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Fiction, Essays & More2022 First Novel Prize
An Interview with Jessamine Chan, 2022 First Novel Prize Finalist for The School for Good Mothers
Eliana Cohen-Orth
Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers, spoke with Eliana Cohen-Orth, The Center’s Event Production...
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Fiction, Essays & More2022 First Novel Prize
An Interview with Daphne Palasi Andreades, 2022 First Novel Prize Finalist for Brown Girls
Majo Restrepo
Daphne Palasi Andreades, author of Brown Girls, spoke with Majo Restrepo, The Center’s Development Associate...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
A Cabinet of Curiosities
The holiday festivities are beginning but there are still 2022 books we don’t want to miss. Here we highlight voices from Spain, Canada and...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Food, Glorious Food!
With Thanksgiving coming this week and more holidays around the corner, most of us are thinking about the wonderful food we are going to cook and eat
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VideosThe Art of the Short Story
The Art of the Short Story: Andrea Barrett on Natural History with Ruth Franklin
To round out our season of fabulous short stories, National Book Award-winning author Andrea Barrett joined The Center for Fiction...
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VideosStory/Teller
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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Videos
Brigitta Olubas on Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life with Sheridan Hay
In Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, the extraordinary life of the award-winning writer of The...
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Groups+Workshops
Infinite Jest with William Mottolese
10 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT December 15, 2022 to June 22, 2023
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace has become one of those imposing books, like Ulysses or Gravity’s Rainbow...
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Groups+Workshops
Diverse Thrillers with Jennifer Baker
4 Monthly Sessions Sundays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT January 15 to April 16, 2023
The beauty of thrillers is the suspension of belief and setting aside of expectations. This reading group focuses on four novels by contemporary...
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Groups+Workshops
The Horrors That Haunt Us with Hilary Davidson
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 12 to April 6, 2023
Gothic novels often deal with the supernatural, but a powerful tradition of female writers have long employed the genre to explore the terrors...