Congratulations Rachel Aviv!! 🥳Join us in celebrating Aviv and her groundbreaking book exploring mental illness and the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.

“In this rich and nuanced book, Aviv writes about people in extreme mental distress, beginning with her own experience of being told she had anorexia when she was 6 years old. That personal history made her especially attuned to how stories can clarify as well as distort what a person is going through. This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book—Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping. What she does is hold space for empathy and uncertainty, exploring a multiplicity of stories instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away.” http://bit.ly/3ub56hm

11/29/2022

Now that the gift-giving season is fast-approaching, we’re sharing some gift ideas for your favorite readers, starting with fiction recommendations. Swipe through for FSG and MCD x FSG recs for different genre readers and head to our Bookshop list here for the full fiction gift guide of 2022: https://bookshop.org/lists/2022-fiction-gift-guide

11/25/2022

5 things you didn’t know about Shirley Hazzard from ’s new biography SHIRLEY HAZZARD: A WRITING LIFE ✍️ Out now in bookstores!

https://bit.ly/3TFMqAx

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re extraordinarily grateful to all of the authors, booksellers, librarians, and readers that celebrate the literature of FSG Books. Wishing you a peaceful holiday weekend 🍂

11/23/2022

🎉📚 FSG is proud to have 10 books on the The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 list! This year’s notable fiction, nonfiction and poetry selected by the The New York Times Books staff includes BLISS MONTAGE by Ling Ma, COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER by Darryl Pinckney, DEMOCRACY’S DATA by Dan Bouk, EVERYTHING I NEED I GET FROM YOU by Kaitlyn Tiffany, IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery, LIFE BETWEEN THE TIDES by Adam Nicolson, PURE COLOUR by Sheila Heti, SHY by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv, and SUPER-INFINITE by Katherine Rundell. Congratulations to all of these great authors and books!
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https://bit.ly/3XCF1Wf

11/22/2022

AMERICAN CALIPH: THE TRUE STORY OF A MUSLIM MYSTIC, A HOLLYWOOD EPIC, AND THE 1977 SIEGE OF WASHINGTON, DC by Shahan M***i is out today. One of ’s best nonfiction books of 2022, AMERICAN CALIPH tells the riveting true story of America’s first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, D.C. Also out today in , Peter Cole’s luminous new book of poems is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In DRAW ME AFTER, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.

AMERICAN CALIPH: https://bit.ly/3EreHWf
DRAW ME AFTER: https://bit.ly/3Xix5cl

11/18/2022

🦎 COVER REVEAL🦎 A new novel from Andrew Lipstein, the author of , is coming July 11, 2023, and we’re thrilled to reveal the cover designed by Cecilia Zhang! Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we’ll go to be good. 🍸 In THE VEGAN, Herschel Caine is a master of the universe. His hedge fund, built on the miracle of machine learning, is inches away from systematically sapping profits from the market. His SoHo offices (shoes optional, therapy required) are ready for desperate investors to flood through the doors. But on May 12, his mind is elsewhere—at his Cobble Hill townhouse and the dinner party designed to impress his flawless neighbors. When the soiree falters, Herschel concocts a prank that goes horrifically awry, plunging him into a tailspin of guilt and regret. As Herschel’s perfect world starts to slip away, he clings to the moral clarity he finds in the last place he’d expect: a sudden connection with his neighbor’s dog 🐕 Preorder now for July 2023! 🦎🦎🦎

http://bit.ly/3hDjyf2

11/16/2022

🏳️‍⚧️ Recommended reading for this week 📚 README.txt is the intimate and revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time, Chelsea Manning. THIS BODY I WORE is Diana Goetsch’s captivating memoir of her long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her. And from MCD Books, Imogen Binnie’s novel NEVADA is a beloved and blistering cult classic that follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip.

