On Sale: November 18, 2025 A monk leaves the monastery to search for his teenage brother, who has run away from home in the middle of a high school cross-country race. Alternating between each bro...

Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...

Recommending some lovely and strange translated novels published in the last couple years.

Fiction can introduce us to foreign cities, complicate our relationship to our own hometown, or make us long for places we’ve never seen. Why does it matter where a story takes place? Could Kazuo ...

Time to cozy up with any number of these great reads.

This workshop is for writers of all forms and genres looking for feedback on their works-in-progress. Whether you’re revising a novel, short story, essay, collection of poems, or memoir, bring 10-...

Re-engaging with your creative process after time away from your project, or from consistent hours at the desk, can be difficult. Whatever the reason may be—a new job, new kid, illness, lack of in...

33 likes, 2 comments - higleyalex on September 12, 2023: "I’m so excited to be teaching a class called Starting Again: Reconnecting with Your Writing w/ ..."

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