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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; two novels about...
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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 exile; a college...
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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 and the complicated...
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Artistic License
From the Harlem Renaissance to Midwestern nostalgia, the facade of perfection, interracial romance, and a Pakistani character’s vision of the...
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2023 First Novel Prize
The Center for FictionThe Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize was awarded to Tyriek White for his debut novel We Are a Haunting (Astra House)
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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 abound between family...
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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 writer’s...
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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 about women by one...
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How Eccentric
What a group of eccentrics we have this week: a surprising challenger to a marriage, a lonely former librarian, an obsessive art-lover, a woman...
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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 their plotlines or...