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This event is in the past.It took place on May 13, 2026 at The Center for Fiction.

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Literature Talk
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The Center for Fiction Presents Emma Copley Eisenberg on Fat Swim with Tembe Denton-Hurst

Fort Greene

"Fat Swim" confronts the "fatphobic hellscape of fiction" with intensely human, loosely linked stories about bodies and desire in Philadelphia. Eisenberg and Tembe Denton-Hurst unpack how writers and readers can embrace the body in all its forms.

Literary fiction
Author conversation
Queer themes
Body positivity

Tips

đź“–"the fatphobic hellscape of fiction" (Electric Literature)
🖨️try the short story dispenser for free random tales

The Center for Fiction

15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA

$10

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