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The International Library and BAM Present Clarice Lispector from Page to Screen
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 11, 2026
Join us for an evening devoted to the work and life of Clarice Lispector in collaboration with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Center... -
The Center for Fiction Presents Jeff Boyd on Hard Times with Xochitl Gonzalez
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 24, 2026
Join us for an evening with Jeff Boyd as he discusses his gripping new novel, Hard Times, a moving and unflinching portrait... -
The Center for Fiction Presents Hannah Lillith Assadi on Paradiso 17 with Colum McCann
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 17, 2026
Join us for an evening with Hannah Lillith Assadi as she discusses her intimate, sweeping new novel Paradiso 17 with...
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Mar 12
The Future Is Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Literary World
7:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction
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Mar 17
The Center for Fiction Presents Hannah Lillith Assadi on Paradiso 17 with Colum McCann
7:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction
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Mar 24
The Center for Fiction Presents Jeff Boyd on Hard Times with Xochitl Gonzalez
7:00 pm EDT at The Center for Fiction
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In Short: Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls… with Sullivan Summer
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 12, 2026
In Person | Celebrate Shange’s groundbreaking work, which gives voice to Black women’s experiences of struggle, resilience, and... -
In Short: Exploring the World of Hans Christian Andersen with Amanda Hollander
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 2 to June 18, 2026
In Person | A new four-part In Short series tracing how Andersen’s fairy tales turn fantasy into social critique—probing power... -
Skin Deep: Beauty, Horror, and the Gothic Tradition with Amanda Lehr
4 Sessions Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT April 4 to June 6, 2026
In Person | Interrogate the pursuit of beauty across Gothic fiction, where surface perfection masks decay, obsession, and violence
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Through It All
The five books this week remind us how, despite life’s obstacles, we carry on. Whether through a memoir composed of staccato... -
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Going to Great Lengths
One does not have to write a long book to be worthy of acclaim. But readers increasingly seek out books of a certain length—whether... -
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Place Settings
Sometimes I read based on the setting—location and circumstance can be very persuasive. In the four novels below you’ll find... -
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(Self) Discovery
This week’s selection provides much for readers to discover. There are two novels marked by comic genius–one set in the Middle... -
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Internal Affairs
Five very different novels address the various ways fictional characters tackle the challenges before them—and change both... -
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Transitions
We are delighted to launch two of the books below at The Center—one about a freelancing poet questioning his life, the other... -
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It’s a Mad, Mad World
The stories in this selection offer a bit of unhinged pleasure as well as discomfort. There is madness in the form of a Scandinavian... -
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A Closer Look
Soul-searching runs through the work of this week’s five authors, each seeking answers to profound questions about how to live -
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The Human Condition
The characters gathered here are a group of eccentrics: maladjusted, often at a crossroads, skeptical about life, unsure of their... -
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What You Read in 2025
Our annual bestsellers list closes out this year’s recommendations with fifteen titles reflecting a wide range of reading tastes—from... -
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What to Buy?
Here is a selection of gift-y books for the holidays, including new and old classics: boxed sets of favorite authors in editions... -
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First Light
This week, our Bookstore’s Inventory Manager, Leah Bronstein, shares some of her favorite 2025 books for young readers—spanning... -
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The Last Word
We begin to wind down the year with some excellent late-season publications to be added to your TBR pile or gifted for the holidays -
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Preheat Your Ovens
‘Tis the season to cook and bake. This fall has a particularly splendid crop of new cookbooks, and we’ve selected eight to highlight -
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On the Edge
Four taut novels will keep you on the edge of your seat, plus a posthumous memoir from a favorite rock star -
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Across the Ages
This week’s grouping features a multigenerational slate of authors, ranging from their 20s to their 80s—one debut showing... -
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Hot and Cold
As the brisk weather has arrived and the days grow shorter, this collection of novels runs both hot and cold—not only in their... -
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Interiors
Four works of fiction are marked by their authors’ uncanny abilities to dig into the minds of their characters -
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Escape!
Horror in Utah; time travel in the Swiss mountains; escape into solitude in Ireland; and escapist fiction about a New England... -
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Of Kith and Kin
Aliens and cults; adultery; short fiction from a Big Sky Country master; murder in a Puerto Rican community; and a memoir from...
