Reading Groups
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Groups+Workshops
Pleasantview: Beauty and Brutality with Celeste Mohammed
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 8, 2022
For one evening only, join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction as we present an in-house book discussion of Pleasantview...
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Groups+Workshops
NEA Big Read: Virtual Book Discussion of Beloved for Adults with Dana A. Williams
2 Sessions: 6/11 & 6/25 Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 11 to June 25, 2022
Toni Morrison’s Beloved reflects a wide range of concerns in the American imagination. Morrison asks us to reimagine...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT June 15, 2022
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Memoir and Criticism: Constructing a Nervous System and The Song of the Lark with Jasmine Sanders
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 27 to September 19, 2022
Margo Jefferson is one of the most daring and incisive critics of the past 25 years. Her work effortlessly melds memoir, autobiography, and cultural commentary
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Groups+Workshops
Crime Travel with Frankie Bailey
4 Monthly Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 29 to September 21, 2022
This book discussion group will focus on international crime fiction. These four novels may inspire wanderlust and leave you longing to pack your...
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Groups+Workshops
Black Trailblazers in Romance with Norma Perez-Hernandez
3 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 30 to August 25, 2022
Romance has been one of the most beloved and maligned genres in fiction. Though romance novels make up a billion dollar industry, romance readers...
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Groups+Workshops
Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises with Robert Trogdon
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 30 to September 22, 2022
Ernest Hemingway is a writer too often more well-known for the life he led than for the works he wrote. The image of Hemingway merely as a heavy...
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Groups+Workshops
Brujas and Black Magic: Latinx Culture and Speculative Fiction with Joy Sanchez-Taylor
4 Sessions Tuesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 5 to August 30, 2022
The term “bruja” in Latinx cultures often has a negative association; a bruja is a troublemaker or a temptress—essentially, a woman who...