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Online Event: Kate Zambreno Launches Drifts with Rachel Syme

Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT May 19, 2020

” Intimate, fiercely intelligent, and reliably provocative, Drifts is Zambreno at her best.”

Actress Joan Allen joins us for another Story Time to get to the bottom of this mysterious case by Josh Lieb. Chapter Two is Missing!

This week we celebrate the coming of Mother’s Day with some authors from home and abroad, some enticing paperbacks you might have missed when...

Tuesday, 4:00 pm EDT June 23, 2020

Journalist Tim Murphy will interview Lucas Rocha on his engrossing debut novel Where We Go From Here, a moving and honest portrayal...

When Pokko the frog is sent outside with her new drum kit, she ends up with more music than she planned! Join stage and screen actor Peter Ganim...

Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT May 14, 2020

A masterpiece of the short form, “Bartleby” is perhaps the most considered American short story to reach from the nineteenth century...

Wednesday, 7:30 pm EDT May 20, 2020

“If you want to know what a black man can achieve in this country… this is the memoir you need.”

Julia Alvarez discussed writing Afterlife, her first adult novel in almost fifteen years, with author...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Fall Back Down When I Die explores issues of social disharmony, generational...

Follow along as actress Lili Taylor reads The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey, a story about the ways in which your...