Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Of Kith and Kin
Aliens and cults; adultery; short fiction from a Big Sky Country master; murder in a Puerto Rican community; and a memoir from a beloved NYC chef and writer
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Urmila Seshagiri and Anne Fernald on the Experimental Fiction of Virginia Woolf
Acclaimed author and professor Urmila Seshagiri joined us to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Life of Violet...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Olivia Laing on The Silver Book with Rachel Kushner (Virtual Event)
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT November 11, 2025
Step into the world of The Silver Book with Olivia Laing, award-winning author of The Lonely City, Everybody...
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Adam Johnson on The Wayfinder
We welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son) to The Center for Fiction this fall...
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Past Is Present
Settings as far flung as the South Pacific, Bulgaria, Kolkata, and Northwest England, (plus Manhattan), feature in this week’s selection, which...
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First Novel Friday: The High Heaven, If the Dead Belong Here, and This Is the Only Kingdom
Friday, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT November 7, 2025
On the first Friday of the month, join us as we celebrate and launch a selection of the best debut novels published today
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Story/Teller Arts: David Henry Hwang on Yellow Face with James Ijames
Tony Award-winning playwright, composer, and writer, David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish), joined us...
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Oliver Jeffers on I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book with Sophie Blackall
Internationally bestselling artist and author Oliver Jeffers joined us for a conversation about his timely new picture book...
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"The Suspense Is Terrible. I Hope It Will Last." —Oscar Wilde
Three of our novels this week are in the thriller mode. There are ill-fated private investigators; a protagonist who becomes obsessed with a local...
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First Novel Friday: Little Movements, First Time, Long Time, and Pick a Color
October’s First Novel Friday debuts explore creative fulfillment within racialized spaces, the resilience inherent in immigrant labor, and the...
