Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Viet Thanh Nguyen on To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Hua Hsu
Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Thanh Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The essays in his new...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Susan Choi on Flashlight with Sarah Thankam Mathews
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT June 3, 2025
The Center is thrilled to welcome acclaimed author Susan Choi (Trust Exercise) to celebrate the highly anticipated release...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Awakenings
Several versions of awakenings mark our five books this week: an immigrant son finds his voice; a writer discovers a shared trauma with both her...
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Events
Laureates in Conversation: Patricia Spears Jones and Jacqueline Woodson
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT May 28, 2025
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome Patricia Spears Jones, New York State Poet Laureate, and Jacqueline Woodson,...
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VideosThe Art of the Short Story
The Art of the Short Story: Lydia Millet on Atavists with Jenny Offill
The Center for Fiction welcomed Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet to celebrate the release of her new collection of short...
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VideosThe Art of the Short Story
The Art of the Short Story: Marie-Helene Bertino on Exit Zero with Vinson Cunningham
The Center for Fiction welcomed back Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland and 2011 alumna of The Center for Fiction...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
"The Very Essence of Romance is Uncertainty."
As Oscar Wilde once quipped, romance can take many forms. This week we have male friends and lovers; a triad of art-world influencers; linked...
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Groups+Workshops
Highsmith in the Morning with Regina Porter
Saturday, 11:30 am EDT - 4:00 pm EDT May 17, 2025
In Person | During this one-day seminar we will discuss Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, including but not limited...
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Videos
Story/Teller Arts: Eboni Booth on Primary Trust with Heidi Schreck
Playwright and actress Eboni Booth joined us to discuss her 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Primary Trust
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Henry James’s “The Aspern Papers” with Sheridan Hay
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 11, 2025
In Person | First published in 1888, Henry James’s long short story “The Aspern Papers” has as its inspiration a fragment of gossip...
