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Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry since 1946. Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W. S.

Straus. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and twenty-one Nobel Prizes in literature. Nobel Prize-winners include Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, T. Eliot, Pär Lagerkvist, François Mauriac,

Juan Ramón Jiménez, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nelly Sachs, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, William Golding, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, Camilo José Cela, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney. Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Philip Larkin to John Ashbery, Thom Gunn, and Les Murray. Fiction has an even greater international reach, distinguished by Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Franzen, Peter Høeg, Amitav Ghosh, Roberto Bolaño, Denis Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Marilynne Robinson, Bernard Malamud, Alice McDermott, Péter Nádas, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Richard Powers, Susan Sontag, Scott Turow, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Tom Wolfe. History, art history, natural history, current affairs and science round out a strong list in nonfiction represented by Thomas Friedman, Philip Gourevitch, George Packer, Alex Ross, Michael Holroyd, William Langewiesche, Gina Kolata, Louis Menand, and John McPhee, among others.

01/28/2025

New today in poetry! FOXGLOVEWISE is, at its core, a response to the singular experience of the loss of one’s parents. It begins at an Eastern Orthodox Epiphany ritual in Florida and ends in a cemetery in Los Angeles. Yet, as with Ange Mlinko’s other books of poetry, the collection uses geography as a trope for the ways in which we try to map out our lives and make them legible, even as poetry, music, and paintings suggest that much of what happens, or matters, to us is “not on the maps” (not to mention “the apps”). Mlinko's poetry is suffused with wit, erudition, beauty, and boundless energy. FOXGLOVEWISE is a direct line to the author’s heart. https://bit.ly/3PPU0cC

Also available today is the trade paperback of FOG AND SMOKE by Katie Peterson. In this poetry collection, Peterson unfurls the quotidian fabric of our lives, patterned with the difficulties of language and this moment. https://bit.ly/4aSk9Bn

01/23/2025

Congratulations to these six FSG National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 Finalists! CANDY DARLING by Cynthia Carr and FAMILY ROMANCE by Jean Strouse are finalists for Biography; FEEDING GHOSTS by Tessa Hulls is a finalist for Autobiography; BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino is a finalist for Fiction; WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE by John Ganz is a finalist for Criticism; SCATTERED SNOWS TO THE NORTH by Carl Phillips is a finalist for Poetry. 🏆

01/21/2025

Happy book birthday to SOMETHING ROTTEN by and THE WICKEDEST by Caleb Femi! 🎂

Andrew Lipstein spins a wicked web through the heart of Copenhagen in SOMETHING ROTTEN. The novel is a portrait of a young family finding, and losing, themselves abroad. His provocative new novel will make you question everyone and everything—even the very nature of truth. https://bit.ly/40oi37e

From MCD x FSG, THE WICKEDEST is an immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation. Femi ingeniously blends conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, to give us a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out. https://bit.ly/4hiZKag

01/14/2025

Happy publication day to THE CONTAINMENT: DETROIT, THE SUPREME COURT, AND THE BATTLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE NORTH by Michelle Adams and VANTAGE POINT by Sara Sligar! 🌟

In THE CONTAINMENT, the esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schools—and what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374250423/thecontainment/

From MCD x FSG, VANTAGE POINT carefully unravels a twisted web of family secrets and political ambition that raises questions about the nature of “truth” in our digital age. Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive, technological suspense about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374282295/vantagepoint/

01/07/2025

Caryl Phillips, who "pits himself against any kind of received wisdom” (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London. ANOTHER MAN IN THE STREET is out today in bookstores! 📚 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613556/anothermaninthestreet/

12/03/2024

Happy publication day to IGNORANCE AND BLISS: ON WANTING NOT TO KNOW by Mark Lilla! A dazzling exploration of our wish to remain innocent and ignorant—and its consequences. In IGNORANCE AND BLISS, the acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. The result is a highly original meditation that invites readers to consider their own deep-seated impulses and taboos. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374174354/ignoranceandbliss/

11/20/2024

Cover reveal! In an exclusive, People shared the cover for FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi. FLASHLIGHT is a novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of TRUST EXERCISE. Coming June 3.

