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This event is in the past.It took place on February 10, 2026 at The Center for Fiction.

Cristina Rivera Garza on Autobiography of Cotton with Rita Indiana 1
Literature Talk
Cristina Rivera Garza on Autobiography of Cotton with Rita Indiana 2
Cristina Rivera Garza on Autobiography of Cotton with Rita Indiana 3
Cristina Rivera Garza on Autobiography of Cotton with Rita Indiana 4
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Cristina Rivera Garza on Autobiography of Cotton with Rita Indiana

Fort Greene

Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza unveils her "new kind of border novel," weaving family memory with the 1934 cotton workers' strike and borderland ecologies. Rita Indiana joins for a conversation on how literature excavates silenced histories.

Literary conversation
Mexican-American history
Pulitzer-winning author
Border narratives

Tips

📖"new kind of border novel" (book description)
arrive early to browse the bookstore and cafe
✍️member access includes private writers' rooms upstairs

The Center for Fiction

15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA

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