Interviews | The Center for Fiction

Motherhood and the Birth of a Book: A Q&A with Courtney Zoffness

In her spirited, lyrical debut essay collection, Spilt Milk, Courtney Zoffness (a 2013 Emerging Writer Fellow at The...

Mysterious, heart-wrenching, frequently funny, and ultimately inspiring, Chris Whitaker’s We Begin at the End tells...

A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt, Victoria Gosling’s Before the Ruins weaves a suspenseful...

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of editor and writer Daniel Menaker. A few years ago, the writer Dawn Raffel sat down with Menaker...

An international bestseller, shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, Charlotte Wood’s latest novel...

Lawrence Block is surely one of the best-known, most successful, and beloved crime writers in the world. Ask any crime writer, (as I was recently)...

While setting is one of the basic elements of a novel, great writers raise that requirement to another level, allowing readers to feel immersed...

In our fraught present moment, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick remains as pertinent as ever. This fall’s reading group is your...

As a commonwealth, Puerto Rico has a strange, strained relationship with the U.S., and Nuyoricans (Puerto Ricans who were born or lived in New...

Led by NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff, our Neapolitan Novels reading group will explore what makes Ferrante’s tetralogy so powerful and why...