Choi told People: “During my childhood my family lived in Japan for a little under a year, and my memories of that time have always been very eerie and dreamlike and hard to connect with the rest of my life. The story in FLASHLIGHT comes out of that feeling. It’s about a family–not my family, but maybe my alternate-universe family, who are far less lucky than my family was. The first time the cover of FLASHLIGHT was shared with me, it came via email as a pdf file, and when I clicked the file open I felt the cover, even more than I saw it. It gripped me with that same feeling–of being haunted by something, and of the boundary between the known and unknown. It also gave me a feeling of resilience, of someone at the very edge, but not giving up. I think it’s incredibly beautiful.” https://people.com/see-the-cover-of-susan-chois-novel-flashlight-exclusive-8747829

11/19/2024

Happy publication day to STRANGER THAN FICTION: LIVES OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL by Edwin Frank, V13: CHRONICLE OF A TRIAL by Emmanuel Carrère, and FAMILY ROMANCE: JOHN SIGNER SARGENT AND THE WERTHEIMERS by Jean Strouse!

STRANGER THAN FICTION is a legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. With penetrating insight and originality, Frank introduces us to books, some famous, some little-known, from the whole course of the century and from around the world. The story as a whole is one of fearless, often reckless exploration, as well as unfathomable desolation. Throughout, we discover the power of the novel to reinvent itself, to find a way for itself, to live differently. https://bit.ly/3CwAdeG

V13 is a moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading nonfiction writer Emmanuel Carrère. Translated from French by John Lambert, V13 isn’t so much the story of a trial but of the community that formed around it—a city within the city, home to the innocent and the accused, the forgiving and the vengeful, the outspoken and the silent. Carrère introduces us to lawyers, survivors, family members, and above all the defendants, assembling in painstaking detail a human portrait of the crime. What emerges from these pages is a study of good and evil—and a philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. https://bit.ly/4fVTQv4

FAMILY ROMANCE brings the interwoven stories of John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimer family to life for the first time. In it, author
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding the familyE Wetheimer’s and the portraits Singer Sargent created. https://bit.ly/4hT585b

11/12/2024

Happy book birthday to LAZARUS MAN by Richard Price, THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD . . . by David Graeber, and FAR DISTRICT by Ishion Hutchinson!

In his electrifying novel LAZARUS MAN, Richard Price, the author of CLOCKERS and a writer on THE WIRE, gives us the razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem. One of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, Price creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by a disaster. A riveting work of suspense and social vision by one of our major writers. https://bit.ly/3O33aRU

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD . . . a “brilliant posthumous collection [from David] Graeber (The Dawn of Everything) [and] an invigorating testament to a life spent challenging the status quo.” Featuring a foreword by Rebecca Solnit and an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky, these essays are a profound reminder of Graeber’s enduring significance. https://bit.ly/3Z00U4n

A brilliant new collection of poetry, FAR DISTRICT charts the spiritual path of a poet-speaker caught between two spheres: the culture of bush people and a luminous, dangerous sea of myth. Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology. The speaker fears the land of myth because he is loyal to the bush people, but he also wants to transcend his physical and intellectual poverty. Little by little, the two cultures come together as the speaker begins grafting childhood memories onto the realm of imagination, shaped by art, music, literature, and new glimpses of the world. Written in both traditional and formless verse, as well as in English and Jamaican patois, FAR DISTRICT is an indelible, urgent collection. https://bit.ly/3UPIbWB

Also available today in is the trade paperback edition of Ishion Hutchinson’s SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTIONS. https://bit.ly/3YD709q

10/22/2024

New today: ROMAN YEAR by André Aciman, ABSOLUTION by Jeff VanderMeer, and MY GOOD BRIGHT WOLF by Sarah Moss! 📚

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 the Eternal City, after being expelled from Egypt. https://bit.ly/4eR28EF

ABSOLUTION is the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series—and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time. From MCD x FSG! https://bit.ly/4aHNCfW

From the acclaimed author of GHOST WALL, SUMMERWATER, and THE FELL, Sarah Moss’s MY GOOD BRIGHT WOLF is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves. https://bit.ly/3YwHO5r

10/17/2024

It was a meaningless day
like what you call
love

It was a Thursday
In parentheses. The brackets around it
Have already faded
Life tastes of ash
And is bearable.
(From the poem "Divorce 2")

By Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY, comes a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.

