Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
NEA Big Read: Virtual Book Discussion of Beloved for Adults with Dana A. Williams
2 Sessions: 6/11 & 6/25 Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 11 to June 25, 2022
Toni Morrison’s Beloved reflects a wide range of concerns in the American imagination. Morrison asks us to reimagine...
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Events
Alanna Schubach on The Nobodies with Katherine Hill
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 23, 2022
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome Emerging Writer Fellowship alum Alanna Schubach to our stage in celebration of...
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Events
Echoes of the Past: Ann Leary on The Foundling and Maud Newton on Ancestor Trouble
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 9, 2022
The burgeoning fascination with genealogy, epigenetics, and the concept of inherited trauma over the past few years points to a desire to understand...
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Events
Elizabeth Nunez on Now Lila Knows with Crystal Bobb-Semple
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT June 7, 2022
Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, Now Lila Knows, is urgent, timely, and necessary. The novel follows newly hired professor...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
What a Character
Happy Independent Bookstore Day!The four works of fiction this week, including two debuts, are character-driven stories. Their authors have created...
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Groups+Workshops
Pleasantview: Beauty and Brutality with Celeste Mohammed
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 8, 2022
For one evening only, join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction as we present an in-house book discussion of Pleasantview...
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Videos
Tara Stringfellow on Memphis with Christine Pride
Inspired by the author’s own family history, Tara Stringfellow’s debut novel, Memphis, is a triumphant ode to the...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
For the Love of Bookstores
This week we have a lovable heroine (whose story should continue in successive books), new translations of a dazzling German modernist...
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Videos
In Translation: Voices from Ukraine
We were grateful to partner with Razom for Ukraine to feature readings from the books Mondegreen: Songs About Love and Death by Volodymyr...
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Videos
marcus scott williams on damn near might still be is what it is with Simeon Marsalis
marcus scott williams’s debut novel damn near might still be is what it is is a tour de force of genre-blending that...
