Frances Goldin Literary Agency

10/21/2022

Capping off an exciting publication week, which included the news that it's the latest pick, Barbara Kingsolver’s DEMON COPPERHEAD is named one of Publishers Weekly’s top fiction books of the year.

Best Books 2022, The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Companion Piece, Ali Smith, Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Devil House, Dinosaurs, Lydia Millet, Dr. No, Percival Everett, Either/Or, Elif Batuman, Human Blues, Elisa Albert, Lessons, Ian McEwan

10/21/2022

knows that the timely, captivating and profoundly American story at the heart of “Demon Copperhead” is one you will want to discuss. Have you picked up (or downloaded) your copy?

10/21/2022

ICYMI!

Here's the schedule we'll use to read “Demon Copperhead” together. Of course, feel free to read at your own pace, but this is the schedule we’ll use for our discussions, beginning with 's first video question on Monday, October 24th.
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We can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this new selection by the phenomenal .kingsolver. Are you picking up a copy?

10/21/2022

So thrilled to announce that Barbara Kingsolver’s DEMON COPPERHEAD is an Oprah's Book Club pick!

10/14/2022

On the eve of the publication of her new novel DEMON COPPERHEAD comes this great profile of Barbara Kingsolver in the New York Times, in which she talks about how she came to be inspired by Dickens, and why the book is the anti-Hillbilly Elegy.

In “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver reimagines “David Copperfield” as a tale set in Southern Appalachia, and brings humanity and humor to a region and people who have long endured exploitation and condescension.

08/15/2022

'"Mourning is the most difficult form of celebration,” Ms. Dykewomon wrote...“But I am filled with the beauty of what I need to mourn.”'

We're saddened to note the passing of Elana Dykewomon, a longtime FGLA client:

In a five-decade career that began with the coming-of-age novel “Riverfinger Women,” she was outspoken in her fiction, her poetry and her life.

07/12/2022

Happy pub day to Meghan O’Gieblyn, whose latest book God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning is out in paperback today – the New York Times called it “a hybrid beast, a remarkably erudite work of history, criticism and philosophy, but it is also, crucially, a memoir.”

In “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” the essayist and cultural critic Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how our conception of the human mind has been shaped by our tech-driven era — and what such a view leaves out.

07/05/2022

Virginia Eubanks' powerful New York Times Magazine story of living with a partner suffering from PTSD, revealing just how frayed the “social safety net” really is, and how much caregivers are on their own, is now up on The New York Times website:

After my partner was brutally beaten on the street, I became one of the many thousands of Americans caring for someone with post-traumatic stress disorder — and our relationship changed forever.

06/30/2022

David Cole writes in the Washington Post about constitutional “originalism,” as all its infuriating absurdities and contradictions are laid bare:

A blind adherence to history is no way to rule on the very different circumstances of the present.

06/27/2022

A fascinating piece by Andrew S. Lewis on falconry in the battle between gulls and beach snackers:

How Ocean City cleared the gulls from its boardwalk — with falcons and hawks.

06/22/2022

A very happy birthday to our founder Frances Goldin, who would have been 98 years old today. NBC News posted this photo of her a few months ago to illustrate 'allyship' -- a fitting tribute for an activist who dedicated her life to it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/dictionarycom-anoints-allyship-word-year-2021-rcna7726

06/09/2022

A wonderful piece here from Steph Burt on the attraction of D&D for trans and neuroatypical kids: “Tabletop role-playing games such as D&D give players the chance to inhabit bodies and lives not their own.” Now in the London Review of Books:

Dungeons & Dragons turned out to serve as a perfect bridge from statistics-oriented, win-or-lose simulations of complex...