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Constant Cravings: Seven Essential Books About Addiction
by Jennifer Haigh My new book, Heat and Light, is a novel about the fracking boom in Pennsylvania. In a deeper way, it’s also a story about addiction, that perverse human compulsion to poison...
The Book That Made Me A Reader: Elizabeth Nunez
On Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice. I grew up in colonial Trinidad, my education similar to that of a British public school, excellent, but clearly intended to reinforce the superiority of ...
How Walter White Can Make You A Better Writer
by Martha Southgate I’m proud to admit that I was and am an obsessive fan of Breaking Bad. When Walt, Jesse and all their friends left us on that Sunday night three years ago, I was left bere...
Inventing Time by Laura van den Berg
Time frames our experience in the world, yet time is never stable: it is always moving. This morning, I walked my dog from Carroll Gardens to the Red Hook waterfront and back. We were out for an ...
Three Dimensional Writing by Alison Gaylin
I love a good suspense story—the type of dark, twisting tale that keeps me on the edge of my seat, turning pages, barely able to wait for what happens next. That’s the effect you strive for...
Shelf Life by Sunil Yapa
We asked the author of the new novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist to show us a section of his bookshelf. Here he discusses the books that helped him write his novel. And don’t miss...
The Book That Made Me a Reader Elizabeth McKenzie on John Lennon
Two of the first books that made me a reader were In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon. This was when I was about ten. I already perceived that the Beatles were great humor...
How to Get Out of the Slush Pile
by Dawn Raffel Here’s a literary puzzle: Inboxes all over the world are filled to virtually bursting, yet editors and agents frequently lament (in private) that rather than facing an embarr...
Playing With Status by Judy Sternlight
Judy Sternlight’s workshop at the Center, IMPROV FOR WRITERS, will begin on Feb. 17th. For more information and to sign up, click here . As an independent developmental editor who specializes ...
How to Start Your Novel by David Gordon
DAVID GORDON’S workshop at the Center, INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL, will begin on Feb. 9th. For more information and to sign up, click here . “Finally, out of sheer rage, I’ve begun my book�...
Playing, Reading, and Snacking
Classic meets contemporary in our upcoming Notes on Fiction concert, The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Violin-viola duo (and fiction lovers) andPlay has curated a program featuring sounds that the...
Viet Thanh Nguyen Talks to Noreen Tomassi
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Here, he talks to our Executive Director, Noreen Tomassi, about developing the narrator�...
Shelf Life by Gordon McAlpine
We asked the acclaimed author of the new novel Woman with a Blue Pencil (which was just nominated for an Edgar for Best Paperback Original!) to show us a section of his bookshelf. Gordon ...
Dialogue or Conversation? by Jason Starr
Jason Starr’s Crime Fiction Academy Workshop will begin on Feb. 1st. For more information and to sign up, click here . I learned a lot about crime fiction writing in an odd place—the theater...
The Book That Made Me A Reader James Hannaham: Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
When I read The Phantom Tollbooth, at approximately age nine or so, it had some kind of bizarre cathartic effect on me. By that time I had probably started experimenting with puns, doubtless had ...
Sheridan Hay talks MOBY-DICK
Think a book published in 1851 isn’t relevant to your life? Melville’s iconic novel is more than what it seems - take it from author Sheridan Hay. Moby-Dick is the novel waiting to be rea...
Announcing the Short List for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Announcing the Short List for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize : Our panel of distinguished judges have selected seven debut novels for our 2015 First Novel Prize short list! The w...
Who Should Be Kicked Out of the Canon?
Who Should Be Kicked Out of the Canon? : We’d like to hear your responses/opinions on the #literarycanon!
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu - Books - Review - New York Times
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu - Books - Review - New York Times : This upcoming Fall’s Big Read book is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. ...
Looking for literary stimulation on those cool Fall nights? Our...
Looking for literary stimulation on those cool Fall nights? Our Fall 2015 Readings Groups have been announced! For more information and to sign up, visit our website . Herman Melville’s Moby-...