Farrar, Straus and Giroux

06/17/2021

Rest in Peace to the legendary Janet Malcolm (1934 - 2021). “The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/business/media/janet-malcolm-dead.html

Rest in Peace to the legendary Janet Malcolm (1934 - 2021). “The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/business/media/janet-malcolm-dead.html

05/21/2021

🚨 Sally Rooney Alert! 🚨 Galleys are fresh off the press for BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU and we couldn’t wait to share them with you 😍 #bwway is out September 7.

#SallyRooney #BeautifulWorldWhereAreYou

05/07/2021

A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis

"This is a book about the past, written in the fury of the present — in the midst of another epidemic — but its gaze is fixed on the future. LET THE RECORD SHOW doesn’t seek to memorialize history but to ransack it, to seize what we might need." —The New York Times

Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show” is a history of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, based on 17 years of interviews with nearly 200 members of the organization.

05/03/2021

"It’s human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it’s an imperative."

Rest in Peace, Michael Collins (1930 - 2021).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/science/michael-collins-third-man-of-the-moon-landing-dies-at-90.html?e=3723499cdfa2b64869576139c83c4ef490b2bfb60f52d0adb54d843ed6331732
Michael Collins

"It’s human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it’s an imperative."

Rest in Peace, Michael Collins (1930 - 2021).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/science/michael-collins-third-man-of-the-moon-landing-dies-at-90.html?e=3723499cdfa2b64869576139c83c4ef490b2bfb60f52d0adb54d843ed6331732
Michael Collins

04/30/2021

Celebrating 75 Years of FSG Poetry

On the last day of #NationalPoetryMonth, we invite you to watch "Celebrating 75 Years of FSG Poetry," featuring a conversation between Mitzi Angel and Jonathan Galassi about the history and future of poetry at FSG, and readings from poets Hannah Sullivan, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, -francine j. harris, and Valzhyna Mort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTIQTppsf7k

Join us for a conversation about the history and future of poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mitzi Angel and Jonathan Galassi welcomed FSG poets Rowan Ric...

04/28/2021

Join The Academy of American Poets tomorrow night in honoring Jonathan Galassi with the 2021 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award at Poetry & the Creative Mind. Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-the-creative-mind-virtual-gala-supporting-national-poetry-month-registration-138838474615?aff=Site #NationalPoetryMonth

We'll present Jonathan Galassi, President of FSG, with the 2021 Leadership Award at Poetry & the Creative Mind on 4/29 at 7:30 p.m. EDT, in recognition of his role in publishing many influential poets & helping to launch #NationalPoetryMonth 25 years ago. RSVP to tune in: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-the-creative-mind-virtual-gala-supporting-national-poetry-month-registration-138838474615?aff=Site

04/24/2021

Happy #IndieBookstoreDay! 📚❤️ FSG is proud to support independent bookstores and booksellers today and every day. Show your local indie bookstore some love today and pick up a copy of these exclusive special editions of SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS by Kawai Strong Washburn and HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER by Jeff VanderMeer that are only available to purchase for #IndependentBookstoreDay.

(Photo credit to Bookmarks)

Happy #IndieBookstoreDay! 📚❤️ FSG is proud to support independent bookstores and booksellers today and every day. Show your local indie bookstore some love today and pick up a copy of these exclusive special editions of SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS by Kawai Strong Washburn and HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER by Jeff VanderMeer that are only available to purchase for #IndependentBookstoreDay.

(Photo credit to Bookmarks)

04/23/2021

Did you know you can watch the latest episode of Oprah’s Book Club on Apple TV for free? Start with Oprah's exclusive interview with author Marilynne Robinson and tune in for more GILEAD series book club discussions to come from Oprah's Book Club on AppleTv+. #ReadWithUS

P.S. If you don't have the app you can still watch — just open your browser and type in tv.apple.com

04/20/2021

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#justiceforgeorgefloyd

04/13/2021

💥 🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 💥 We’re thrilled to share with you the cover for Sally Rooney’s highly anticipated new novel, BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU. Meet Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon as they navigate their worries, relationships, friendships, desires, and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU will be published on September 7, 2021. You can pre-order your copy now and keep following FSG for more #SallyRooney updates to come.

The jacket design for #bwway is by Jon Gray. Jacket Illustrations by Manshen Lo.

04/09/2021

MCD x FSG authors Jeff VanderMeer and Rivers Solomon discuss Nature and Human Nature in their works.

HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER author Jeff VanderMeer and SORROWLAND author Rivers Solomon discuss nature and human nature in their works with editor Sean McDonald.

04/01/2021

April is a time to celebrate the joy, expressiveness and moving power of poetry and the art of verse. As FSG commemorates our 75th year, we are excited to recognize the amazing poets and poetry we publish this National Poetry Month.

