Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Viet Thanh Nguyen on To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Hua Hsu
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT May 1, 2025
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 Art of the Short Story: Marie-Helene Bertino on Exit Zero with Vinson Cunningham
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT April 22, 2025
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome back Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland and 2011 alumna of The...
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Videos
The Metropolitan Opera's Moby-Dick: A Panel Discussion with Gene Scheer, Leonard Foglia, and Sheridan Hay
The Center for Fiction partnered with The Metropolitan Opera to celebrate Moby-Dick, which returns to the stage March...
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Groups+Workshops
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary with Mike Levine
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 1 to April 22, 2025
In Person | Discover why Madame Bovary is among the most powerful explorations of an eternal problem—how to negotiate the...
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Groups+Workshops
Henry James's The Princess Casamassima with Sheridan Hay
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT May 8 to May 29, 2025
Online | Did Henry James write a political novel? The Princess Casamassima, a departure from his focus on privilege and leisure...
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Groups+Workshops
Two Lies and a Truth: Reading Between the Lines of Fact and Fiction with Sullivan Summer
3 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 21 to June 23, 2025
Online | Mark Twain once said, “Fact is stranger than fiction, but that is because Fiction is obligated to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t
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Groups+Workshops
Hardy in a Time of Change with Amy Wong
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 21 to June 2, 2025
Online | Discover why the work of Thomas Hardy, often considered the most pessimistic of the major Victorian novelists, remains relevant...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Black, Writing Back, Writing Beyond with Joanna Davis-McElligatt
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT April 9 to June 11, 2025
Online | How have Black writers responded to (or ignored) Faulkner’s vision of the South? Uncover how three Black women—Toni Morrison...
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Groups+Workshops
The Love Story: From the Traditional to the Taboo with Sheila Kohler
5 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 31 to June 23, 2025
Online | How are the best love stories told? What makes a love story feel authentic and true to life? Delve into four novels that attempt...
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Groups+Workshops
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels with Shirley Tung
Once a week Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT March 29 to April 19, 2025
Online | Take a wild romp through fantastical lands filled with miniature people, giants, flying islands, mad scientists, and talking horses
