Story/Teller
Our Story/Teller series features actors reading from new works of fiction to give audiences a taste of the language, characters, and story, followed by moderated conversations with the authors.
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Story/Teller Arts: Quiara Alegría Hudes on My Broken Language
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes (Water by the Spoonful) joined The Center for Fiction to celebrate... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Appropriate/An Octoroon with Jocelyn Bioh
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to have welcomed one of America’s most inventive and profound playwrights, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Black Punk Now! Vernon Reid, Chris L. Terry, and James Spooner with Honeychild Coleman and Mariah Stovall
The Center for Fiction celebrated Black Punk Now, a bold and urgent multigenerational anthology capturing the present and looking towards...
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Story/Teller Arts: Tony Kushner on The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures with Isaac Butler
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to have welcomed legendary playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) to celebrate... -
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Story/Teller Arts: James Ijames on Fat Ham with Jonathan McCrory
On the heels of Fat Ham’s critically acclaimed Broadway run, James Ijames joined The Center for Fiction for a rich... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Will Arbery and Chloé Cooper Jones with Leslie Jamison
The Center for Fiction and Theatre Communications Group were thrilled to welcome playwright Will Arbery and philosopher and...
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Story/Teller: Victor LaValle's Lone Women with Krystal Joy Brown
The Center for Fiction welcomed Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Changeling, The Devil in Silver)... -
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Story/Teller Arts: An Evening with Taylor Mac
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome renowned theatre artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer finalist Taylor Mac for... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Martyna Majok on Cost of Living with Naveen Kumar and David Zayas
The Center for Fiction was proud to welcome Martyna Majok, the playwright behind the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost...
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Story/Teller Arts: Putting It Together with James Lapine and Anna Deavere Smith
The Center for Fiction welcomed two of the most influential American theatre-makers, James Lapine and Anna Deavere Smith... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Aleshea Harris with Nissy Aya
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome one of the most innovative, uncompromising, boundary-breaking dramatists of today, Aleshea... -
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Story/Teller Arts: Playwright Sarah Ruhl and Composer Matthew Aucoin in Conversation
Award-winning playwright, poet, and essayist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)...
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Story/Teller: Andrea Yaryura Clark on On a Night of a Thousand Stars with Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan (A Visit from The Goon Squad) joined Andrea Yaryura Clark... -
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Story/Teller: Tochi Onyebuchi on Goliath with Ken Liu and Siddiq Saunderson
In his exhilarating adult fiction debut Goliath, author Tochi Onyebuchi stages a futuristic biblical epic through disparate... -
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Story/Teller: Gary Shteyngart Presents Our Country Friends with Sloane Crosley and Frank Wood
Gary Shteyngart, “one of his generation’s most original and exhilarating writers,” according to the New York Times...
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Story/Teller: Kia Corthron on Moon and the Mars with Denne Michele Norris
Kia Corthron, the winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, celebrated... -
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Story/Teller: Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie with Kara Young and Mira Jacob
Whiting Award-winning author Kaitlyn Greenidge joined author Mira Jacob (Good Talk) to celebrate the... -
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NEA Big Read: Story/Teller Invitation to Read A Lesson Before Dying
Award-winning author and The Center for Fiction Board member Jacqueline Woodson hosts this special on-demand Story/Teller event...
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Story/Teller: We Run the Tides with Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Marin Ireland
Award-winning actor Marin Ireland performed a dramatic reading of the first chapter from Vendela Vida’s... -
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Story/Teller: Wild Swims with Dorthe Nors, Merritt Wever, and Brigid Hughes
Emmy Award-winning actor Merritt Wever performed a dramatic reading of a story from Dorthe Nors’s Wild... -
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Story/Teller: Truly Like Lightning with David Duchovny and Jess Walter
David Duchovny and Jess Walter (The Cold Millions) are back together, this time to talk about Duchovny’s...
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Story/Teller with Zeyn Joukhadar, Samy Nour Younes, Leila Buck, and Jenn Baker
Actors Samy Nour Younes and Leila Buck performed selections from Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty... -
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Story/Teller with Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton, and Kim Stanley Robinson
Edward Norton, who wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a film adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless... -
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Story/Teller: The Cold Millions with Jess Walter and David Duchovny
Actor David Duchovny performed a dramatic reading from Jess Walter’s outstanding historical novel The...
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Story/Teller: Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind with Tonya Pinkins, Marin Ireland, and Jessica Winter
Renowned stage and screen actors Tonya Pinkins (1992 Tony Award winner) and Marin Ireland (2009 Tony Award nominee)... -
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Story/Teller with Ayad Akhtar, Aasif Mandvi, and Jennifer Egan
Playwright and author Ayad Akhtar joined actor Aasif Mandvi to perform selections from his newest novel Homeland... -
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Story/Teller with Walter Mosley, Leon Addison Brown, and Jamia Wilson
Prolific stage and screen actor Leon Addison Brown performed a dramatic reading from The Awkward Black Man (Grove Press)...
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Story/Teller: Deborah Levy Presents The Man Who Saw Everything with Richard Bekins
Stage and screen actor Richard Bekins performed excerpts from Deborah Levy’s The... -
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Story/Teller: Kate Walbert Presents She Was Like That with Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor performed excerpts from Kate Walbert’s new collection of stories, She Was Like That... -
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Story/Teller: Salman Rushdie, Joan Allen, Ayad Akhtar, & Aasif Mandvi Present Quichotte
We were delighted to host an intimate evening with Salman Rushdie on the night of the release of Quichotte! Ayad Akhtar, Joan Allen and...
