Events | The Center for Fiction

The Center for Fiction Presents Valeria Luiselli on Beginning Middle End

Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 28, 2026

Don’t miss acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive, The Story of My Teeth) when she visits...

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 9, 2026

Join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction for a keynote conversation with Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon...

Friday, 7:00 pm EDT September 11, 2026

We are pleased to welcome celebrated writer Edwidge Danticat back to The Center for Fiction for the launch of her new novel...

Saturday, 2:15 pm EDT September 12, 2026

Join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction as we welcome author Julia Alvarez and illustrator Krystal...

Sunday, 3:00 pm EDT September 13, 2026

Join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction for the launch of That You Are Here Is No Small Thing, a new...

Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 15, 2026

Join us for the launch of Lydia Mathis’s debut story collection, Desperate Bodies, with writer, professor, and publisher...

Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 22, 2026

Join us to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book...

Thursday, 12:30 pm EDT - 6:15 pm EDT September 24, 2026

The Center for the Art of Translation presents the seventh annual Day of Translation in partnership with The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn

Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT September 24, 2026

The Center for the Art of Translation presents the seventh annual Day of Translation in partnership with The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 7, 2026

Join us for the launch of Every Story Is a Love Story, the much-anticipated new novel from Imbolo Mbue, author of the...