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Story/Teller Arts: Aleshea Harris with Nissy Aya
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome one of the most innovative, uncompromising, boundary-breaking dramatists of today, Aleshea...
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Elizabeth Nunez on Now Lila Knows with Crystal Bobb-Semple
Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, Now Lila Knows, is urgent, timely, and necessary. The novel follows newly hired professor...
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Felicia Berliner on Shmutz with Abby Stein
Jewish Book Council and The Neighborhood joined The Center for Fiction for a special literary program featuring Felicia Berliner...
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On America: Claude Johnson on The Black Fives with Laura Washington
As the 2022 NBA playoffs ramped up, historian Claude Johnson joined The Center for Fiction for a rich conversation on an unsung...
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NEA Big Read: Exploring the Imaginative and Moral Narratives in Beloved
The Center for Black Literature, in collaboration with The Center for Fiction’s NEA Big Read initiative for Toni Morrison’s classic novel...
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NEA Big Read: Our Friend Toni: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Erroll McDonald on Toni Morrison's Legacy
It has been almost three years since the world lost the trailblazing, intrepid writer and scholar, Toni Morrison
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Cleyvis Natera on Neruda on the Park with Naima Coster
When demolition begins on a nearby tenement, the Guerreros are forced to reimagine their life in Nothar Park, the predominantly Dominican part...
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Crime/Scene: Dervla McTiernan and Don Winslow on The Murder Rule and City on Fire
We were thrilled to welcome internationally bestselling crime writers Dervla McTiernan and Don Winslow to our stage
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Julia Glass on Vigil Harbor with David Ebershoff
Set ten years in the future, Julia Glass’s Vigil Harbor is a gripping mystery and drama set against the quaint...
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On America: 50 Years of Title IX with Sherry Boschert, Anucha Browne, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe
June 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation which prohibited sex-based discrimination in federally funded education