Upcoming Events

September 2023

• Tuesday, September 5 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Presents Kim Coleman Foote on Coleman Hill with Sarah Jessica Parker and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• Thursday, September 7–Sunday, September 10
  Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 5
• Saturday, September 9 at 12pm ET
  Story Time Special Edition with Galia Bernstein Reading The Pumpernickel-Daffodil
• Tuesday, September 12 at 4pm ET
  Jaipur Literature Festival: The Written World with Martin Puchner and The Poetic Imagination: Rhyme, Rhythm and Reason
• Thursday, September 14 at 1:30pm ET
  The International Library and BCLF Present Elektrik: Francophone Literature in Glittering Translations
• Monday, September 18 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction and Harper’s Magazine Present What Happened to Gen X?
• Tuesday, September 19 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction and BLR present Jayne Anne Phillips on Night Watch with Danielle Ofri
• Wednesday, September 20 at 7pm ET
  On America: What We Talk About When We Talk About Book Bans
• Thursday, September 21 at 6pm ET
  The Café & Bar Presents Drink & Draft Night
• Friday, September 22 at 6pm ET
  Booking for Love: A Literary Speed Dating Event
• Tuesday, September 26 at 7pm ET
  Ayana Mathis on The Unsettled with Kiese Laymon
• Wednesday, September 27 at 7pm ET
  An Intimate Evening Salon with Anne Enright
• Friday, September 29 at 6pm ET
  Booking for Love: LGBTQ+ Edition
• Saturday, September 30 at 4pm ET
  Lampblack: Lab[our] Issue Launch

October 2023

• Tuesday, October 3 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction and BCLF Present Safiya Sinclair on How to Say Babylon with Tara Westover
• Wednesday, October 4 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Presents Melissa Broder on Death Valley with Karah Preiss
• Thursday, October 5 at 7pm ET
  In Translation: Jenny Erpenbeck on Kairos with Gal Beckerman
• Saturday, October 7 at 5pm ET
  The Café & Bar Presents Exhibit B in NYC: A Reading
• Tuesday, October 10 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Presents Patricia Marx and Roz Chast on Tired Town
• Wednesday, October 11 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Presents Bryan Washington on Family Meal with Ocean Vuong
• Thursday, October 12 at 7pm ET
  A Final Reading with The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2022-2023 Emerging Writer Fellows
• Tuesday, October 17 at 7pm ET
  Story/Teller: Tan Twan Eng on The House of Doors with Brandon Taylor
• Wednesday, October 18 at 1:30pm ET
  The International Library: Emily Wilson on The Iliad
• Thursday, October 19 at 7pm ET
  Story/Teller Arts: Tony Kushner on The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
• Saturday, October 21 at 5pm ET
  Biblio Bacchanal: Wine & Book Pairings
• Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm ET
  Let Us Descend: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward and Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Wednesday, October 25 at 7pm ET
  On America: Tim O’Brien on America Fantastica with Rick MacArthur
• Tuesday, October 31 at 7pm ET
  Story/Teller Arts: James Ijames on Fat Ham

November 2023

• Wednesday, November 1 at 7pm ET
  In Translation: The Complete Clarice Lispector Translations
• Wednesday, November 8 at 7pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Presents Lisa Gornick on Ana Turns with Joan Silber
• Thursday, November 9 at 7pm ET
  A Clandestine Rendezvous with Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich on the Legacy of John le Carré
• Thursday, November 16 at 1:30pm ET
  The International Library and Celebrate Mexico Now: Stitches, Secrets, Shame with Jazmina Barrera, Valeria Luiselli, and Christina MacSweeney
• Thursday, November 16 at 6pm ET
  Mexico Writes Now

December 2023

• Tuesday, December 5 at 6:30pm ET
  The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit