Please read The Last Days of Rodney by Tracey Rose Peyton and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 140 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021
Contact me for the Zoom link.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
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.
Please read The Last Days of Rodney by Tracey Rose Peyton and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 140 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021
Contact me for the Zoom link.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
Please read “Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Unidentified Artist, circa Sixteenth Century)” by Jane Pek and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 128 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.
Contact me for the Zoom link.
Read it online at:
About Jane Pek
Hi! I was born and grew up in Singapore, and now live in New
York. I have a BA in history from Yale University, a JD from the New York
University School of Law, and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
My short fiction has appeared twice in The Best American
Short Stories. My debut novel, The Verifiers, was published in 2022. My second
novel, The Rivals, was published in December 2024.
During the day, and sometimes night, I work as a lawyer at a
global investment company.
I enjoy picking up different martial arts (to date:
taekwondo, capoeira and Krav Maga), reading coming-of-age novels, watching
contemporary theatre, and cycling around the city in search of superlative
almond croissants.
Please read Good Boy by Eloghosa Osunde and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 116 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.
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Please read Clementine, Carmelita, Dog by David Means and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 86 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.
Listen to the story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_JH1nG2tM.
‘Here I should stress that dog memory is not at all like human memory, and that human memory, from a dog’s point of view, would seem strange, clunky, unnatural and deceptive.’
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Please read Switzerland by Nicole Krauss and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 72 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021
If you have access to the New Yorker, read it at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/switzerland
Nicole Krauss reads part of her story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgzLxRDFro
Please read Playing Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 64 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.
Via The New Yorker you can read it or listen to it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain
Contact me for the Zoom link.