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Under the Influence: Reading and Journaling Teju Cole with Elizabeth Howard
Five Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 9 to March 12, 2024
Teju Cole’s Open City is a peripatetic, meditative novel about reflection and processing. Participants in this reading group will be... -
Beyond Cli-Fi with Outlandish: Black and Indigenous Nature Lit with Benje Williams
Four Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST January 10 to April 17, 2024
Despite the profound presence of the natural world in Black lives throughout time, authors of color are not commonly associated with nature or place-based writing -
Contemporary African Novels with Nana Brew-Hammond
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 10 to May 1, 2024
Though much has been written about the ways colonialism and the slave trades have impacted Africa and Africans, and how politics and poverty have...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels with Thais Vitorelli
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST January 16 to April 9, 2024
Elena Ferrante’s beloved Neapolitan Novels use evocative imagery to illustrate themes of female identity, motherhood, friendship, legacy, and citizenship -
Tolstoy's "Master and Man" and a Cocktail with Pam Newton
Thursday, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 11, 2024
Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” tells the tale of a landowner and a peasant becoming lost in a brutal snowstorm, exploring themes of human goodness... -
John Banville and His Many Worlds of Narrative with William Mottolese
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST January 4 to April 25, 2024
Dive into John Banville’s rich language, complex plots, and dark humor from his earliest canonical novels to his most recent work, and explore...
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Cultural Concoctions
Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody -
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Cooking Up a Storm
The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup... -
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Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world -
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Natural Selection
Let’s be thankful this November for these five extraordinary writers with new works of fiction. We have a master of prose returning... -
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Only Connect
To take the sting out of the end of Daylight Saving Time, we’ve started compiling your cold weather reading lists, including... -
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How Spooky
As we approach Halloween it seems timely to read fiction that is in some way ghostly. This week each book has disturbing aspects... -
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Take the Journey
These five books are examples of what reading pleasures still await in the fall season. An extraordinary portrait of an enslaved... -
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Dénouement
This week we have murder in Bordeaux, as well as in British Malaya (by an author we have the pleasure of hosting); a rumination... -
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Stories to Tell
Four striking collections of stories, and the most recent novel by a prize-winning queer Black writer who is launching his book... -
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How We Live
This week we have two powerful memoirs from writers who came to the U.S. after difficult childhoods; the funniest novel you’ll... -
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Places Between
An Italian dystopian future; an epic novel about the natural world through the lens of a single dwelling; a South African writer’s... -
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What’s Going On
With September in full swing there are many events to celebrate. We mark the beginning of National Hispanic Literature Month... -
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Getting By
Characters, real and imagined, deal with the hands they were dealt—whether it is surviving the contemporary pandemic, hunger... -
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
Whether it’s due to growing up celebrating the Jewish New Year or from living in New York where September brings a deluge... -
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Search and You Will Find
This week look for a Korean American father who goes missing; a harrowing novel about survival in the sea; a portrait of a 19th... -
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Emotional Disturbances
This week’s characters are often on the brink: a housewife dangerously weary of her life; a Dublin family hanging by a thread... -
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Style and Substance
This week there is a plethora of styles and genres: a dystopian pandemic novel; an old-school fictional biography; a tale of... -
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Under Pressure
Three tension-filled works of fiction by highly acclaimed authors present characters and plots driven in part by racial differences... -
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Artistic License
From the Harlem Renaissance to Midwestern nostalgia, the facade of perfection, interracial romance, and a Pakistani character’s... -
First Novel Prize
2023 First Novel Prize
The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize was awarded to Tyriek White for his debut novel We Are a Haunting...
