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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Mariana Enriquez on A Sunny Place for Shady People
The Center for Fiction welcomed author Mariana Enriquez (Our Share of Night) in celebration of her new fiction collection, A...
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Videos
On America: The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
For the third event in our series on housing, land, and the policies that shape our country, we turn our attention to the fraught history of Black...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Happiness: A Rite and a Book by Choreographer Edisa Weeks
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT November 6, 2024
Join us for a multidisciplinary, interactive exploration of happiness featuring prose, poetry, video, and movement curated by Brooklyn-based choreographer...
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Fall Feast
We begin the month of October with five award-winning authors. A Booker Prize winner gives us the full life of a queer, biracial British man
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The Center for Fiction Presents Jamie Quatro on Two-Step Devil with Sloane Crosley
We welcomed Jamie Quatro, dubbed by the New Yorker as the “fearless” author of I Want to Show You More...
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The Center for Fiction Presents Deborah Levy on The Position of Spoons with Katie Kitamura
Deborah Levy joined us for a celebration of her collected writing, The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
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Events
Biblio Bacchanal: The Search for America’s Best Whiskey
Saturday, 5:00 pm EDT - 7:00 pm EDT November 2, 2024
Calling all whiskey lovers! Join us for an exploration of American whiskey with Colin Spoelman, the Co-Founder of Kings County...
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Events
Biblio Bacchanal: New York City in a Cocktail
Saturday, 5:00 pm EDT - 7:00 pm EDT December 14, 2024
Join us for a special evening at The Center for Fiction as we discuss—and drink!—history, with a selection of four cocktails curated by Amanda...
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Look Closer
The writers in this selection are all ambitious witnesses, contemplating the universe and their characters’ places within
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Celebrating James Baldwin’s Centennial: Invoking the Women in Baldwin’s Fiction
We celebrated 100 years of James Baldwin at the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival with a conversation between five exciting, contemporary...