11/15/2022

Happy publication day to SHIRLEY HAZZARD: A WRITING LIFE by Brigitta Olubas, JACK IN THE BOX: OR HOW TO GODDAMN DIRECT by Jack O’Brien, I’LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: A LIFE OF BUNNY MELLON, and LOST TO THE WORLD: A MEMOIR OF FAITH, FAMILY, AND FIVE YEARS IN TERRORIST CAPTIVITY by Shahbaz Taseer. Shirley Hazzard was the last of a generation of selftaught writers, devotees of a great literary tradition, and her depth of perception and expressive gifts have earned her iconic status. Olubas has brought her brilliantly alive in the very first biography of Hazzard. In JACK IN THE BOX, the Tony Award–winning director Jack O’Brien gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook. O’Brien takes the reader by the shoulder, pulls them in, and tells them how to become a director—or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did. In I’LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE by , the story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century. How Mellon’s character, style, and taste developed together to produce her greatest accomplishments—private and public—is the real subject of this biography. From MCD x FSG, LOST TO THE WORLD is Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. In , you can also find THE FSG POETRY ANTHOLOGY and MEMORY ROSE INTO THRESHOLD SPEECH by Paul Celan in paperback today in bookstores.

SHIRLEY HAZZARD: http://bit.ly/3TFMqAx
JACK IN THE BOX: http://bit.ly/3O7l7Ox
I'LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: http://bit.ly/3TBphzx
LOST TO THE WORLD: http://bit.ly/3UCCk4R
THE FSG POETRY ANTHOLOGY: http://bit.ly/3UZpOMN
MEMORY ROSE INTO THRESHOLD SPEECH: http://bit.ly/3AeaKmm

11/14/2022

We’re excited to unveil the Na Kim designed cover for RETURN TO VALETTO by Dominic Smith. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. RETURN TO VALETTO is a riveting journey into one family’s dark history, a page-turning excavation of the ruins of history and our commitment to justice in a fragile world. For fans of Amor Towles, Anthony Doerr, and Jess Walter, it is a deeply human and transporting testament to the possibility of love and understanding across gaps of all kinds—even time. Coming June 2023. http://bit.ly/3AeBm6D

11/03/2022

FSG is excited to be publishing new this Winter! Blurring the lines between poetry and fiction, COUPLETS (2/7) is Maggie Millner’s dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone. From A.E. Stallings, THIS AFTERLIFE (12/6) is a selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems. We’ll also be putting out a new edition of Stallings's first book of poems, ARCHAIC SMILE (12/6), which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award. WAS IT FOR THIS (1/24) is a hybrid new collection from Hannah Sullivan, the author of THREE POEMS,—about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now. TRUE LIFE (2/21) is a stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.

11/01/2022

Happy publication day to TOAD by Katherine Dunn, THE GRAND AFFAIR: JOHN SINGER SARGENT IN HIS WORLD by Paul Fisher, and HOW DO WE KNOW OURSELVES?: CURIOSITIES AND THE MARVELS OF THE HUMAN MIND by David G. Myers! 🔥🐛From , TOAD is a previously unpublished novel by the late Katherine Dunn, about the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman. A timely story about the ravages of womanhood that demonstrates Dunn’s genius for black humor, TOAD will become a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction. 🎨Paul Fischer’s THE GRAND AFFAIR is a bold new biography of legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited.✏️HOW DO WE KNOW OURSELVES is a delightful tour of the wonders of our humanity from David G. Myers, the award-winning professor and author of psychology’s bestselling textbook. Each of these 40 essays offers fresh insight into our sometimes bewildering but ever-fascinating lives, all drawn from psychology’s latest research. Also out today are the trade paperbacks of AGAINST SILENCE by Frank Bidart and Paul Muldoon’s HOWDIE-SKELP.

Jacket design for TOAD, THE GRAND AFFAIR and HOW DO WE KNOW OURSELVES? by June Park.

https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/toad

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374165970/thegrandaffair

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374601959/howdoweknowourselves

10/28/2022

John Jay Osborn Jr., 1945 – 2022. FSG was honored to have published Osborn’s novel LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE in 2018. The writes about his best-known 1970s novel-turned-film, THE PAPER CHASE, noting it “was a reflection of Mr. Osborn’s experiences at Harvard Law amid an era of fervent student protests over the Vietnam War.” Osborn and his writing will be greatly missed. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/books/john-jay-osborn-jr-dead.html

10/27/2022

Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You’ve probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar with the team’s sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, an unlikely band of misfits, usually self-taught and often struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the underworld of hackers who lock computer networks and demand huge payments in return for the keys. THE RANSOMWARE HUNTING TEAM traces the adventures of these unassuming heroes and how they’ve used their skills to save millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars to criminals. This book is urgent, uplifting, and entertaining. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden have written a real-life technological thriller that illuminates this dangerous new era of cybercrime.

