Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Reading the Russians with Sheila Kohler (Sold Out)
6 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 26, 2022 to January 9, 2023
We will read the Russians starting with some short stories featuring supernatural elements: the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol’s “The...
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Groups+Workshops
The Novels of Charles Dickens with Amanda Hollander
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 22 to December 22, 2022
In his critical writing on the works of Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton remarked that “Dickens knew that Socialism was coming, though...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: Latinx Terror with Marc L. Abbott
Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT September 18 to December 18, 2022
This fall, we step into the world of speculative fiction with terrifying works written by Latinx authors. In this session, we will read and dissect...
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Groups+Workshops
Revisionist Genre with Donna Raskin
4 Monthly Sessions Fridays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 16 to December 9, 2022
A Stranger Comes to Town. The Meet Cute. Genre novelists rely on conventions to fit their books into a category, but literary...
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Groups+Workshops
Don Quixote with Kannan Mahadevan
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 15 to November 3, 2022
It is hard to overstate the influence of Miguel de Cervantes’ two-part 17th century novel, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Busy Minds
These fine books represent some of the best writing of the summer. Their authors drill deep down into human psyches. Two of the novels are good...
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Book RecsFirst Novel Prize
2022 First Novel Prize
The Center for FictionThe Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize was awarded to Noor Naga for her debut novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English...
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Videos
Matt Easton on We Have Tired of Violence with Eric Umansky and Suciwati
In our current political moment, questions of civil rights and authoritarian regimes can’t help but float to the surface
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Abounds
Short and long fiction abounds this week, as well as an essay collection that gives wise advice for the changing ways in which we need to read these days
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Videos
The Craft of Fiction: Charles Baxter on Wonderlands with Joshua Henkin
The Center for Fiction was pleased to welcome author of Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter...
