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Joyce Before Ulysses: Exploring Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with William Mottolese (Sold Out)

Four Sessions via Zoom Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 21 to April 22, 2021

Only because James Joyce eventually wrote Ulysses and Finnegans Wake do Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist...

Four Sessions via Zoom Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 11 to April 12, 2021

One of the great novelists in English, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote four masterpieces of modernist fiction between 1925 and 1931

With a sigh of relief that the election is basically over, we are ready to turn to the future—and a handful of books that do just that

Revisit the ceremony held in remembrance of author Toni Morrison at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on November 21, 2019.

Critically acclaimed author Nicole Krauss spoke to Julie Orringer (The Flight Portfolio) on what it...

Sometimes we just need something concise and brief and diminutive, of modest size (but not necessarily scope). Perhaps a little something for...

In this fraught election year, The Center for Fiction was proud to present a special performance of James Baldwin’s essay...

The Half-God of Rainfall is a many-layered thing and has been described as an epic revenge fantasy on love and basketball, a meditation...

Thursday, 7:30 pm EDT December 3, 2020

Featuring Yvonne Orji, James McBride, Vinnie Malhotra, Chris Jackson, Ethan Hawke, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the First Novel Prize...

Some of the finest books of the season are just coming out now. They can provide a welcome alternative to the daily news cycle and just might...