Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
The International Library and BAM Present Clarice Lispector from Page to Screen
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 11, 2026
Join us for an evening devoted to the work and life of Clarice Lispector in collaboration with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Center...
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Events
The Future Is Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Literary World
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT March 12, 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world faster than most people can compute. For many in the literary world, the picture it paints is largely...
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Events
First Novel Friday: Westward Women, Slow Guillotine, and Every Happiness
Friday, 6:00 pm EDT March 6, 2026
This month, we are pleased to welcome debut novelists Alice Martin (Westward Women), Teo Rivera-Dundas (Slow...
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Book Recs
Internal Affairs
Five very different novels address the various ways fictional characters tackle the challenges before them—and change both themselves and the world
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Book Recs
Transitions
We are delighted to launch two of the books below at The Center—one about a freelancing poet questioning his life, the other a Mexican writer’s...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Kyle McCarthy on Immersions with Leslie Jamison
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 6, 2026
Step into the Gothic world of Immersions with Kyle McCarthy, author of Everyone Knows How Much I Love You...
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The Center for Fiction Presents Genre-Defying Authors Patrick Cottrell and Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Andrea Lawlor
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT April 22, 2026
Join us for an evening with Patrick Cottrell and Jordy Rosenberg, two of contemporary literature’s most daring...
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A Night of Irish Storytelling with Colm Tóibín
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT April 21, 2026
Join us for an evening with Colm Tóibín, the award-winning author of Brooklyn and Long Island, as he visits...
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The Center for Fiction Presents Jeff Boyd on Hard Times with Xochitl Gonzalez
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 24, 2026
Join us for an evening with Jeff Boyd as he discusses his gripping new novel, Hard Times, a moving and unflinching portrait...
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Book Recs
It’s a Mad, Mad World
The stories in this selection offer a bit of unhinged pleasure as well as discomfort. There is madness in the form of a Scandinavian asylum and...
