Sam Lipsyte will kick off the Center for Fiction’s fall season on September 10 with Jess Walter
The Center for Fiction
17 East 47th St.
September 10 – December 16, free – $10
212-755-6710
www.centerforfiction.org
The Center for Fiction, previously known as the Mercantile Library, has been celebrating the written word since 1820. The nonprofit organization, which tends to operate somewhat under the radar, regularly hosts wonderful events in its intimate reading room, most of them free, others ranging between $8 and $10 (or a book donation to the center’s Books for NYC Schools program), all requiring advance RSVP. The group’s fall Meet the Author series gets under way September 10 as Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter contemplate the comic novel, followed on September 22 with “Conjugal Lit,” a panel discussion with Lore Segal, Gary Giddins, Brenda Wineapple, and Stephen Koch, moderated by James Marcus. Among the other featured events are “A Literary Friendship” with Matthew Sharpe and Linh Dinh on October 7, Francine Prose on October 13, Eileen Myles on October 28, S. J. Rozan on November 9, Jennifer Egan on November 10, Louis Begley on November 10, and Oscar Hijuelos and Carlos Eire on the Cuba-Miami Connection on December 16.