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An Intimate Evening Salon with Anne Enright
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 27, 2023
The latest event in The Center for Fiction’s Salon series features Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker prize and author... -
The Center for Fiction and BCLF Present Safiya Sinclair on How to Say Babylon with Tara Westover
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 3, 2023
The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival welcome Whiting Award-winning poet and author Safiya Sinclair... -
Let Us Descend: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 24, 2023
A co-presentation by The Town Hall and The Center for Fiction.
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Constant Flight Forward: César Aira and His Bonkers Books with Samuel Rutter
Five Sessions 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 27 to January 24, 2023
For the past forty years, César Aira has been publishing short, madcap novels that blend genres, break rules, and surprise the reader -
Dickens, Gaskell, and Collins with Amanda Hollander
Six Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 28, 2023 to January 4, 2024
Follow three Victorian writers from southern to northern England in Great Expectations, The Moonstone, and North and South... -
Surgery on the Sentence Level with Omer Friedlander
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT September 30 to October 1, 2023
Tear open your story and patch it up again, narrowing in on the prose, rhythm, and flows of narrative time.
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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... -
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... -
The First Novel Prize
The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Longlist
We are pleased to announce the longlist for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. The twenty-five debut novels were... -
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Endless Summer
Sometimes high summer zaps all your energy except the ability to be prone and read a page-turning novel. This week, reunions... -
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A Closer Look
This week’s authors are keen observers of American culture. For antic humor there is the second installment of a prize-winning... -
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She's So Unusual
This week we’re highlighting writing by women, two of whom you can meet at events at The Center. We have short stories... -
How Eccentric
What a group of eccentrics we have this week: a surprising challenger to a marriage, a lonely former librarian, an obsessive... -
Beyond the Comfort Zone
Sometimes it’s nice to get out of your comfort zone. These five books offer an opportunity to do just that, either through... -
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The Meanings of Love
This week’s grouping includes two very different and equally compelling novels to help celebrate Pride; sensational stories... -
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Let's Get Lost
Three utterly absorbing works of fiction lead this week’s selection: a German novelist’s latest in an impeccable translation... -
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Animal Attraction
An octopus and a cougar star in two different novels this week. We also have dreamlike encounters abroad from one of our favorite... -
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Life's Work
The lives of creative individuals inform four books of different genres this week—in memoir, biography, history, and narrative nonfiction -
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Look Inside the Book
This week you’ll discover the latest from a Center favorite who has graced us with his presence at several past events; laughs... -
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Simply Put
One-word titles always catch my eye and ear, and this week four of the novels qualify. For two of them, we have signed copies while they last
