2017 Schedule: Jan - May

Dec 27 @ 7:30 PM - Fischer vs. Spassky

Join us to discuss Fischer vs. Spassky by Lara Vapnyar.  Find it on page 131 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Read it on line at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/fischer-vs-spassky

Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

Dec 13 @ 7:30 PM: What Our Telescopes Couldn’t See

We next  discuss What Our Telescopes Couldn’t See by Pippa Goldschmidt.  Find it on page 35 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

 

Find it on line at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/what-our-telescopes-couldnt-see/?_r=0

 

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Nov 29 @ 7:30 PM: Wal-Mart Has Plantains

Join us to discuss Wal-Mart Has Plantains by Sefi Atta.  Find it on page 115 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

Nov 15 @ 7:30 PM: The Social Life of Gene

Join us to discuss The Social Life of Genes by David Dobbs.  Find it on page 19 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don’t just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics.

Find it on line:  https://psmag.com/the-social-life-of-genes-66f93f207143#.cfqxf2puj

Nov 1 @ 7:30 PM: Otravida, Otravez by Junot Diaz

Join us to discuss Otravida, Otravez by Junot Diaz.  Find it on page 97 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

Oct 18: The Great Forgetting by Nicholas Carr

Join us to discuss The Great Forgetting by Nicholas Carr.  Find it on page 8 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014
Find it on line at  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Sept 27: Grandmother’s Garden by Meena Alexander

Join us to discuss Grandmother’s Garden by Meena Alexander.  Find it on page 75 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Our host facility has been providing coffee, tea, and fresh baked cookies!

Sept 13 @ 7:30 PM - Mixed Up by Katherine Bagley

We next discuss Mixed Up by Katherine Bagley.  Find it on page 1 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2014

Find it on line athttp://www.audubon.org/magazine/climate-change-causing-some-mixed-wildlife

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Aug 30 @ 7:30 PM - The Bees, Part 1

Join us to discuss The Bees, Part 1 by Aleksandar Hermon.  Find it on page 55 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.

Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

Andy Thangasamy, who may join us some day, wonders if this is what we really do. 
We just discuss.  We do not act out!

Aug 16 @ 7:30 PM: Mind vs. Machine by Brian Christian

Join us to discuss Mind vs. Machine by Brian Christian.  Find it on page 289 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012

Find it on line at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/mind-vs-machine/308386/

This last essay of the book addressing what is unique about humans nicely pairs with the first essay (The Teeming Metropolis of You) that said 90% of the cells in our body are not human cells.

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Aug 2 @ 7:30 PM: Mother the Big by Porochista Khakpour

Join us to discuss Mother the Big by Porochista Khakpour. 
Find it on page 31 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
Our host facility has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!
Learn more about us at http://greatbookssedenver.blogspot.com/

July 19 @ 7:30 PM: The Crypto-Currency by Joshua Davis

Join us to discuss The Crypto-Currency by Joshua Davis.  Find it on page 276 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012 

Find it on line at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-currency
 
HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Tues, July 5 @ 7:30 PM: Absence by Daniel Alarcón

Join us to discuss Absence by Daniel Alarcón.  Find it on page 15 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, published by The Great Books Foundation.
HighPointe has been providing coffee and fresh baked cookies!

Tues, June 21 @ 7:30 PM - Dream Machine by Rivka Galchen

Join us to discuss Dream Machine by Rivka Galchen on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 PM.  Find it on page 258 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012

Find it on line at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/02/dream-machine

Tues, June 7 @ 7:30 PM - HighPointe

We next discuss Letting Go to America on Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30 PM at HighPointe.

Find it on page 3 of Immigrant Voices - 21st Century Stories, our new collection from the Great Books Foundation.

Tues, May 17 @7:30 PM - Mad Science

Please join us to discuss Mad Science by Mark McClusky.  Find it on page 245 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012

Find it on line at http://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff_myhrvold/

Schedule

Tues, Apr 26 @ 7:30 PM - The Hare's Mask

We next discuss The Hare's Mask by Mark Slouka.  Find it on page 323 of Best American Short Stories – 2011. 

I have not fould a copy of this on-line.

HighPointe has been graciously providing us with coffee and fresh baked cookies.

Updated Schedule - New Collections

Tues, Apr 12 @ 7:30 PM: Test Tube Burgers

Join us to discuss Test Tube Burgers by Michael Specter.  Find it on page 229 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012
Find it on line at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/23/test-tube-burgers

HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Tues, Mar 29 @ 7:30 PM - Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders

Join us to discuss Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders.  Find it on page 300 of Best American Short Stories – 2011
On Line: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/escape-from-spiderhead

HighPointe has been providing us with coffee and fresh baked cookies.

Tues, Mar 15 @ 7:30 PM: The City Solution

Join us to discuss The City Solution by Robert Kunzig.  Find it on page 217 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012
Find it on line at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/city-solutions/kunzig-text
 
HighPointe has been graciously baking us cookies and brewing coffee.

Tues, Mar 1 @ 7:30 PM - The Call of Blood by Jess Row

We next discuss The Call of Blood by Jess Row on Tuesday, Mar 1 at 7:30 PM at HighPointe

Find it on page 276 of Best American Short Stories – 2011 

A PDF copy of The Call of Blood is available from Harvard Review.

Our host facility has been providing us with coffee and fresh baked cookies.

Attached is the updated schedule that show us finishing both our Short Story and our Science/Nature collections. 

Please think about what we should read next.  The Great American series books have worked well.  We could continue with them.  We could return to our Great Books roots.  See http://store.greatbooks.org/colleges-book-groups.html

 

Tues, Feb 16 @ 7:30 PM: Ill Wind by David Kirby

Join us to discuss Ill Wind by David Kirby on Tuesday, Feb 16 at 7:30 PM at HighPointe.


Ill Wind is on page 206 of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - 2012. 
Click on this link for a PDF of the article.
http://www.astralgia.com/editing/clips/chinapollution2011.pdf

Tues, Jan 19 @ 7:30 PM: To the Measures Fall by Richard Powers

Please join us to discuss To the Measures Fall by Richard Powers.  Find it on page 262 of Best American Short Stories – 2011

On Line: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/18/to-the-measures-fall

				To the Measures Fall - The New Yorker Short story about an American woman’s lifelong re-readings of an obscure English novel she discovered in the Costwolds while on a junior year abroad.
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HighPointe has been providing us with coffee and fresh baked cookies.

Jan 5 @ 7:30 PM: Crush Point by John Seabrook

Join us for coffee, cookies and a discussion of Crush Point by John Seabrook.  Find it on page 189 of Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2012 edited by Dan Ariely.

On-line, find it at www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/07/crush-point

Our host facility, HighPointe Assisted Living has been graciously providing us with freshly baked cookies and coffee in their private dining room!