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Critically acclaimed author Nicole Krauss spoke to Julie Orringer (The Flight Portfolio) on what it was like to write To Be a Man, her first short story collection. The stories explore what it means to be in a couple during these turbulent and unpredictable times.

Kia Corthron, who won our 2016 First Novel Prize for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, talks about writing dialect, creating empathy in her readers, and how her playwriting experience influenced her book.

In our latest episode of Fiction Talks, Jonathan Santlofer, a widely acclaimed author and beloved teacher at The Center, talks to Noreen Tomassi, our executive director, about his new memoir THE WIDOWER'S NOTEBOOK. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY hails the book as “a quiet stunner of a memoir… the book never loses momentum, thanks in large part to his vivid writing. This is a tender, moving, and resonant account of how life continues whether one wants it to or not.”

Center for Fiction Executive Director Noreen Tomassi talks to Bonnie Nadzam about her book, LIONS. Nadzam was awarded the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for her debut novel, LAMB. She will be teaching an online writing class this summer on creativity.

Center for Fiction Executive Director Noreen Tomassi talks to Julie Lekstrom Himes about her debut novel, Mikhail and Margarita, winner of the 2017 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

For our first episode of Fiction Talks, Paul La Farge discusses his novel THE NIGHT OCEAN with Center for Fiction Executive Director Noreen Tomassi.