THERE LIVES A YOUNG GIRL IN ME WHO WILL NOT DIE, a major volume of selected poetry written throughout Tove Ditlevsen’s life, is infused with the same wry nihilism, quiet intensity, dark humor, and crystalline genius that readers savor in her prose. These are heartbreak poems, childhood poems, self-portraits, death poems, wounded poems, confessional poems, and love poems—poems that stare into the surfaces that seduce and deceive us. Speaking across generations to both the passions of youth and the agonies of adulthood, these startling, resonant poems are both canonical and contemporary, and demand to be shared with friends, loved ones, nemeses, and strangers alike. Preorder now for March 11!

10/15/2024

Happy publication day to LINGUAPHILE: A LIFE OF LANGUAGE LOVE by Julie Sedivy! LINGUAPHILE is a celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world. If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious, lyrical exploration, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible.

10/09/2024

COVER REVEAL! A messianic tale about a group of professional mourners, WEEPERS by Peter Mendelsund is a darkly funny novel of grief, mystery and redemption from the author of THE DELIVERY. Preorder now for June 17. https://bit.ly/4ezjGVr

10/08/2024

Happy pub day to Oliver Burkeman’s MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS: FOUR WEEKS TO EMBRACE YOUR LIMITATIONS AND FINALLY MAKE TIME FOR WHAT COUNTS and ANNIHILATION by Michel Houellebecq!

⌛ Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, MEDITATIONS FOR MORTLS offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly. To be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings, this book will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more. https://bit.ly/3Yek467

📚 Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside, ANNIHILATION, Michel Houellebecq’s international bestseller is a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence. It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. Paul Raison’s own troubles are bound up with those of the country. When his father suddenly suffers a stroke, Paul must depart Paris for his provincial hometown, where he and his siblings now have the opportunity to repair their strained relationships with Édouard as they determine to free him from the decrepit public nursing home where he is wasting away. https://bit.ly/3YcO3LE

Also available today is the paperback edition of THE MANY HUNDREDS OF THE SCENT by . A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award. https://bit.ly/3NCK9pz

10/03/2024

Sally Rooney’s INTERMEZZO is an instant The New York Times bestseller and a national indie bestseller! 💛♟️Thanks to all of the booksellers and readers that have supported this incredible book.

10/01/2024

Happy pub day to MODEL HOME by Rivers Solomon, Q: A VOYAGE AROUND THE QUEEN by Craig Brown, THE POSITION OF SPOONS: AND OTHER INTIMACIES by Deborah Levy, THE BLACK UTOPIANS: SEARCHING PARADISE AND THE PROMISED LAND IN AMERICA by Aaron Robertson, and SALVAGE: READINGS FROM THE WRECK by Dionne Brand!

👻 From MCD x FSG comes a new kind of haunted-house novel. Welcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous MODEL HOME. https://bit.ly/4eOIRmT

👑 With equal measures of wit and wisdom, Craig Brown, the author of 99 GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGARET draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself. https://bit.ly/4eP8DaB

🥄THE POSITION OF SPOONS is a feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy. https://bit.ly/4gFYLl4

📚 Aaron Robertson’s THE BLACK UTOPIANS is a lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and sought to transform their lives. https://bit.ly/3N8yONG

📚 Dionne Brand’s SALVAGE: READINGS FROM THE WRECK explores English and American literature and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not. https://bit.ly/4eq2qlt

09/24/2024

Happy publication day to A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC by August Kleinzahler! In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music. https://bit.ly/3MU6azL

We’re also excited to share a Spotify playlist to listen to while you read this new rhythmic collection of poems. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OsJnAcdJ74Co6kcP95s2H?si=b5f8d4bd77464195&nd=1&dlsi=21f8b71e6e854d4e

09/24/2024

INTERMEZZO is here! Head to your nearest bookstore to get your copy of INTERMEZZO today! https://bit.ly/4etmgNd

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COVER REVEAL! We’re so thrilled to share the cover for SAVING FIVE: A MEMOIR OF HOPE by @nguyen_amanda. SAVING FIVE is a brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism. Coming March 4, 2025. https://bit.ly/3ZFsJjl

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

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