Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Good Moms, Bad Moms: Mothers in Contemporary French Autobiographies with Lise Schreier
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 5 to December 21, 2023
Mothers are central characters in many artists’ emotional and creative landscapes. Explore how five French authors have expressed their overpowering...
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Groups+Workshops
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying with Elizabeth Howard
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 4 to October 25, 2023
An experiment in modernism, with its innovative use of multiple voices exploring themes of cultural alienation, As I Lay Dying remains...
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Groups+Workshops
Dickens, Gaskell, and Collins with Amanda Hollander
Six Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 28, 2023 to January 4, 2024
Follow three Victorian writers from southern to northern England in Great Expectations, The Moonstone, and North and South...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
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; two novels about...
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Events
Mexico Writes Now
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT November 16, 2023
Join us for a unique opportunity to hear from some of Mexico’s leading voices in academia, poetry, novel and essay writing as they share...
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Events
Story/Teller Arts: Tony Kushner on The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures with Isaac Butler
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT February 27, 2024
With performances by F. Murray Abraham, Linda Emond, James Cusati-Moyer, and Ben ShenkmanThe Center for Fiction is...
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Events
Tan Twan Eng on The House of Doors with Brandon Taylor
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 17, 2023
Join us for a very special evening with Tan Twan Eng, celebrated author of The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening...
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Events
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 5
Thursday—Sunday September 7 to September 9, 2023
Get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant and captivating world of Caribbean literature at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 5!
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Events
Story/Teller Arts: James Ijames on Fat Ham with Jonathan McCrory
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 31, 2023
On the heels of Fat Ham’s critically acclaimed Broadway run, James Ijames joins The Center for Fiction for a rich...
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Events
In Translation: Jenny Erpenbeck on Kairos with Gal Beckerman
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT October 5, 2023
The Center for Fiction’s latest event celebrating the art of translation features Jenny Erpenbeck (Go, Went, Gone...
