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Avni Doshi on Burnt Sugar with Emily Temple

Tuesday, January 26th at Online Event

Avni Doshi joins Emily Temple (The Lightness) in conversation about her debut novel Burnt...
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Dialogue: Letting Your Characters Do More of the Work with De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Wednesday, February 10th - March 31st

How do we get more information to our readers without having our narrator go on and on? Why not let our characters do more of the heavy lifting.
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Queer & Coming of Age with Thomas Dooley

Wednesday, March 24th - June 23rd

While reflecting on his childhood, the narrator in Edmund White’s classic novel, A Boy’s Own Story, describes the sound of...
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Black Lives Matter

Dear Members and Friends of The Center, “I Can’t Breathe.” George Floyd’s last words, and Eric Garner’s, have come to...
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Elena Ferrante: The Early Works with Rebecca Falkoff

This discussion group, led by NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff, will be dedicated to Elena Ferrante’s first three novels, Troubling Love (1992), The Days of Abandonment (2002), and The Lost Daughter (2006), and her essay “Frantumaglia” (2003)

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Latinx Crime Fiction with Richie Narvaez

Latinx fiction often delves into history and politics, and crime fiction has always dealt with power and the status quo. In this reading group we will focus on that intersection, looking at a small selection of crime fiction novels (in English) by Latinx authors to discuss how their works explore issues...