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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 joylessunless 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//jonathan-franzen-crossroads-cover-first-l/

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

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 youngbut life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before t...he 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//sally-rooney-beautiful-world-wher

Democrats need to ask themselves: Why do many working people embrace a plutocrat-populist whose policies do little to help them? Democrats need to address the sense of humiliation felt by working people who feel the economy has left them behind and that credentialed elites look down on them. Michael Sandel talks about the consequences of the 2020 Election and The Tyranny of Merit with Thomas Friedman in The New York Times Opinion Section. https://www.nytimes.com//o/trump-biden-election-2020.html

Congratulations to Louise Gluck for winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature! FSG is proud to publish her and her amazing work. Louise Gluck is one of the rare contemporary poets whose work has the power to speak directly to others through her great and subtle art. As the Nobel Committee said, her poetry's "austere beauty makes individual experience universal." This is very accurate. It's wonderful to have her astringent, witty, profoundly human voice, a voice that so rich...ly reflects our own inner feelings and reactions, so broadly recognized. I'm sure the prize will bring her many, many new readers. -Jonathan Galassi, President of FSG and Louise Gluck’s editor https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/summary/

CONGRATULATIONS! Jonas Hassen Khemiri's THE FAMILY CLAUSE, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies, is a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature! https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-family-clause/

Happy publication day to JACK, Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited return to the world of Gilead. Robinson is a singular figure in American fiction. She writes about faith without piousness, art without snobbery, and when she gets deep into her characters’ heads, gives their emotional crises complexity and contour... Robinson doesn’t deal in easy redemption stories or romantic happily-ever-afters; storm clouds hover over the final pages of Jack. But Robinson also conjures a se...nse of hard-won possibility... Robinson richly imagines Jack as he pulls off ‘his grandest larceny by far, this sly theft of happiness from the very clutches of prohibition.’ - Mark Athitakis, USA Today Learn more: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279301

Join JACK author Marilynne Robinson in conversation with Michael Silverblatt via Barnes & Noble's virtual event series! (Purchase of signed edition of JACK on website below by 9/27 is required to join event) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jack-marilynne/1136012532

"In 2005, Marilynne Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead. In its citation, the Pulitzer committee said the novel offered a hymn of praise and lamentation to a God-haunted existence. In the books that followed, Home and Lila, Robinson continued to explore characters from the Iowa town she createdthe eponymous Gileadand, through them, themes of faith, existentialism, and connection. Now, with the sublime Jack, she resumes and deepens her quest, extending it to the contemplation of race." O, The Oprah Magazine with a great review of Marilynne Robinson's new book, Jack.

How Wagner Shaped Hollywood: An excerpt from Alex Ross' WAGNERISM in The New Yorker about how Richard Wagner infiltrated every phase of movie history, from silent pictures to superhero blockbusters.

Join debut novelist Raven Leilani as she talks with art director, Na Kim, and nail polish creator, Nexus Cookcollaborators on the launch and promotion of Leilani’s novel Luster. Expect a wide-ranging conversation on art, the wonders of color, what it means to be a female artist today, and many other topics. The conversation will be moderated by Leilani’s editor, Jenna Johnson. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/celebratingluster

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Join us tonight for a virtual conversation between Diary of a Drag Queen author Tom Rasmussen and community organizer and writer Adam Eli on Literary Hub's Virtual Book Channel! Happening now! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diaryofadragqueen

We are excited to reveal the cover for Marilynne Robinson's upcoming novel, Jack, publishing on September 29. Robinson returns to the world of Gilead for the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. In celebration of the publication of Jack, @Picador will be reissuing Gilead, Home, and Lila with new covers designed by Na Kim (@na_son) with paintings by Charles E. Burchfield (@bpartcenter)

In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports: Faced with the cancellation of her book tour, Jordan Kisner, author of Thin Places, turns to books that evoke a sense of place and recommends 8 books that might take you somewhere, too. https://www.nytimes.com//tra/travel-books-coronavirus.html

"The first doctor to understand the importance of hygiene in stopping the spread of infectious disease was Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, who in the 1840s was working in the maternity department of Vienna’s General Hospital. At the time, the idea that the squalid conditions in hospitals played a role in spreading infection didn’t cross many doctors’ minds." Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris (The Chirurgeon's Apprentice) writes about the history of handwashing in the medical community and the doctor who tried to change dirty habits.