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International Noir with Richie Narvaez (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST November 29, 2021 to February 21, 2022
Noir is not a product solely of the United States. All the world has nihilistic tales of doomed protagonists. In this reading group, we’ll... -
What Does It Take to Translate the Intangible?
Thursday, 7:00 pm EST December 16, 2021
Much of what translators work on doesn’t involve “meaning” in the dictionary sense. How do practitioners handle intangibles like rhyme... -
45:15 at The Center: A Communal Writing Experience
Saturday, 4:00 pm EST - 6:00 pm EST December 18, 2021
Approaching creative projects with a clear and focused mind can be a challenge. Revive your motivation to write at 45:15, a free community writing...
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Graham Greene: Belief and Doubt with Dennis Krieger (Online Only)
5 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EST - 8:30 pm EST December 16, 2021 to April 7, 2022
Back by popular demand! In five of Graham Greene’s most celebrated novels, Greene traverses the polarities between which his characters exist... -
“Not for Us”: Kafka’s Stories with Mike Levine (In Person or Online)
Every Other Week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EST - 7:30 pm EST January 11 to February 22, 2022
Is there a writer whose work has so insistently both invited and resisted interpretation as Franz Kafka? His life is equally confounding; scholars... -
Harlem Renaissance with Jennifer Baker (Online Only)
3 Monthly Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EST - 2:30 pm EST January 30 to March 20, 2022
Among one of the most well-known and referenced periods showcasing Black artists, the Harlem Renaissance also leaves an indelible mark in history...
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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... -
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Daylight Saving Reading
There is a melancholy that often descends when we turn back the clocks in November each year. It always affects my choice of... -
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Loyalists and Rebels
Compassionate short stories; tested loyalties; fiction and nonfiction explorations of two great writers; and the pairing of two... -
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Halloween Treats
A modern ghost story by a Pulitzer Prize-winner leads this week’s selections, followed by comic fiction about a troupe of characters... -
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The Vicissitudes of Love
Love and literature go well together—it might be romantic love, the love of culinary arts, the love of family, or the love of animals -
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True Friends
“True friends stab you in the front,” as Oscar Wilde once said. Here are books about unbreakable bonds, about reconnecting... -
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Generations
A debut storyteller leads the list this week with a collection set in the volatile American South that’s not to be missed -
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Stuck on You
The books here are stories about attachments—to family, to ourselves, and to the world. They include a meticulous examination... -
The First Novel Prize
Announcing the 2021 First Novel Prize Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. These seven titles were selected... -
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Welcome In
We are thrilled to celebrate the Fall 2021 literary season with Anthony Doerr’s new novel below, set partly in Constantinople -
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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
Two of this week’s selections confront the drastic changes in the world of climate change, with quite different takes on folding... -
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Personal Histories
There are six extraordinary novels this week from seasoned writers, two who are switching genres in their fiction -
A Bright New Season
Be prepared—September 2021 has some of the most extraordinary writers publishing new books of fiction, poetry, and essays -
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Summer's End
This week’s recommendations encompass several genres: historical fiction, thriller, short stories, horror, and a memoir... -
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Brave Women, Bold Nature
The recommendations this week naturally fell into two categories that often overlap: women and nature. We have a feminist retelling... -
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So, What Else Is New?
What seems appealing to read in the middle of these dog days of summer? How about some writing advice for that novel you’ve... -
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Hauntings
This week highlights two mysteries: an impressive contemporary debut that seems as though it was written in another era and one... -
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Eureka!
These five books could not be more different from one another, but they undeniably confirm why California is such a fertile setting... -
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The View Inside
A paen to W.E.B. Du Bois and a rediscovered gem of Black fiction; a frenetic memoir by an actor whose infectious energy will...
