Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Hot Town, Summer in the City
The dog days of summer are here, and we turn to books that are hot and sultry, too. Like the weather, the four novels here take you into spaces...
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Events
Hot Summer Romance! Bridgerton Marathon with Romance Superstars Sarah Maclean and Adriana Herrera
Sunday, 12:00 pm EDT August 14, 2022
Escape the heat outside and join us at The Center for Fiction* for a day of (air-conditioned) steamy romance! Grab a delicious iced drink from...
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Groups+Workshops
Advanced Proust: In Search of Lost Time with Lila Azam Zanganeh (Sold Out)
Third Tuesday of Every Month Tuesdays, 5:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDT September 20, 2022 to August 15, 2023
“An open book is time regained,” wrote Bernard de Fallois, a legendary French editor and Proustian who, upon dying in 2018, released a trove...
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Groups+Workshops
Born Freaks: A Katherine Dunn Reading Group with Naomi Huffman (Featuring Special Guests!)
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 4 to November 8, 2022
Upon its release in 1989, Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love captivated readers with the grotesque and fabulous Binewski family’s carnival...
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Groups+Workshops
Belief and Doubt: The Novels of Graham Greene (and One by John le Carré) with Dennis Krieger
5 Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 29, 2022 to January 26, 2023
Dennis Krieger will again lead his popular Graham Greene reading group! In five of Graham Greene’s most celebrated novels, Greene traverses...
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Groups+Workshops
The Great Fire: A Shirley Hazzard Reading Group with Sheridan Hay (Sold Out)
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 8 to November 29, 2022
Twenty-three years after the publication of The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire was published to acclaim...
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Groups+Workshops
Italo Calvino and the Natural World with Antonio Romani
Once a week Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 15 to November 19, 2022
We’ll focus on eight stories from Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City, and particular chapters in The Baron in the Trees and in Mr
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Groups+Workshops
The Other Side of the Coin: Dystopia and Utopia in Short Fiction with Jacqueline Ahl
Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 13 to November 10, 2022
Sir Thomas More coined the term “Utopia” to describe an island with an idyllic community, free from common societal ills
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Groups+Workshops
The Wings of the Dove: A Henry James Reading Group with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 6 to October 27, 2022
The Henry James reading group returns to consider one of James’s great, late novels: The Wings of the Dove. First published in 1902...
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Groups+Workshops
The Novels of Yoko Tawada with Miriam Tuliao
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 26 to December 19, 2022
Dreamy, dystopic, and delightfully strange, Yoko Tawada’s stories traverse the boundaries of culture, identity, language, and consciousness
