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Writing the Anthropocene with Madeleine Watts
Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 5 to February 23, 2023
In this class we will think about the challenges and possibilities of storytelling in the Anthropocene. How might thinking and writing about the...
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Voice vs. Narrative with Charles Bock
Once a week Fridays, 6:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 6 to February 10, 2023
Oftentimes, writers who are early in the writing journey are strong on voice, suspicious of plot. Voice is thrilling and creative, the mark of... -
School Days with Anne Fernald
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST January 9 to April 17, 2023
In this reading group, we’ll read four 20th century novels about school, from James Joyce, Muriel Spark, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Louis Begley -
The Promise with Elizabeth Howard
Every Other Week Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 10 to February 21, 2023
Damon Galgut’s novel, The Promise, published by Europa Press in 2021, was the recipient of the 2021 Booker Prize
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Kids, Kids, Kids
It has been a terrific year for young people’s literature. This week, The Center’s expert children’s bookseller, Ann... -
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A Cabinet of Curiosities
The holiday festivities are beginning but there are still 2022 books we don’t want to miss. Here we highlight voices from Spain... -
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Food, Glorious Food!
With Thanksgiving coming this week and more holidays around the corner, most of us are thinking about the wonderful food we are... -
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Empathetic Literature
This week we hear from writers who bring the world to us with passion and compassion in fiction and nonfiction -
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It's So Emotional
This grouping taps into emotional relationships—with family, friends, faith, food and life itself. We hear from a prolific... -
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Prize-Worthy Fiction
There are four authors this week who have been recently acknowledged by the prestigious Booker Prize. The fifth is a special... -
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What's on Your Mind?
Three works of literary nonfiction are in the spotlight this week, along with a prize-winning Scandinavian writer who has been... -
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Fall's Harvest
This week we offer an epic novel of the American South, stories that illuminate the absurdity of contemporary life, a glimpse... -
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Creature Discomforts
Often, getting out of your comfort zone enhances the pleasures of reading. This week two oversized creatures are featured, as... -
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Whale of a Tale
A ‘whale of a story’ means a great amount of a good thing and this week we have five novels that fit the description, including... -
The First Novel Prize
2022 First Novel Prize: The Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize. These seven titles were selected... -
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Something to Talk About
This week we are pleased to highlight a rousing jazz-infused debut novel which we are launching at The Center and a pitch-perfect... -
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Difficult People
Difficult people make for interesting reading. Characters who are mischievous, unstable, irrational, those who lack self-control... -
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Awakenings
Novels, short stories, stories that interlink to become a novel, and poetry: these books explore their characters’ psychological... -
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Top That
Four of this week’s writers are at the peak of their powers. Shimmering stories full of pain and loss and introspection... -
Bodies in Motion
The writers below share a talent for keeping the reader glued to the page and, in very different ways, address identity, physicality... -
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All This Is Very Different
This week we shake it up in subject and locale. Queer Indian girls in Wisconsin, East African political revolts, a Harlem apartment... -
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Getting to the Point
Two story collections and one short, short novel appear this week; two books are from Scandinavia; and our narrative nonfiction... -
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Hot Town, Summer in the City
The dog days of summer are here, and we turn to books that are hot and sultry, too. Like the weather, the four novels here take... -
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Busy Minds
These fine books represent some of the best writing of the summer. Their authors drill deep down into human psyches
