Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
Story/Teller Arts: David Henry Hwang on Yellow Face with James Ijames
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT October 8, 2025
Tony Award-winning playwright, librettist, and author, David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish), joins us to celebrate...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Kiran Desai on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny with Marlon James
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT September 30, 2025
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Freeing One's Voice
Two powerful memoirs lead this week’s selection—one recounting a Black man’s journey through trauma to literary success and its aftermath...
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Videos
First Novel Friday: Hot Girls with Balls, Gingko Season, and Lonely Crowds
On the first Friday of the month, we celebrate and launch a selection of the best debut novels published today. The evening kicks off with a happy...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Oliver Jeffers on I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book with Sophie Blackall
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT October 7, 2025
Join internationally bestselling artist and author Oliver Jeffers at The Center for Fiction for an illuminating conversation...
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Events
2025 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival: Root & Remedy
Saturday & Sunday September 6 to September 7, 2025
This year, the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival becomes a literary botánica, a sacred space where story meets ritual and memory becomes medicine.
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Oh, Horrors!
There are many versions of a horror story, as three of the books this week confirm. We propose: a wild ride into the near future in Japan involving...
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Events
A Final Reading with The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2024–2025 Emerging Writer Fellows
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT October 23, 2025
Join us as The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2024–2025 Emerging Writer Fellows come together to conclude their cohort year and share their...
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Book RecsFirst Novel Prize
2025 First Novel Prize
The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize was awarded to Darrell Kinsey for his debut novel Natch (Iowa University Press)
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Survival of the Fittest
The dog days of summer make it difficult to thrive (packed, steamy subways; hot asphalt; over-air-conditioned offices and stores)