10/19/2022

Happy pub day , Timothy Shenk, Rupert Christiansen, and ! Chelsea Manning’s powerful and observant memoir is finally out today. README.txt will stand as one of the definitive testaments of our digital, information-driven age and is an intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. Timothy Shenk’s REALIGNERS: PARTISAN HACKS, POLITICAL VISIONARIES, AND THE STRUGGLE TO RULE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY is an eye-opening new history of American political conflict, from Alexander Hamilton to , out today. In DIAGHILEV’S EMPIRE: HOW THE BALLETS RUSSES ENTHRALLED THE WORLD, Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history of the Ballets Russes and of Serge Diaghilev’s dream of bringing Russian art and culture to the West. And new in , THE THRESHOLD is a selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet, Iman Mersal. Translated from Arabic by Robyn Creswell.

10/05/2022

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover, designed by the talented , for a new collection of stories from National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley. WITNESS is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken. What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? Coming August 1, 2023.

09/30/2022

“I do like having a conversation. I like to talk, to engage with people. And we’ve always had our big, sprawling conversations, so when you suggested it, I was kind of intrigued to see where it would go. Let’s see, shall we?”

Created from more than 40 hours of intimate conversations between and Seán O’Hagan, FAITH, HOPE AND CARNAGE puts you right in the room with Nick Cave from the very first page. From a place of considered reflection, they talk about faith, art, music, freedom, grief, and love–it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. A new memoir, from a true creative visionary, out now.

09/22/2022

There was a memorial for Joan Didion yesterday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. In introductory remarks, Shelley Wanger, Joan’s longtime editor, said: “Few writers have more devoted readers. Today, we gather as some of them, as stand-ins, for the many.” For those who were unable to attend the memorial, the Didion Dunne Literary Trust has launched a legacy website - joandidion.org – a reference for readers and celebration of Joan’s life and work. You can watch a recorded stream of the memorial service on the website.

09/20/2022

We have two new captivating books on sale today 📚Yiyun Li’s highly anticipated THE BOOK OF GOOSE is here! A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, THE BOOK OF GOOSE is a story of two friends, Agnès and Fabienne, and of disturbing intimacy, obsession, exploitation, and strength of will. Also out today is Nick Cave’s new memoir, FAITH, HOPE AND CARNAGE. Created from more than 40 hours of intimate conversations with Seán O’Hagan, it is, in Cave’s own words, a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. From a place of considered reflection, this book offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.

Jacket design: The Book of Goose by and Faith, Hope and Carnage by

08/24/2022

We’re also thrilled to highlight our four finalists for the FSG Writer’s Fellowship: Bianca Asare, Min Li Chan, Peter Zaragoza Mayshle, and Dominica Phetteplace.

FSG announced the creation of the Writer’s Fellowship on March 22 of this year. Applicants were asked to submit a writing sample and a personal statement. In a blind submission process, each of the initial writing samples was read by at least two members of the FSG community, across all publishing departments. In June, the top 30 submissions and their respective personal statements were sent to the three Fellowship judges—Sheila Heti, Katie Kitamura, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips—who selected the five finalists in July. A small group of FSG staff then read these five writing samples and personal statements, and interviewed each finalist.

https://fsgfellowship.com/announcement/

08/24/2022

We’re proud to announce the inaugural winner of the 2022 FSG Writer’s Fellowship, Addie Citchens. Our president and publisher, Mitzi Angel says, “I’m delighted to announce the winner of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship, a program that expresses our longtime commitment to publishing exciting new voices. I look forward to welcoming Addie Citchens to FSG. Citchens’s remarkable imagination gives rise to prose of an unusual focus and fullness. It embodies the qualities and spirit that FSG holds to in its search for the best and liveliest new writing.”

Citchens, a graduate of Jackson State University, studied at the Florida State Writing Program and the Callaloo Writers’ Workshop. Her writing, which examines themes such as Black womanhood, the blues, and the South, has appeared in Oxford American’s The Best of the South, Midnight & Indigo’s Speculative Fiction Anthology, Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, and The Columbia Journal. She was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi and is currently based in New Orleans. Congratulations to Addie!

