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Cleyvis Natera on Neruda on the Park with Naima Coster
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 17, 2022
When demolition begins on a nearby tenement, the Guerreros are forced to reimagine the their life in Nothar Park, the predominantly Dominican... -
NEA Big Read: Our Friend Toni: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Erroll McDonald on Toni Morrison's Legacy
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 18, 2022
It has been almost three years since the world lost the trailblazing, intrepid writer and scholar, Toni Morrison -
A Reading with the 2021-2022 Emerging Writer Fellows
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT May 19, 2022
The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2021-2022 Emerging Writer Fellows come together to share their published writing and works in progress
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May 16
BYOBook: A Quiet Happy Hour for Readers
5:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction Café & Bar* -
May 17
Cleyvis Natera on Neruda on the Park with Naima Coster
7:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction*
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May 18
NEA Big Read: Our Friend Toni: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Erroll McDonald on Toni Morrison's Legacy
7:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction*
& Online via Zoom
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The Art of Compression: A Class in Flash Fiction with Dawn Raffel
Wednesday & Saturday June 8 to June 11, 2022
What can a writer learn from compression? In a word, everything. Short works allow us to examine in a granular way how we make art out of language -
The Transit Between Everything: Translation and Creative Writing with Bonnie Chau
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 14 to August 2, 2022
“Say I bend, I love, I stretch, I break. // Say I bend language translation, I love language translation, I stretch language translation... -
Poetry and Translation with Erín Moure
Once a week Wednesdays, 4:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT June 22 to July 27, 2022
Over the six weeks we’ll create a relaxing and intriguing online group workspace to discuss poems that participants want to translate
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Unbroken
This week we continue to highlight a significant new book of poems for National Poetry Month; an exceptional memoir; plus, three... -
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Poetic / Justice
April is National Poetry Month, and it coincides with the much-awaited publication of Ocean Vuong’s new collection -
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Ukraine on the Page
We’d like to offer a small collection of exceptional fiction—new and old, long and short—from Ukraine -
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Read (A)broadly
We head out once more to farther shores in this selection: Iceland (a favorite returns), India (fiction from a journalist), Trinidad... -
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The Ideas of March
What can we celebrate this mid-March? Settling debts? St. Patrick’s Day? Daylight Savings Time? This group of books includes... -
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Women and History: Pasts, Presents and Futures
To usher in Women’s History Month, we have a political satire set in a fictional African country quietly controlled by women... -
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Fringe Benefits
This week we welcome in a stellar debut from a Southern Black writer, a dystopian novel in which Japan no longer exists, artistic... -
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Ambiguous Attachments
The following works explore attachments in many forms—to family, country, lovers and spouses. To their great credit, these... -
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Strange Pages
As we continue into Black History Month, we are treated to Marlon James’s second episode in his Dark Star trilogy, as well... -
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Love! Music! Heresy!
February is an often-gloomy month. Thankfully we offer you a mélange of love, music and two epics—one historical novel concerning... -
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Families Matter
This week we celebrate Black History Month with an exciting addendum to Toni Morrison’s oeuvre—a posthumous standalone story... -
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Traveling, through Time and Space
Trips to the Philippines, Italy and Cuba; sci-fi from a Nigerian American fan favorite; and a memoir by a bestselling Booker... -
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Singular Characters
Jumpstart your January reading with books that just won’t let up, whether due to eccentric lead characters, a plot that drives... -
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New Beginnings
Welcome to 2022. Was your New Year’s resolution to read more this year? Perhaps you received a Center for Fiction Gift Card... -
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Holiday Book Guide: 21 Fiction Highlights from '21
Thank you, our dear readers, for helping support us through the challenging times of this past year. We appreciate you and send... -
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Holiday Book Guide: Gift Books
This week’s selection is geared toward holiday gift-giving for the person who likes to look as well as read -
200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature
When The Center for Fiction opened its doors in 1821 as the Mercantile Library of New York, Percy Bysshe Shelley mourned his... -
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Holiday Book Guide: Cookbooks
The pandemic made cooks of us all, and there’s no time better than the holidays, when you have some time to spare, to test out new recipes -
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Holiday Book Guide: Young People's Literature
This week we highlight favorites from a year particularly rich in books for young people! These are our recommendations for holiday... -
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Live and Learn
This week marks the publication of a landmark book of Black history, one that is sure to change the conversation about slavery...
