Tues, Oct 21 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Little Beast by C. Pam Zhang and join us for a discussion.

 Find it on page 240 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021

Read it on line at https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2020/09/21/little-beast/

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Tues, Oct 7 2025 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read  Biology by Kevin Wilson and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 227 of The best American Short Stories - 2021.

Download a copy of the story from https://thesouthernreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/04_56.1_KevinWilson.pdf.

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Bio

Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018), and five novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection, Now is Not the Time to Panic (Ecco, 2022) and Run for the Hills (Ecco, 2025).  His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012.  He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts.  He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of the South.

Tuesday, Sept 23 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Palaver by Bryan Washington and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 215 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Tues, Sept 9 at 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read You Are My Dear Friend by Madhuri Vijay and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 195 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

Read it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/you-are-my-dear-friend

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Madhuri Vijay

Tues, Aug 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT]a via Zoom

Please read Haguillory by Stephanie Soileau and join us for a discussion.

Find it on pate 183 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Stephanie Soileau

Tues, Aug 12, 2025 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

Please read A Way With Bea by  Shanteka Sigers and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 175 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Schedule:

Shanteka Sigers

Tues, July 22 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read (or listen to) Love Letter by George Saunders and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page  166 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

Listen to Stephen Colbert read it at https://player.vimeo.com/video/769521406?h=78f50c979f.

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