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Jo Firestone and Guest Performers Present Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EST February 1, 2023
Join comedian Jo Firestone, author Hannah Tinti, publisher Erika Goldman, and more special... -
The Center for Fiction Presents De'Shawn Charles Winslow on Decent People with Garth Greenwell
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EST February 8, 2023
The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize-winning author De’Shawn Charles Winslow (In West Mills) returns to celebrate...
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Feb 01
Jo Firestone and Guest Performers Present Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman
7:00 pm EST at The Center for Fiction
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Feb 03
Booking for Love: A Literary Speed Dating Event (Sold Out)
6:00 pm EST at The Center for Fiction -
Feb 08
The Center for Fiction Presents De'Shawn Charles Winslow on Decent People with Garth Greenwell
7:00 pm EST at The Center for Fiction
& Livestreamed
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Booking for Love: LGBTQ+ Edition
Friday, 6:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST February 10, 2023
If your dream meet-cute is reaching for the same book on the shelves of a bookstore that happens to have flattering natural light and a convenient... -
The Center for Fiction Presents Jamila Minnicks on Moonrise Over New Jessup with Robert Jones, Jr.
Thursday, 7:00 pm EST February 16, 2023
The Center for Fiction welcomes Jamila Minnicks for a rich conversation on her acclaimed debut novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup... -
On America: The Big Payback and Reparations
Saturday, 5:00 pm EST February 18, 2023
The Center for Fiction and Color Farm Media (John Lewis: Good Trouble; Finding Tamika) present a screening of The...
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Wonder-Full
This week includes a riveting novel about a woman’s unravelling—one of my favorite books of the new year; a wildly creative... -
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The Whole World
Spanning the globe this week, we travel around the world with a group of artful and totally entertaining writers: a Bosnian American... -
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Volatile Worlds
Two novels in translation from Italy, indigenous crime in New Zealand, an American climate epic, and a debut of speculative fantasy... -
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Criminally Good
It’s a crime that there isn’t more time for all the books we intended to read in 2022 and now here comes more—five enticing... -
The Literarians
The Literarians: 2022 Selections
Featuring titles by Laird Hunt, Deesha Philyaw, Michelle Zauner, Louise Erdrich, Katie Kitamura, Xochitl Gonzalez, Emily St.... -
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And to All a Good Night
Our many thanks to you, our dear readers, members and patrons of The Center, our Bookstore, and our Café & Bar -
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Holiday Picks: Gift Books
Here is a selection of the season’s most tempting illustrated volumes. We also have a fine collection of The Center for Fiction... -
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Holiday Picks from Our Library and Bookstore Staff
One of the best features of The Center for Fiction is our Staff Recommendations. This week I asked our Library and Bookstore... -
Kids, Kids, Kids
It has been a terrific year for young people’s literature. This week, The Center’s expert children’s bookseller, Ann... -
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A Cabinet of Curiosities
The holiday festivities are beginning but there are still 2022 books we don’t want to miss. Here we highlight voices from Spain... -
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Food, Glorious Food!
With Thanksgiving coming this week and more holidays around the corner, most of us are thinking about the wonderful food we are... -
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Empathetic Literature
This week we hear from writers who bring the world to us with passion and compassion in fiction and nonfiction -
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It's So Emotional
This grouping taps into emotional relationships—with family, friends, faith, food and life itself. We hear from a prolific... -
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Prize-Worthy Fiction
There are four authors this week who have been recently acknowledged by the prestigious Booker Prize. The fifth is a special... -
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What's on Your Mind?
Three works of literary nonfiction are in the spotlight this week, along with a prize-winning Scandinavian writer who has been... -
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Fall's Harvest
This week we offer an epic novel of the American South, stories that illuminate the absurdity of contemporary life, a glimpse... -
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Creature Discomforts
Often, getting out of your comfort zone enhances the pleasures of reading. This week two oversized creatures are featured, as... -
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Whale of a Tale
A ‘whale of a story’ means a great amount of a good thing and this week we have five novels that fit the description, including... -
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Something to Talk About
This week we are pleased to highlight a rousing jazz-infused debut novel which we are launching at The Center and a pitch-perfect... -
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Difficult People
Difficult people make for interesting reading. Characters who are mischievous, unstable, irrational, those who lack self-control...
