Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids! | The Center for Fiction

What’s Italian? A Journey through 20th Century Italy with Antonio Romani (Sold Out)

6 Sessions via Zoom Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 23 to May 4, 2021

Take a journey through 20th century Italy by way of 12 great short stories, selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories (edited...

5 Sessions via Zoom Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT February 28 to June 27, 2021

Whether presented explicitly or metaphorically, social justice themes in art (i.e., ableism, poverty, capitalism, race-based legislation/racism)...

4 Sessions via Zoom Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 4 to May 20, 2021

From Brexit to Trump, the refugee crisis to the pandemic, Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet elliptically explores the intersection of art, nature...

4 Sessions via Zoom Fridays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 5 to June 4, 2021

A wonderful book, a delicious meal, a relaxing cocktail, and stimulating conversation. We will read Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee...

6 Sessions via Zoom Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT March 3 to June 9, 2021

A soaring tale of literary adventure, Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives is packed with pimps, poets, detectives and dealers

A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt, Victoria Gosling’s Before the Ruins weaves a suspenseful...

Wednesday, 7:30 pm EDT February 24, 2021

How can nonfiction and fiction help correct the climate change crisis?

Wednesday, 7:30 pm EDT February 10, 2021

Award-winning actor Marin Ireland will perform a dramatic reading of the first chapter from Vendela Vida’s...

January is a perfect time to revisit that classic novel you either never read, or read too early in high school, or want to reread to deepen your...

Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT February 3, 2021

The event will open with a dramatic reading of a story from Dorthe Nors’s Wild Swims: Stories by Emmy Award-winning...