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I take it as a compliment when people say my writing about music makes them interested in hearing the work I have described. The comment may not always be intended as a compliment. It may well be meant to say that the words on the page fall short in evoking the full character of an elementally aural art. Still, I’ll take my compliments where I can get them.
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There is a familiar voice narrating the audiobook of Iterating Grace—familiar, that is, if you listen to podcasts, or watch The Daily Show, or if you ever turned on your TV between 2006 and 2010. It is the voice of John Hodgman: actor, writer, podcaster, professional funny man.
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There’s something about Etgar Keret’s short stories that sound great when read aloud. Fortunately for us, a few of his notable friends have volunteered to read pieces from his latest...
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There’s something about Etgar Keret’s short stories that works especially well online. Perhaps it’s their terseness, their easy vernacular, or their wry approach to the fundamental oddness of modern life....
The post Gary Shteyngart Reads Etgar Keret’s “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” first appeared on Work in Progress.
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire spans just four years in New York City, but that’s all Will Hermes needs to showcase the explosion of progress between rock, salsa, hip...
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Jeffrey Eugenides stopped by the FSG offices a couple weeks ago, in advance of his book tour for The Marriage Plot. We used the opportunity to let his Facebook fans...
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This newly translated piece by Jorge Luis Borges appears in The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry. Ilan Stavans, the book’s editor and the translator of “Borges and I,”...
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There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeling with such perfect articulation that...
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Heavenly Questions, Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s recently published sixth book of poems, is a remarkably moving and, perhaps surprisingly, exhilarating work, given that it is an elegy for the poet’s late husband,...
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We’ve noticed a surge of interest in Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky centered around the recent New York Times article “Venice in Winter” and the use of poetry as travel guide....
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I took a quick trip to Boston last weekend to produce our teleforum event with Harvard’s Michael Sandel and his book Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? By our...
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It’s a privilege to help usher in Nelson Mandela’s Conversations with Myself, an international publishing event. We’ve selected President Barack Obama’s foreword to the book as our monthly exclusive for Work...
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Dan Bejar is something of a musical polymath. He releases albums as the front man for Destroyer while collaborating with the New Pornographers and playing as a member of indie...
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A few months before Charming Billy‘s publication in December 1997, Alice McDermott recorded a brief interview about the novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux then distributed the audio – on cassette –...
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“It is difficult, as you know, to create interest in new writers.” -FSG letter introducing Susan Sontag’s first book, 1963 FSG has published Susan Sontag since her debut novel The...
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