He tours the myriad cultural influences from 1980s New York that helped form the extraordinary artist we know today. Above all, it is an ode and an address to the lovers who saw and touched Als’s soul, and are held there still. I DON’T REMEMBER is available on May 11, 2027.

COVER REVEAL! Part autobiography, part reportage, part cultural criticism, I DON’T REMEMBER traces Hilton Als’ coming of age, from his mother’s Crown Heights house filled with sisters, to the thrilling new world of Columbia University, where other young men also found joy in poetry, film, and art.

"I want to tell you, simply, joyful we were that summer." I just read and highly recommend Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas. Set in South, trans healthcare, found family, and caregiving. On the National Book Award fiction longlist. Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

A global publication date is set for the fall of 2028. Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe

". . . MATERIAL EVIDENCE is full of humor, insight and appreciation for detail that might otherwise go unnoticed. I couldn’t be more delighted that Tilda Swinton joins FSG with this extraordinarily unusual and moving book.”

Mitzi Angel added: “I’ve long admired Tilda Swinton’s unique way of seeing things. The objects she contemplates in her enchanting book vibrate with meaning and memory—and through that contemplation she brings us the story of life . . ."

". . . uniquely, constitute, which changes constantly–evolving and developing–and that solid matter which stays the same in its essence–and consistently repays and feeds us, the world around us and all the things in it that make up our singular lives.”

Tilda Swinton said: “MATERIAL EVIDENCE is a book about curiosity. A trail of breadcrumbs through the forest. And an essay in wonder: I hope that by the time it closes, its reader might feel affirmed and recharged with energy to value the difference between that elusive spirit that we each, . . ."

. . . the book proceeds object by object: a christening dress, a letter, a wooden leg, a sweatshirt, a length of embroidery silk, a photograph.

MATERIAL EVIDENCE refuses the shape of a conventional life story, in favor of something closer to how memory actually works: associative, sensory, anchored in things. Rather than moving chronologically from childhood to the present . . .

FSG will publish MATERIAL EVIDENCE, the first book by Oscar-winning artist and performer, Tilda Swinton. Mitzi Angel, President and Publisher, FSG is set to edit the book for the publishing house.

I'm currently reading Paradise Burns by Pol Guasch; translated by Mara Faye Lethem. From the first chapter: "All this is to say that we exist because others remember us..." Out in October from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.