Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh with Joanna Biggs
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 16 to August 6, 2026
In Person | Discover why this dazzling verse novel was a formative influence on Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Susan B
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Groups+Workshops
E. M. Forster’s Summer of Love with Pam Newton
3 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 8 to August 26, 2026
In Person | Unpack the nuances of Forster’s lyrical prose and explore the social tensions that intersected with love and romance in...
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Groups+Workshops
Agatha Christie's Poirot and Marple with Mary Anna Evans
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 3 to September 14, 2026
Online | Read Agatha Christie’s first and final Poirot and Marple novels to see how two of fiction’s most enduring outsiders observe...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Henry James: Volume II with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 5 to August 26, 2026
Online | Read four of James’s most enigmatic short works as a way of tracing his growing fascination with ambiguity, secrecy, and consciousness—and...
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Book Recs
Dreams of Escape
A grieving young woman in the 1980s Midwest longs to escape her life and complete her dead uncle’s unfinished computer game; another young woman...
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Events
First Novel Friday: A Little Bit Bad, Mad Eden, and New Skin
Friday, 6:00 pm EDT June 5, 2026
This month, we are pleased to welcome debut novelists Cassandra Neyenesch (A Little Bit Bad), Morgan Thomas...
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Groups+Workshops
Conversations with Sally Rooney with Chris Holmes
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT May 7 to June 18, 2026
Dissect the allure of Rooney’s fiction, where intense intimacy, vulnerability, and tenderness intersect with keen social observation, exploring...
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Book Recs
Crimes of the Heart
There is a bit of tugging at the heartstrings this week. We celebrate the happy return of a prize-winning Scottish novelist with a family story...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Valeria Luiselli on Beginning Middle End
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 28, 2026
Acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive, The Story of My Teeth) joins us at The Center to...
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Book Recs
Taking Place
This week, we have two novels featured in upcoming events at The Center: a gorgeous and poignant story about sisters in Brazil that will be part...
