We read and discuss short, cheap and nearly great stories and essays. We are now meeting via Zoom. Previously we met in the Bistro @ HighPointe Assisted Living [NE Corner – Hampden Ave & I-25] 6383 East Girard Place, Denver, CO 80222. This group is free and open to anyone willing to read the material before the discussion. For more information, call Mike Levin 303 514-5463 or email Levin.DePrenger@gmail.com.
Read it online at https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/they-told-us-not-to-say-this/.
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Please join us to discuss Wrong Object by Mona Simpson.
Find it on page 310 of The Best American Short Stories - 1019.
Read it online at https://harpers.org/archive/2018/11/wrong-object-mona-simpson/
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Please join us to discuss How to Write Iranian-American, or The Last Essay by Porochista Khakpour.
Find it on page 3 in The Good Immigrant edited by Shukla & Suleyman.
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Please join us to discuss The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler.
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Please join us to discuss Click Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman.
Find it on page 150 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.
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Please join us to discuss Jim Shepard's "Our Day of Grace."
Find it on page 290 of the Best American Short Stories - 2019.
In an interview Jim Shepard described Our Day of Grace as "...an epistolary story set at the very end of the American Civil War, involving an exchange of letters between a young Southern woman and her beau [Lucy and William], as well as another southern woman [Hattie] writing to a husband [C.W.] who never responds."
The dates and locations of the letters relate to this battle where the South lost over 6200 men: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/franklin.
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Jim Shepard
Please join us to discuss Margaret Atwood's Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet and a selection from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
Find them on page 449 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.
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Please join us to discuss Jerusalem by Neil Gaiman.
Find it on page 142 of Gaiman's Trigger Warning.
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Jerusalem syndrome is real. See https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/jerusalem-syndrome/2ECCD42AFB48D3C7AB8A5FEB8CB756D9
Please join us to discuss Natural Disasters by Alexis Schaitkin.
Find it on page 271 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.
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Please join us to discuss Jon by George Saunders.
Please join us to discuss Neil Gaiman's Man who forgot Ray Bradbury.
Find it on page 135 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.
Listen to it being read at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdkE6DquWg
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Join us to discuss Audition by Said Sayrafiezadeh. Find it on page 255 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.
Listen to the author read the story at https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-authors-voice/said-sayrafiezadeh-reads-audition
Chore Boy is mentioned in this story.
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Schedule update, again:
Find it on page 379 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.
Read it online at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box.
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Join us to discuss Black Corfu by Karen Russell.
Find it on page 230 of The Best American Short Stories - 2019
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Follow-on Schedule:
Please join us to discuss two Neil Gaiman short stories: Adventure Story and Orange.
Find them on page 71 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.
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Join us to discuss Letter of Apology by Maria Riva.
In Russia under the watchful eye of the KGB:Don't think
If you think, don’t speak.
If you think and speak, don’t write.
If you think, speak and write, don’t sign.If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.
Find it on page 215 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019
The story references a short video: Hedgehog in the fog with english voices
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Join us to discuss E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops.
Find it on page 341 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation
Online at https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
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Please join us to discuss two short stories by Neil Gaiman: Down to a Sunless Sea (page 33) and My Last Landlady (page 67).
Find them in Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.
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Please join us to discuss The Plan by Sigrid Nunez.
Find it on page 197 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.
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Another updated schedule - now meeting 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month.
Please join us to discuss selections from the novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Find it on page 317 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.
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Please join us to discuss Anyone Can Do It by Manuel Munoz.
Find it on page 182 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.
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