Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Five Fictions About Fiction
Joshua Gaylord
The author of When We Were Animals selects five fictional books that reflect on the art form.
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Videos
In Coversation: Richard Ford and Joyce Carol
Two icons of American Literature, Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates, came together in a rare event to discuss...
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Videos
CFA Master Class: Elmore Leonard
Legendary author Elmore Leonard joined us for the first in our series of Master Classes as part of the Crime Fiction Academy at The Center for Fiction
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Videos
Anne Carson
Legendary poet and classicist Anne Carson reads from 59 Paragraphs About Albertine along with new work inspired by Proust’s characters...
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Videos
On Elena Ferrante: Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein
Elena Ferrante has long been considered one of the best writers of her generation in Italy, but now her novels and acclaim have...
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Fiction, Essays & More
On "Brass" by Joy Williams
Christine Schutt
Aurora, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston, all sites of rampage killings that left four or more dead. Inspired by just such mayhem, “Brass,”...
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Five Over Fifty
Elizabeth Marro
The author of Casualties picks five books by authors who got their start a little later in life.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Steve Almond, interviewed by Dawn Raffel
Steve Almond
Steve Almond likes to mix it up. The short story writer/novelist/journalist/ blogger/provocateur-at-large has engaged in intellectual pugilism...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWhy Fiction Matters
What Was It You Wanted?
Tom Piazza
I like spending time with the writers I like. I don’t like reading authors I don’t like.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreSyntax/Synapse Essays
On Mind & Meaning
Dexter Palmer
The pattern of my conversation with strangers at parties changed in two ways after I published a novel. The first, and the less common of the...
