Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Harlem Renaissance with Jennifer Baker (Online Only) — Sold Out
3 Monthly Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT January 30 to March 20, 2022
Among one of the most well-known and referenced periods showcasing Black artists, the Harlem Renaissance also leaves an indelible mark in history...
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Groups+Workshops
“Not for Us”: Kafka’s Stories with Mike Levine (Online Only) — Sold Out
Every Other Week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 11 to February 22, 2022
Is there a writer whose work has so insistently both invited and resisted interpretation as Franz Kafka? His life is equally confounding; scholars...
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Groups+Workshops
Graham Greene: Belief and Doubt with Dennis Krieger (Online Only)
5 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT December 16, 2021 to April 7, 2022
Back by popular demand! In five of Graham Greene’s most celebrated novels, Greene traverses the polarities between which his characters exist...
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Groups+Workshops
Unruly Islands: Uprisings and Revolts in Caribbean History and Fiction with BCLF (In Person or Online)
4 Monthly Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT December 15, 2021 to March 9, 2022
From Grenada to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago to Haiti, the Caribbean has always wielded a power that belies the sun-washed beauty of its territories
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Groups+Workshops
International Noir with Richie Narvaez (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT November 29, 2021 to February 21, 2022
Noir is not a product solely of the United States. All the world has nihilistic tales of doomed protagonists. In this reading group, we’ll...
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Events
National Teen Storyteller Contest: Friendship
Submissions Accepted November 1 to November 30, 2021
The Center for Fiction is once again partnering with The Decameron Project for a National Teen Storyteller Contest. Young writers, ages 13-18...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Halloween Treats
A modern ghost story by a Pulitzer Prize-winner leads this week’s selections, followed by comic fiction about a troupe of characters in Edenic...
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Events
The First Novel Fête
Friday, 6:30 pm EDT December 3, 2021
Tickets now available! In celebration of The Center for Fiction’s 200th anniversary and the seven finalists for the First Novel Prize.
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Events
What Does It Take to Translate the Intangible?
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT December 16, 2021
Much of what translators work on doesn’t involve “meaning” in the dictionary sense. How do practitioners handle intangibles like rhyme...
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Events
The Art of the Short Story: Cara Blue Adams on You Never Get It Back with Marie-Helene Bertino
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT November 22, 2021
Join us for a preview of Cara Blue Adams’s debut short story collection, You Never Get it Back
