Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
John Banville and His Many Worlds of Narrative with William Mottolese
Five Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 4 to April 25, 2024
Dive into John Banville’s rich language, complex plots, and dark humor from his earliest canonical novels to his most recent work, and explore...
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Groups+Workshops
Tolstoy's "Master and Man" and a Cocktail with Pam Newton
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 11, 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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Groups+Workshops
Beyond Cli-Fi with Outlandish: Black and Indigenous Nature Lit with Benje Williams
Four Sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT January 10 to April 17, 2024
Despite the profound presence of the natural world in Black lives throughout time, authors of color are not commonly associated with nature or place-based writing
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Groups+Workshops
Under the Influence: Reading and Journaling Teju Cole with Elizabeth Howard
Five Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 9 to March 12, 2024
Teju Cole’s Open City is a peripatetic, meditative novel about reflection and processing. Participants in this reading group will be...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world
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VideosThe International Library
The International Library and Celebrate Mexico Now: Stitches, Secrets, Shame with Jazmina Barrera, Valeria Luiselli, and Christina MacSweeney
Stitches, secrets, shame: Mexican writer Jazmina Barrera’s first novel, Cross-Stitch, translated into English by Christina...
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Katherine Vaz on Above the Salt
The Center for Fiction welcomed Katherine Vaz to celebrate her latest novel. Above the Salt follows two Portuguese refugees...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Natural Selection
Let’s be thankful this November for these five extraordinary writers with new works of fiction. We have a master of prose returning with a novel...
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Lisa Gornick on Ana Turns with Joan Silber
We welcomed Lisa Gornick (The Peacock Feast, Louisa Meets Bear) to The Center for Fiction to discuss Ana Turns...
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Videos
The Center for Fiction Presents Ed Park on Same Bed Different Dreams with Hua Hsu
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome Ed Park, author of the novel Personal Days and founding editor of The...
