September 3, 2019
We were delighted to host an intimate evening with Salman Rushdie on the night of the release of Quichotte! Ayad Akhtar, Joan Allen and Aasif Mandvi joined Rushdie on stage to perform excerpts from the novel.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade on The Five Wounds with Alice McDermott
Lauded author Kirstin Valdez Quade joined National Book Award winner Alice McDermott (Charming... -
Fiction, Consciousness, and Dreams: Erik Hoel Launches The Revelations with Andre Dubus III
Erik Hoel’s path to fiction writing may seem a little unconventional. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from... -
NEA Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying and Ernest Gaines's Legacy
In this final NEA Big Read event, winners of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence came together to discuss the... -
Story/Teller: Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie with Kara Young and Mira Jacob
Whiting Award-winning author Kaitlyn Greenidge joined author Mira Jacob (Good Talk)... -
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye Launches The Vietri Project with Ruchika Tomar
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye and Ruchika Tomar, both 2015 Emerging Writer Fellows, reunited to celebrate... -
On Reading: Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus
We celebrated a new edition of Shirley Hazzard’s classic literary masterpiece The Transit of Venus... -
Literary Translation Clinics
Where Does Translation End and Co-Translation Begin?
Working in pairs. Hiring readers. Workshopping. Trusting editors. There are many ways to get a manuscript from a draft to a final translation -
Lisa Zeidner on Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction with Ron Charles
Lisa Zeidner joined Washington Post book critic Ron Charles in conversation on her... -
NEA Big Read: Ernest J. Gaines on Criminal Justice
In A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines wrote about an unfair and brutal American justice system—one... -
Hemingway, Gender and Identity
In a special event co-hosted by PBS, WNET, and The Center for Fiction, we welcomed filmmakers Ken Burns and... -
A Reading with the 2020 Emerging Writer Fellows
The Center for Fiction 2020 Emerging Writer Fellows came together to share their published writing and works in progress -
Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with David Ebershoff
We celebrated the launch of Imbolo Mbue’s highly anticipated second novel How Beautiful We Were -
Author/Editor: Ladee Hubbard on The Rib King with Patrik Henry Bass
The relationship between author and editor is different for every book. As part of our Author/Editor series, we got a glimpse... -
NEA Big Read: Story/Teller Invitation to Read A Lesson Before Dying
Award-winning author and The Center for Fiction Board member Jacqueline Woodson hosts this special on-demand... -
On America: Climate Writing with Elizabeth Kolbert, Madeleine Watts, and Leslie Jamison
Can great writing help us confront the global climate crisis before it’s too late? Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker...