Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Anatomy of Desire with Lila Azam Zanganeh
Five Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 2 to September 8, 2024
Journey through 900 years of French desire, from courtly love to contemporary shame. Explore desire as both psychic energy and pure libido, delving...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: A Group Discussion of Thomas Wolfe’s "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" with Richie Narvaez
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 6, 2024
Explore the mythos of Brooklyn through Thomas Wolfe’s 1935 short story set entirely in the subway, delving into the borough’s mystery and message.
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Love in Raymond Carver's "Beginners" with Matilda Lin Berke
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 16, 2024
Discover Carver’s vulnerable and contemporary exploration of love in his original manuscript of “Beginners,” exploring how the...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams": Dream Analysis, Mechanophobia, and the God of Fear with Jacqueline Ahl
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT July 11, 2024
Plath’s enigmatic powerhouse of weird blurs allegory and reality. Delve into its themes of fear, mechanophobia, and psychoanalysis, pondering...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: A Group Discussion of "Sleep" by Haruki Murakami with Thais Vitorelli
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT June 11, 2024
Embark on an immersive exploration of consciousness. Unravel the depths of Murakami’s storytelling, pondering themes of the human mind...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Spring Is in the Air
Two story collections, witty psychological suspense, and corruption on Park Avenue make up the fiction offerings this week
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Julia Alvarez on The Cemetery of Untold Stories with Edwidge Danticat
Julia Alvarez, literary icon and author of In the Time of the Butterflies, joined The Center for Fiction to discuss...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Shifting Sands
Five very special novels by women bring Women’s History Month to a close: an unlikely friendship in the Orkney Islands; a writer reflecting...
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Events
You're Invited: An Anniversary Party Celebrating 5 Years in Brooklyn
Saturday, 11:00 am EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 27, 2024
If this were a birthday party, we’d toast to The Center for Fiction turning 203 years old as a literary organization (founded in 1821 as...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Presents Tessa Fontaine on The Red Grove with Julia Phillips
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 15, 2024
Acclaimed author Tessa Fontaine joins The Center for Fiction to celebrate her debut novel The Red Grove
