Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
NEA Big Read: Our Friend Toni: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Erroll McDonald on Toni Morrison's Legacy
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 18, 2022
It has been almost three years since the world lost the trailblazing, intrepid writer and scholar, Toni Morrison
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Events
The Center for Fiction Open House
Saturday, 12:00 pm EDT - 5:00 pm EDT April 30, 2022
Curious about becoming a member of The Center for Fiction? Join us for our first Open House on Independent Bookstore Day!
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Events
Julia Glass on Vigil Harbor with David Ebershoff
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 11, 2022
Set ten years in the future, Julia Glass’s Vigil Harbor is a gripping mystery and drama set against the quaint...
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Events
On America: 50 Years of Title IX with Sherry Boschert, Anucha Browne, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 4, 2022
June 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation which prohibited sex-based discrimination in federally funded education
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Events
NEA Big Read: A Celebration of Toni Morrison's Beloved with Jacqueline Woodson, Crystal Dickinson, and Ty Jones
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 3, 2022
Join us for an event celebrating Toni Morrison’s landmark masterpiece, Beloved! Jacqueline Woodson...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Language Itself
The books this week include a debut novel by one of our own, two books from the ’60s by a highly admired Danish writer, a collection of...
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Chantal V. Johnson on Post-traumatic with Torrey Peters
The Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow Chantal V. Johnson’s debut novel follows Vivian, a thirtysomething lawyer advocating for...
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Videos
Madhushree Ghosh on Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family with Mira Jacob and Mayukh Sen
From acclaimed food writer and social justice activist Madhushree Ghosh comes a beautiful culinary memoir which holds a magnifying...
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VideosStory/Teller
Story/Teller Arts: Putting It Together with James Lapine and Anna Deavere Smith
The Center for Fiction welcomed two of the most influential American theatre-makers, James Lapine and Anna Deavere Smith...
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VideosAuthor/Editor
Author/Editor: Dawn Winter on Sedating Elaine with Jenny Jackson
What can a numbed-out, brokenhearted lesbian do when her drug dealer threatens to dispatch his sadistic henchwoman on her unless she pays her debt? Simple
