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In Short: Grace Paley’s “An Interest in Life” with Mike Levine

Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 12, 2024

In Person | “Grace Paley’s work makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant,” Angela Carter wrote in The London Review of Books

6 Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 30, 2024 to January 27, 2025

Online | In this group, participants will examine moments of change that are essential to the forward movement of a story and so important...

8 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 30 to November 18, 2024

Registration for this group is closed.

3 Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT September 29 to November 17, 2024

Online | In this group, we will look at three classic horror stories set in New York City across three decades (’60s, ’70s...

10 Sessions 5:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT September 17 to June 17, 2024

Online | In Within a Budding Grove, Marcel Proust continues his illustration of the sensual and mysterious nature of time that...

4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT September 11 to October 2, 2024

Online | When Henry James wrote the preface to his revision of The Portrait of a Lady (first published in 1881 and revised for...

10 Sessions Tuesdays, 5:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDT September 10, 2024 to June 24, 2025

Online | “An open book is time regained,” wrote Bernard de Fallois, a legendary French editor and Proustian who, upon dying in 2018...

This week you’ll find two books that are timely in their ability to capture the zeitgeist of now. Others use time to tell a story backward and...

José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night was one of the most brilliantly bizarre novels of “The Boom” of Latin...

The Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize was awarded to Joseph Earl Thomas for his debut novel God Bless You, Otis...