Thank you to all the writers who submitted their work! The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is an ongoing program and will continue next year as we open submissions for the 2023 FSG Fellow. https://fsgfellowship.com/announcement/

08/18/2022

🎭🤩🎉🌟 SHY: THE ALARMINGLY OUTSPOKEN MEMOIRS OF MARY RODGERS by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green is an instant bestseller! Daniel Okrent writes in the review for , “I’ve never read [a book about Broadway] more entertaining (and more revealing) than Mary Rodgers’s SHY. Her voice careens between intimate, sardonic, confessional, comic. The book is pure pleasure — except when it’s jaw-droppingly shocking." Congratulations to a fascinating memoir of a writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “woman who tried everything.” 🌟

08/16/2022

We have three exciting new books publishing today! 🏙️ AS IT TURNS OUT: THINKING ABOUT EDIE AND ANDY by Alice Sedgwick Wohl is the story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick, told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. Jacket design by . ✨A WOMAN’S BATTLES AND TRANSFORMATIONS by Édouard Louis () is a portrait of the author’s mother and her story of liberation. Translated from the French by Tash Aw. Jacket design by 🛸 From , TERRAFORM is an anthology of near future science fiction from ’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform—in print for the first time. Section by section—Watch/Worlds/Burn—the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. Jacket design by

08/02/2022

🥳📚Happy book birthday to Emmanuel Carrère’s YOGA, ’s 40, and Robert Lowell’s MEMOIRS! 🧘‍♂️This is a book about yoga. Or at least it was. Now, YOGA is a book about one man’s desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. YOGA hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are. Translated from the French by John Lambert. 🎺 New today with comes an American myth of the future: a vision of civil war, spectacle, and disaster of biblical proportions. 40 is a dizzyingly fantastical novel in which one heroine must come to terms with the consequences of her decisions––and face the challenges of building a new world. ✍️ MEMOIRS is the complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Edited and with a preface by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, MEMOIRS demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of his achievement.

07/26/2022

THE COLONY by Audrey Magee has been longlisted for the ! “Audrey Magee dissects the gulf between what Ireland is and how the rest of the world wants to fantasize it.” Huge congratulations to Audrey 🎉

07/11/2022

In ’s latest issue, Ian Parker profiles Emmanuel Carrère, France’s renowned author, known for his penetrating portraits of murderers and disaster victims, who trains his eye on his own emotional collapse in his latest book YOGA, a book about one man’s desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. Loving, humorous, harrowing and profound, YOGA hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are. FSG is thrilled to publish the English translation of YOGA next month on 8/2. You can read Parker’s New Yorker profile on Carrère at the link in our bio.

(Photograph by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello for The New Yorker)

06/23/2022

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Chelsea Manning’s memoir README.txt, coming October 18, 2022! In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pride behind the work she does. This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of our digital, information-driven age. Preorder now for October 2022. https://readmetxt.xyz/

06/01/2022

Two Nights in Lisbon Instant NY Times Bestseller

Congratulations Chris Pavone! TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON is an instant The New York Times bestseller! 🎉 Thank you to all of the readers, booksellers, reviewers and everyone in between for sharing your love for

05/25/2022

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

COVER REVEAL: Eleanor Catton’s BIRNAM WOOD is coming March 2023! A gripping psychological thriller from winning author of , BIRNAM WOOD is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival. Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character, it is a brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences. Cover designed by Jon Gray, animation by Beginners. Oprah Daily: https://bit.ly/3NChIpG

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. When a landslide closes the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm seemingly abandoned, it gives them a chance to finally break even. But Mira discovers that Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build an end-times bunker. He offers to let them stay. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals are tested, can they trust each other?

05/24/2022

Happy publication day to TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON by Chris Pavone, THIS BODY I WORE by Diana Goetsch, and A LYNCHING AT PORT JERVIS: RACE AND RECKONING IN THE GILDED AGE by Philip Dray 📚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. (MCD x FSG). THIS BODY I WORE is a captivating memoir of Diana Goetsch’s long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her. THE LETTERS OF THOM GUNN presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry. Edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott, and Clive Wilmer, this collection reveals the evolution of Gunn's work and illuminates the fascinating life that informed his poems. A LYNCHING AT PORT JERVIS is an account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism. Acclaimed historian Philip Dray revisits this time and place to consider its significance in our communal history and to show how justice cannot be achieved without an honest reckoning.

TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON: https://bit.ly/3yTq9sh

THIS BODY I WORE: https://bit.ly/3LxUjF4

THE LETTERS OF THOM GUNN: https://bit.ly/39PG3cI

A LYNCHING AT PORT JERVIS: https://bit.ly/3PECtmc