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Cooking Up a Storm
The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup... -
Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world -
Natural Selection
Let’s be thankful this November for these five extraordinary writers with new works of fiction. We have a master of prose returning... -
Only Connect
To take the sting out of the end of Daylight Saving Time, we’ve started compiling your cold weather reading lists, including... -
How Spooky
As we approach Halloween it seems timely to read fiction that is in some way ghostly. This week each book has disturbing aspects... -
Take the Journey
These five books are examples of what reading pleasures still await in the fall season. An extraordinary portrait of an enslaved... -
Dénouement
This week we have murder in Bordeaux, as well as in British Malaya (by an author we have the pleasure of hosting); a rumination... -
Stories to Tell
Four striking collections of stories, and the most recent novel by a prize-winning queer Black writer who is launching his book... -
How We Live
This week we have two powerful memoirs from writers who came to the U.S. after difficult childhoods; the funniest novel you’ll... -
The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. These seven titles were selected... -
Places Between
An Italian dystopian future; an epic novel about the natural world through the lens of a single dwelling; a South African writer’s... -
What’s Going On
With September in full swing there are many events to celebrate. We mark the beginning of National Hispanic Literature Month... -
Getting By
Characters, real and imagined, deal with the hands they were dealt—whether it is surviving the contemporary pandemic, hunger... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Under Pressure
Three tension-filled works of fiction by highly acclaimed authors present characters and plots driven in part by racial differences... -
Artistic License
From the Harlem Renaissance to Midwestern nostalgia, the facade of perfection, interracial romance, and a Pakistani character’s... -
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...