Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises with Robert Trogdon
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 30 to September 22, 2022
Ernest Hemingway is a writer too often more well-known for the life he led than for the works he wrote. The image of Hemingway merely as a heavy...
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Groups+Workshops
Black Trailblazers in Romance with Norma Perez-Hernandez
3 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 30 to August 25, 2022
Romance has been one of the most beloved and maligned genres in fiction. Though romance novels make up a billion dollar industry, romance readers...
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Groups+Workshops
Memoir and Criticism: Constructing a Nervous System and The Song of the Lark with Jasmine Sanders
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 27 to September 19, 2022
Margo Jefferson is one of the most daring and incisive critics of the past 25 years. Her work effortlessly melds memoir, autobiography, and cultural commentary
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Against the Grain
The exceptional characters in this week’s selection include a college student pursuing the meaning of life, a hired mercenary on a cross country...
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Videos
NEA Big Read: Our Friend Toni: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Erroll McDonald on Toni Morrison's Legacy
It has been almost three years since the world lost the trailblazing, intrepid writer and scholar, Toni Morrison
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Videos
Cleyvis Natera on Neruda on the Park with Naima Coster
When demolition begins on a nearby tenement, the Guerreros are forced to reimagine their life in Nothar Park, the predominantly Dominican part...
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Events
On America: Claude Johnson on The Black Fives with Laura Washington
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 31, 2022
As the 2022 NBA playoffs ramp up, historian Claude Johnson joins The Center for Fiction for a rich conversation on an unsung...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Seize the Day
Five very different stories address the powerlessness one can feel when facing daily life. All are beautifully told, and find hope and inspiration...
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Events
Felicia Berliner on Shmutz with Abby Stein
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 2, 2022
Join Jewish Book Council, The Neighborhood, and The Center for Fiction for a special literary program featuring Felicia Berliner...
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Events
Booking for Love: Literary Speed Dating
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 24, 2024
If your dream meet-cute is reaching for the same book on the shelves of a bookstore that happens to have flattering natural light and a convenient...
