Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Humorous

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

by Ian Frazier

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier’s uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile...

Luminous Airplanes

by Paul La Farge

A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

In...

The New Yorkers

by Cathleen Schine

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly...

My Fine Feathered Friend

by William Grimes

Boy Meets Bird.

Boy Gets Bird.

Boy Loses Bird

An Urban Folktale.

One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken,...