Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Broken Bindings: On Grieving the Living with Diane Zinna (January 2024)
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT January 15 to February 5, 2024
Through writing exercises and workshops, grieve those who are still alive but no longer connected to us—the broken bindings of friendships...
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Groups+Workshops
The Scene and the Summary: Writing Effective Scenes in Memoir and Personal Essay with David McLoghlin
Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 11 to February 29, 2024
Explore how and when to use scenes—which imitate real time—and summaries—which compress time—and other fundamentals of craft.
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Groups+Workshops
Everyone's Not a Critic: The Art of Literary Criticism with Yahdon Israel (in-person)
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 9 to February 13, 2024
Learn about the principles and practices of writing literary criticism, the role it plays in contextualizing fiction in the world, and its importance...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Short Fiction: Where to Begin with Amy Silverberg (January 2024)
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT January 8 to January 29, 2024
Examine how other authors have approached their short stories and discover how to use these strategies to help craft your own fiction.
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This week bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein guest-edits the newsletter to share some of her favorite books for young readers from 2023
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Groups+Workshops
Tolstoy's "Master and Man" and a Cocktail with Pam Newton
Monday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 5, 2024
Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” tells the tale of a landowner and a peasant becoming lost in a brutal snowstorm, exploring themes of human goodness...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
May We Recommend...
My esteemed colleagues at The Center for Fiction are avid and passionate readers. In the Bookstore we get to recommend titles to customers all...
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Fiction, Essays & More
An Interview with Esther Yi, 2023 First Novel Prize Finalist for Y/N
Esther Yi, author of Y/N, corresponded with Ceara Hennessey in celebration of being shortlisted for the 2023 First Novel Prize
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Cultural Concoctions
Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody
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Fiction, Essays & More
An Interview with Tyriek White, 2023 First Novel Prize Finalist for We Are a Haunting
Tyriek White, author of We Are a Haunting, spoke with Celeste Kaufman in celebration of being shortlisted for the 2023 First Novel Prize
