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The Center for Fiction

Phone: 
(212) 755-6710
Type: Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue, Writing Center

The Center for Fiction is the only nonprofit in the United States solely dedicated to celebrating fiction. It hosts literary events, including panels, lectures, and conversations between authors. The space also features workspace, grants, and classes to support emerging writers, reading groups on classic and contemporary authors, and programs to help get kids reading. The Center for Fiction also operates an independent fiction bookstore and a circulating library section.

Address: 17 East 47 Street
New York, NY 10017
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From newly established bookstores such as McNally Jackson Books in SoHo to long-time forums such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church on the Lower East Side, T Cooper, author, most recently, of The Beaufort Diaries, visits his favorite places to research, revise, and read in New York City.

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by Kevin Nance

May/June 2013

Reagan Arthur, the new publisher of Little, Brown, discusses her new role and the health of the company she now leads through these uncertain times in publishing.

by Aaron Hamburger

May/June 2013

Fiction writer Aaron Hamburger got more than he bargained for when he signed up for a class in food writing. Instead of simply learning about a new genre, he also learned some valuable lessons about the one he'd been practicing for years.

by Melissa Faliveno

March/April 2013

Melissa Levin of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council discusses how the nonprofit organization, which was displaced both by the September 11 attacks and more recently Hurricane Sandy, continues to provide office and studio space to writers and artists in lower Manhattan. 

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