The UK’s Wolfson History Prize 50th-anniversary purse grows to £50,000 for the winner and £5,000 for each shortlisted author.
Mitzi Angel, FSG’s Third President, and First Woman Chief
In preparing to lead Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mitzi Angel says she wants to ‘promote new voices while continuing with the riches we have.’
Sudhir Hazareesingh Wins 2021 Wolfson History Prize for ‘Black Spartacus’
‘Black Spartacus’ is a biography of Toussaint Louverture, a slave rebellion leader who died before he could see his revolution completed.
UK’s 2020 Portico Prize Goes to Jessica Andrews’ Debut ‘Saltwater’
The Manchester-based Portico Library Prize for Literature–focused on the country’s North– finds its winner in a native of Sunderland.
On Both Sides of the Political Divide, Books Are Soaring
As the Senate opens the trial of the impeached Donald Trump, American political nonfiction rises on the updraft of media coverage.
The King of Frankfurt and the Rise of FSG
For 35 years FSG’s Roger Straus would swagger into the Frankfurt Book Fair acquiring the works of the most famous authors in the world, leaving an inimitable legacy.
Creating Free Content to Sell More Content: A Good Idea or Not?
By Hannah Johnson At the Mediabistro eBook Summit, held yesterday in New York City, book marketing dominated the morning sessions. But nobody was talking about print advertising or book tours. Instead, well-trodden topics like social media, online audience building and reader demographics were discussed in light of the growing e-book sales in the United States. As an e-book publisher, Brendan …
The American Gentleman: Roger Straus in Frankfurt
At first publisher Roger Straus was reticent to come to Germany for a book fair, but once he did, the legendary publisher made friends, struck deals, and left a lasting legacy. By Boris Kachka Roger W. Straus, Jr., the exuberant founder of Farrar, Straus & Giroux who died in 2004, carried himself like a born leader, a man who kept …
Franzen’s Freedom is a First-rate Portrait of Middle-class American Life
Review by Edward Nawotka In 2001, on the night of the National Book Awards, I stood a few feet from Jonathan Franzen as he vacillated before the revolving door of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, his image spinning in the door’s revolving glass. Franzen was hard to read. He was wearing the same somewhat grim expression that he …
Work in Progress: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Launches Online Lit Mag
By Edward Nawotka On a hot and balmy night in NYC last Wednesday, venerable US publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hosted a party at the Lower East Side’s Lolita Bar to mark the unveiling of “Work in Progress,” the company’s new literary site. It is something that is “more than a newsletter and less than a magazine,” says FSG’s online …
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