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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Enter to win @jonathanslaght.com's TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES ⬇️

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky

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Cover page of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, signed and stamped by a bald, bearded man

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 3d

Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Madeline Cash’s glittering debut novel follows the middle-class Flynn family as they try and fail to find a sense of purpose. It’s unforgettable. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Cash’s glittering debut novel (after the collection Earth Angel) follows...

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Listen here: Author Nicholas Boggs joins @npr.org's Morning Edition to talk about his new book BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY, a biography that documents James Baldwin's intimate relationships and how they influenced his work.

'Baldwin: A Love Story' explores how the author's love life inspired his work

NPR's Michel Martin talks to author Nicholas Boggs about his new book "Baldwin: A Love Story," a biography that documents James Baldwin's intimate relationships and how they influenced his work.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Katherine Dunn's "first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters." @nytimes.com

Katherine Dunn’s Stories, Newly Unearthed, Float and Sting

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to our National Book Award finalists Bryan Washington and Yiyun Li!

PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 24d

BIRD SCHOOL describes and follows Adam Nicolson’s progress over two or three years in trying to learn about, and eventually to create an environment friendly to, the birds of the farm where he lives in Sussex. bit.ly/46mb29T

Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 24d

In TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY the analyst Hussein Agha and the diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. bit.ly/4gnljHs

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 24d

Nicholas Boggs joins Full Bio to discuss his new biography, BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY. Listen here:

Full Bio: The Early Years of James Baldwin | All Of It | WNYC

Our latest installment of Full Bio focuses on the life of writer James Baldwin, a literary master and essential figure of the Civil Rights movement. Nicholas Boggs discusses his new b...

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 25d

🎧 Listen here: Nicholas Boggs joins the You Are What You Read podcast to talk about literary icon James Baldwin and his new biography BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY.

The Love Story of James Baldwin: A conversation with Nicholas Boggs

Podcast Episode · You Are What You Read · 09/09/2025 · 34m

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Aug 28

George Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a strange future world known as “the empire.” It’s a knockout. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

The Emergency by George Packer

Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a str...

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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · Aug 27

Listen to Addie E. Citchens discuss the path to publishing her debut novel, DOMINION, on the Debutiful podcast!

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Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social · Aug 27

My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 25

“It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by @jamielsearle.bsky.social.

Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

For example, I never officially told you about “it.” I just came over for coffee one day wearing makeup, with a box of Lindt & Sprüngli (the medium-sized, not the small ones like usual), and th…

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

COVER REVEAL! In MUTINY, Noam Scheiber paints a portrait of a new working class with vivid detail and striking empathy while telling the dramatic story of its revolt against the status quo. MUTINY by Noam Scheiber is coming out April 7, 2026. bit.ly/4fZjRv1

Cover design by Ben Grandgenett.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Read an excerpt from SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES featured by @literaryhub.bsky.social

Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

For example, I never officially told you about “it.” I just came over for coffee one day wearing makeup, with a box of Lindt & Sprüngli (the medium-sized, not the small ones like usual), and th…

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nick Foster helped Apple and Google envision the future. He has some notes.

You’re Probably Thinking About the Future All Wrong

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

Out now, DOMINION by Addie E. Citchens offers an intricate, intimate view of how secrets control us, how shame stifles us, how silence implicates us, and how even love plays a role in the everyday violence and casual sins of the powerful. bit.ly/4mQ10EP

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

"While he worked as a clerk in Alexandria, Egypt, Cavafy published verses intended for a small circle of admirers. Global fame came only after his death."

Read a review from @thewallstreet.bsky.social on Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys's new biography, CONSTANTINE CAVAFY, out now.

‘Constantine Cavafy’ Review: A Poet’s Odyssey Within

Cavafy’s poems present beguiling visions of Alexandria, Egypt, the poet’s home, off and on, of seven decades.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

@npr.org's Adrian Ma talks with Emily Hunt Kivel about her surreal and funny debut novel, DWELLING. Take a listen:

In Emily Hunt Kivel's 'Dwelling,' a housing crisis in New York sets off an adventure

A less-than-easy quest for a place to live after the housing crisis implodes. NPR's Adrian Ma talks with Emily Hunt Kivel about her surreal and funny debut novel, "Dwelling."

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

The @newyorker.com on BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY, out next week:

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · Aug 13

Opera, illness, gay cosmopolitans, S&M, glorious poems: I wrote about the poet James Schuyler & Nathan Kernan’s excellent new biography. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/there-was-... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

Andrew Martin’s new novel, DOWN TIME, unpacks age-old, universal desires. In his terribly funny book about five friends growing older, Martin tells People that he sought to capture the feeling of being “on the verge of ‘midlife’ in our current era." Preorder DOWN TIME for March 10. bit.ly/415Jhkm

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Aug 11

Some early endorsements of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES have come in--here's one from David Quammen. Only three months now to publication--a great time to preorder! shorturl.at/UrWuz 🌍📚💙

cover of a book, with a tiger looking on impassively.

Quote from David Quammen: "There is no beast on earth more formidable, more magnificent, more improbable-seeming than the Amur tiger...this is this saga of that animal, and of the heroic wildlife biologists who have long worked to understand and protect it. Jonathan C Slaght tells the tale from deep knowledge, in rich detail, with high skill."

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

Let this @thebookerprizes.com-longlisted novel be your next summer read.

THE SOUTH by Tash Aw is the story of one summer and the longing that blooms between two boys. bit.ly/43NGEVY

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Epic . . . Captivating . . . Choi’s prose shines with poetry and intelligence.” —Jasmine Vojdani, @nymag.com

Have you picked up Susan Choi’s @thebookerprizes.com-longlisted novel FLASHLIGHT for your summer reading yet?

Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · Aug 8

For @pioneerwork.bsky.social, Jordan Kisner talks with Garth Greenwell about being ruthless with your art. Read the interview here:

Garth Greenwell Is Too Much | Broadcast

Jordan Kisner talks with the novelist and critic about being ruthless with your art.

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