Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: December 2022

Friday, December 16, 2022

Tues, Dec 20 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

Please join us to discuss They Told Us Not To Say This by Jenn Alandy Trahan.

Find it on page 323 of The Best American Short Stories - 2019.

Read it online at https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/they-told-us-not-to-say-this/.

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Friday, December 2, 2022

Folks,

Please join us to discuss Swimmer by Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Find it on page 15 of The Good Immigrant.

Dennis-Benn is one of the authors you hear in this 7-minute audio.

In 'The Good Immigrant,' New Americans Grapple With Their Polarized Country

Co-editor Chimene Suleyman says she doesn't want to wait for other people to decide who's a good immigrant. She ...

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