We’ll be featuring some of our authors reciting their favorite poems on our Instagram all month long. And, of course, the FSG poetry hotline is back. Each day you can call 385-DIAL-FSG (385-342-5374) to hear an author recite a favorite poem. Keep calling, we’ll feature a different poem every day! #NationalPoetryMonth

April is a time to celebrate the joy, expressiveness and moving power of poetry and the art of verse. As FSG commemorates our 75th year, we are excited to recognize the amazing poets and poetry we publish this National Poetry Month.

We’ll be featuring some of our authors reciting their favorite poems on our Instagram all month long. And, of course, the FSG poetry hotline is back. Each day you can call 385-DIAL-FSG (385-342-5374) to hear an author recite a favorite poem. Keep calling, we’ll feature a different poem every day! #NationalPoetryMonth

04/01/2021

We're hiring! Picador USA is looking for a Senior Marketing Manager (https://rb.gy/eoeq8o) and we're seeking a Marketing Manager at FSG (https://rb.gy/oxv2yo). Click the links for more information and to apply.

03/26/2021

The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners - National Book Critics Circle

It’s a great honor to have two of our authors selected as 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award winners.

Raven Leilani was the winner of the John Leonard Prize for a first book for her novel LUSTER. Judge Natalie Bakopoulos says, “LUSTER’s artistry, wit, and narrative surprises make it a tremendous achievement, and it’s tender and raucous prose mirrors the narrator’s tender and raucous self.”

francine j. harris was awarded the poetry prize for HERE IS THE SWEET HAND. Judge Megan Labrise says, “[By] exploring femininity, blackness, queerness, nature, and institutions (political, academic, and disciplinary), [these poems] have the power to move.”

Congratulations to Raven Leilani and -francine j. harris!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards! Criticism: Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard Univ. Press) Poetry: francine

03/25/2021

What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country?

"Through careful detail and deeply humanizing portraits of communities impacted by Amazon, MacGillis gives us a picture of contemporary America as mere survival under precarity — the simple need for shelter, food and a safe workplace." - The New York Times Books

In “Fulfillment,” Alec MacGillis tours America to understand how one company’s culture and capitalistic impulses are seeping into our way of life.

03/23/2021

Congratulations to Pierre Joris for winning the PEN America 2021 PEN/Manheim Award for Translation
https://pen.org/press-release/roster-of-breakthrough-literary-visionaries-to-receive-2021-pen-america-career-achievement-prizes/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

Congratulations to Pierre Joris for winning the PEN America 2021 PEN/Manheim Award for Translation
https://pen.org/press-release/roster-of-breakthrough-literary-visionaries-to-receive-2021-pen-america-career-achievement-prizes/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

03/22/2021

Rest in Peace Adam Zagajewski (1945 - 2021).

Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

Rest in Peace Adam Zagajewski (1945 - 2021).

Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

03/19/2021

“One of my favorite characters in fiction is a pastor in Gilead, Iowa, named John Ames, who is gracious and courtly and a little bit confused about how to reconcile his faith with all the various travails that his family goes through . . . I just fell in love with the character, fell in love with the book.”
- Barack Obama

We love that President Obama is one of Marilynne Robinson’s biggest fans. Start reading along with Oprah's Book Club on 3/22.
#ReadWithUs #OprahsBookClub #MarilynneRobinson

“One of my favorite characters in fiction is a pastor in Gilead, Iowa, named John Ames, who is gracious and courtly and a little bit confused about how to reconcile his faith with all the various travails that his family goes through . . . I just fell in love with the character, fell in love with the book.”
- Barack Obama

We love that President Obama is one of Marilynne Robinson’s biggest fans. Start reading along with Oprah's Book Club on 3/22.
#ReadWithUs #OprahsBookClub #MarilynneRobinson

03/18/2021

We are thrilled to share the Oprah's Book Club reading schedule for GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson. Let the reading begin! #readwithus #gilead #oprahbookclub

03/18/2021

#StopAAPIHate

03/16/2021

Oprah is diving into Marilynne Robinson’s cannon and the mythical world of Gilead this month for Oprah's Book Club. Robinson’s award-winning novels and her beloved characters occupy an important place in contemporary American literature and we’re honored to have all four Gilead novels as part of this month’s book club! They’ll be starting with GILEAD and following up with HOME, LILA and JACK. #ReadWithUs #MarilynneRobinson

Oprah is diving into Marilynne Robinson’s cannon and the mythical world of Gilead this month for Oprah's Book Club. Robinson’s award-winning novels and her beloved characters occupy an important place in contemporary American literature and we’re honored to have all four Gilead novels as part of this month’s book club! They’ll be starting with GILEAD and following up with HOME, LILA and JACK. #ReadWithUs #MarilynneRobinson

