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First Novel Friday: The High Heaven, If the Dead Belong Here, and This Is the Only Kingdom

On the first Friday of the month, we celebrate and launch a selection of the best debut novels published today. The evening kicks off with a happy...

The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2024–2025 Emerging Writer Fellows came together to conclude their cohort year and share their published...

We welcomed Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of Real Life and Filthy Animals, back...

Acclaimed author and professor Urmila Seshagiri joined us to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Life of Violet...

We welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son) to The Center for Fiction this fall...

Tony Award-winning playwright, composer, and writer, David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish), joined us...

Internationally bestselling artist and author Oliver Jeffers joined us for a conversation about his timely new picture book...

October’s First Novel Friday debuts explore creative fulfillment within racialized spaces, the resilience inherent in immigrant labor, and the...

Kiran Desai joined us for an evening at The Center for Fiction to celebrate the launch of her luminous, Booker Prize-longlisted...

Thomas Schlesser joined us for an evening, celebrating the release of his internationally bestselling novel Mona’s Eyes