The Reality Tests by Joshua Roebke - Rescheduled: Tues Dec 17 @ 7:30 PM Eloise May Library

Delayed two weeks due to snow:

Read The Reality Tests by Joshua Roebke and and join us for a discussion in Meeting Room A at the Eloise May Library - Parker Rd at Florida.

This work can be found in The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009, page 229. Find it on-line at: The RealityTests

The Reality Tests by Joshua Roebke - Tues, Dec 3 @ 7:30 PM - Eloise May Library

Read The Reality Tests by Joshua Roebke and and join us for a discussion in Meeting Room A at the Eloise May Library - Parker Rd at Florida.

This work can be found in The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009, page 229. Find it on-line at: The RealityTests

Eloise May Library - Florida & Parker Road

Bulldog by Arthur Miller - Tues Nov 19 @ 7:30 PM - Eloise May Library

Read Bulldog by Arthur Miller and join us for a discussion in Meeting Room A of the Eloise May Library - Parker Rd at Florida.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 250. Online: http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2004/dec/tellingtales/bulldog.html.

The Last Man I Killed by David Rachel: Tues Nov 5 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read The Last Man I Killed by David Rachel and join us for a discussion on Tuesday, Nov 5 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac.

Find it in The Best American Mystery Stories - 2005 on page 203. 

Contagious Cancer on Tuesday, Oct 22 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room, Whole Foods - Tamarac.

Read Contagious Cancer by David Quammen and join us for a discussion on Tuesday, Oct 22 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room, Whole Foods - Tamarac.

Find it in the Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2009 on page 209.  It is also available on line at http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/contagious-cancer/?single=1

Nachman from Los Angeles - Tues Oct 8 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Nachman from Los Angeles by Leonard Michaels and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 230. Find it on-line at newyorker: Nachman from Los Angeles.

Officers Weep by Daniel Orozco - Tues, Sept 24 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Officers Weep by Daniel Orozco and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Mystery Stores - 2005, page 194.

Pop Psychology by by Virginia Postrel - Tues, Sept 10 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Pop Psychology by by Virginia Postrel and join us for a discussion on Tuesday, Sept 10 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room on the west side of Whole Foods - Tamarac.

Find it on page 203 in the Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009.  Read it on line at

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/pop-psychology/307135/?single_page=true

 

Does this article challenge the idea of an Invisible Hand?

Watermelon Days by Tom McNeal - Tues, Aug 27 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Watermelon Days by Tom McNeal and join us for a discussion on Tues, Aug 27 @ 7:30 PM in the Community Room at Whole Foods - Tamarac.

The work is on page 209 of Best American Short Stories – 2002 edited by Sue Miller.  It is also available on-line at: Watermelon Days

Public Trouble by Kent Nelson - Tues, Aug 13 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Public Trouble by Kent Nelson and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Mystery Stories - 2005, page 184.

Read this online for free by registering for a MyJSTOR account. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4614748?uid=3739568&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101984574111

How We Evolve by Benjamin Phelan - Tues, July 30 - 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read How We Evolve by Benjamin Phelan and join us for a discussion on Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room at Whole Foods, Tamarac.
The article begins on page 192 of The Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2009. Find it on-line: How We Evolve 

Billy Goats - Tues, July 16 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Billy Goats by Jill McCorkle and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.
This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 199. Read it online by searching books.google.com/books?isbn=1565123972.

Schedule: July - Oct 2013

Sault Ste. Marie - Mystery - Tuesday, July 2, 2013 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Sault Ste. Marie by David Means and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Mystery Stories - 2005, page 173.

"To Take Wildness in Hand" by Michelle Nijhuis - Tues, June 18 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read To Take Wildness in Hand by Michelle Nijhuis and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009, page 181. 
 Find it on-line at:  Wildness in Hand.
View an interview with one of the scientists at: David Printiss.

"In Case We’re Separated" by Alice Mattison - Tues, 6/4/13 @ 7:30 PM

Read In Case We’re Separated by Alice Mattison and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 187.

Case Closed by Lou Manfredo - Tues, May 21 @ 7:30 PM - Whole Foods-Tamarac

Read Case Closed by Lou Manfredo and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.

This work can be found in The Best American Mystery Stories - 2005, page 152. Find it on-line at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/119230575/Brooklyn-Noir#ch12

Digging by Beth Lordan on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 PM

Join us as we discuss Digging by Beth Lordan on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room at Whole Foods - Tamarac.  This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 173. Find it on-line at http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2001/09/lordan.htm.

Schedule Update

     Community Room at Whole Foods - Tamarac

Date	Title	Author	Collection	Page
23 Apr	Digging	Beth Lordan	Short Stories 2002	173
30 Apr	Back to the Future	J. Madeleine Nash	Science/Nature 2009	169
21 May	Case Closed	Lou Manfredo	Mysteries 2005	152
4 Jun	In Case We’re Separated	Alice Mattison	Short Stories 2002	187
18 Jun	To Take Wildness in Hand	Michelle Nijhuis	Science/Nature 2009	181
2 Jul	Sault Ste. Marie	David Means	Mysteries 2005	173
16 Jul	Billy Goats	Jill McCorkle	Short Stories 2002	199
30 Jul	How We Evolve	Benjamin Phelan	Science/Nature 2009	192

Back to the Future on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 PM

Read Back to the Future by J. Madeleine Nash and join us for a discussion on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 PM in the Community room at Whole Foods, Tamarac.  

Find it in The Best American Science & Nature Writing – 2009 edited by Elizabeth Kolbert.

On-line, read it at: back-to-the-future/print_view.

See a video about this essay: Big Horn Basin Wyoming : PETM - Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum

"When All this Was Bay Ridge" on Tuesday, Mar 12 at 7:30 PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

"Who owns memory?"

We next discuss When All this Was Bay Ridge by Tim McLoughlin on Tuesday, Mar 12 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room of Whole Foods - Tamarac.

This work can be found in The American Mystery Stories – 2005, page 141

Nobody’s Business - Tues, Feb 26 @ 7:30PM - Whole Foods - Tamarac

Read Nobody’s Business by Jhumpa Lahiri and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods - Tamarac.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 136.

I've not found an on-line copy.  What The NewYorker has posted under this title is not this story.

Minds of Their Own - Tuesday, Feb 12 @ 7:30 PM

Read Minds of Their Own by Virginia Morrell and join us on Tuesday, Feb 12 at 7:30 PM for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods. 

This work can be found in The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009, page 156. Read it on-line at Animals are smarter than you think.

PS: I'll watch a recorded version of the State of the Union after the discussion.

The Shoeshine Man's Regrets

Weather permitting, we will discuss The Shoeshine Man's Regrets by  Laura Lippman on Tuesday, Jan 29 at 7:30PM in the Community Room - Whole Foods Tamarac.

Find it on page 129 of the Best American Mystery Stories - 2005.  You can read it on-line at a Russian site that might be violating copyright laws, beginning at the bottom of this page Lippman's Stories from Hardly New Her.

Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma

Read Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.


Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 7:30p to 9:00p 

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 116, or on-line at:   Zilkowski’s Theorem