03/16/2021

Oprah Book Club Announcement

We’re so excited to share today that Oprah has selected Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels as her latest Oprah's Book Club pick! Oprah will be leading a conversation with Oprah's Book Club around GILEAD over the next 4 weeks. Then they’ll be diving into the rest of the novels, HOME, LILA and JACK. We’re thrilled to have all four Gilead novels selected and honored to have Oprah recognize Marilynne Robinson as one of the “greatest living writers.” #ReadWithUs #MarilynneRobinson #OprahsBookClub

03/16/2021

My next Oprah's Book Club pick is not one but four books: “Gilead,” “Home,” “Lila,” and “Jack” by Marilynne Robinson. The Gilead universe follows a cast of memorable characters in small-town Iowa that reminds us how privileged we are just to be human with every sentence you read. Download your copies here: apple.co/-Oprah or wherever you purchase your books from. #ReadWithUs

03/03/2021

2021 Annual Conference & Bookfair

Tomorrow, 7:30PM ET: If you're attending #AWP21, join us in our booth for Jeff VanderMeer, Leone Ross, and Rivers Solomon
in conversation with Maria Dahvana Headley, Sean McDonald, and Jenna Johnson for FSG's panel at the 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair!

https://awp21.pathable.co/meetings/virtual/tPYSpdgzrnRWz3t6e

2021 Annual Conference & Bookfair

02/26/2021

This Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It.

There aren’t many explicit references to baseball in THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, yet many executives swear by it. It has circulated heavily in the front offices of the Oakland Athletics, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Baltimore Orioles and the Houston Astros, among others.

A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices. It is changing the sport.

02/11/2021

"Seidel is among the rare poets who’ve become noticeably better — nervier, more tricksy and electric — as they’ve slid into old age . . . He’s the Dark Prince of American poetry, a writer of glittering malice, one who cuts against the grain of almost every variety of community feeling. He’s not a poet for everyone, but no poet worth anything is . . . Meticulous and sublime."
--Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Seidel is among the rare poets who’ve become noticeably better — nervier, more tricksy and electric — as they’ve slid into old age . . . He’s the Dark Prince of American poetry, a writer of glittering malice, one who cuts against the grain of almost every variety of community feeling. He’s not a poet for everyone, but no poet worth anything is . . . Meticulous and sublime."
--Dwight Garner, The New York Times

02/10/2021

See the cover of 'Crossroads,' the first installment of Jonathan Franzen's new trilogy

We are excited to reveal the cover, alongside Entertainment Weekly, for Jonathan Franzen's new novel CROSSROADS.

It’s December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, a pastor, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era’s counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.

By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Complete in itself, set in a historical moment of moral crisis, and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads serves as a foundation for a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.

https://ew.com/books/jonathan-franzen-crossroads-cover-first-look/

Get a first look at Jonathan Franzen's novel 'Crossroads,' the first installment in a new trilogy.

01/25/2021

Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 NBCC Awards - National Book Critics Circle

Congratulations to Raven Leilani (LUSTER), francine j. harris (HERE IS THE SWEET HAND), and Vivian Gornick (UNFINISHED BUSINESS)!
https://www.bookcritics.org/2021/01/24/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2020-nbcc-awards/

We’re proud to announce the finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, along with the winners of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and the Ivan

01/12/2021

We’re excited to announce FSG will publish Beautiful World, Where Are You by the bestselling author Sally Rooney. The book will be published September 7, 2021.

Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have s*x, they worry about s*x, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

“Beautiful World, Where Are You is extraordinary for its compassion and humor and lyrical delight. It’s extraordinary for the vitality of its characters and for the way it pushes so many contemporary buttons with deadeye accuracy and feeling,” Mitzi Angel, Publisher of FSG and Sally Rooney’s editor, says. “Sally Rooney asks questions about things we hold dear: money, love, beauty, truth, success, God, the internet, art, and goodness itself. She shows us how precarious things are and how precious life is. I’m enormously grateful to be working with her again.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html

We’re excited to announce FSG will publish Beautiful World, Where Are You by the bestselling author Sally Rooney. The book will be published September 7, 2021.

Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have s*x, they worry about s*x, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

“Beautiful World, Where Are You is extraordinary for its compassion and humor and lyrical delight. It’s extraordinary for the vitality of its characters and for the way it pushes so many contemporary buttons with deadeye accuracy and feeling,” Mitzi Angel, Publisher of FSG and Sally Rooney’s editor, says. “Sally Rooney asks questions about things we hold dear: money, love, beauty, truth, success, God, the internet, art, and goodness itself. She shows us how precarious things are and how precious life is. I’m enormously grateful to be working with her again.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html