Tues, Dec 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

 Please read and join us to discuss In the Event by Meng Jin.

Find it on page 168 of The best American Short Stories - 2020.

It is online at https://www.threepennyreview.com/in-the-event/ 

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Tues, Dec 12 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read and join us for a discussion of Blond Girls in Cheongsams by Jenny Zhang.

Find it on page 142 of The Good Immigrant.

Online: https://www.racked.com/2016/3/17/11246698/shoplifting-malls-nineties-cultural-appropriation

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Tues, Nov 21 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

 

Please read and join us for a discussion of This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill.

Find it on page 133 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

On line it is at https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/this-is-pleasure

Accoring to this review  https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/this-is-pleasure-by-mary-gaitskill-review-metoo-story-nuance-empathy-363073  This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill is a #MeToo story full of nuance and empathy.  It is set in an eerie borderland between pleasure and pain, intimacy and exploitation, a truth and a lie.

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Tues, Nov 7 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom - Shithole Nation

Read Shithole Nation by Jim St. Germain and join is for a discussion.

Find it on page 123 of The Good Immigrant.  

Watch a related video by Germain at  https://www.facebook.com/Breakout2day/videos/1066702870098883/

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Tues, Oct 24 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

Please read Something Street by Carolyn Ferrell and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 109 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Read it on line at https://www.storymagazine.org/something-street/

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Tues Oct 10 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read and join us to discuss Her Name Was India by K. Mallikarjuna.

Read it at https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/her-name-was-india-essay.

Find it on page 116 of The Good Immigrant – Edited by N. Shukla & C. Suleyman.

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Sept 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read or listen to Halloween by Marian Crotty and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 94 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Listen to Marian Crotty reading her story at https://lithub.com/marian-crotty-performs-her-short-story-halloween/.She staert reading at about 2 min 30 seconds.

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Tues, Sept 12 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read and come to discuss Luck of the Irish by Maeve Higgins.

Find it on page 104 of The Good Immigrant.

Read it online at https://progressive.org/magazine/the-luck-of-the-irish/

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Maeve Anna Higgins is a comedian from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland and is based in New York.

 

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

Read The Nanny by Emma Cline and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 75 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020

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Emma Cline

 

Tues, Aut 8 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Chooey-Booey & Brown by Tejal Rao and join us for a discussion.   

Find it on page 83 of The Good Immigrant.

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Tejal Rao

Tejal Rao is a critic at large. She joined The New York Times in 2016 as a reporter and columnist for The New York Times Magazine and became the paper’s first California restaurant critic in 2018. She started the newsletter The Veggie in 2021.

Ms. Rao was previously a restaurant critic at The Village Voice and Bloomberg News. She won a Vilcek Prize in creative promise and two James Beard Foundation awards for her restaurant criticism, and her work was anthologized in the 2018 and 2019 editions of “The Best American Food Writing.” She was born in London and lives in Los Angeles.

Tues, July 25 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

Please read and join us to discuss Sibling Rivalry by Michael Byers.  

Find it on page 54 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Download a PDF at Sibling+Rivalry.

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July 11 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read and join us to discus On Lonliness by Fatimah Asghar.

Find it on page 81 of The Good Immigrant.

See these links for more on Asghar.

https://www.fatimahasghar.com/new-index

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/fatimah-asghar-poetry-collection-after

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Tues, June 20 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 37 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

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Tues, June 6 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read After Migration: Once & Future Kings by Walé Oyéjidé and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 97 of The Good Immigrant.

Meet the author via a 5-minute TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXg3J1x4OY.

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Another schedule update

 Gaiman is out.  We are back to alternating Short Stories and Essays.

Tues, May 23 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Neil Gaiman's Feminine Endings and his Observing the Formalities and join us for a discussion.  Both are in his Trigger Warning book beginning on page 232.

Text is on line: https://www.tumblr.com/chevysk/109229540079/feminine-endings-by-neil-gaiman 

Listen the Neil Gaiman reading Feminine Endings at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7urd9w. 

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Our latest schedule:

April 25 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read or listen to How Not to Be by Priya Minhas and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 52 of The Good Immigrant or listen to the author reading it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLwBv_WMwfM.  

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Tues, April 11 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read and join us to discuss Neil Gaiman's Return of the Thin White Duke.

Find it on page 210 of Trigger Warning (by Neil Gaiman).

It is also on line at:

https://www.neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/The_Return_of_the_Thin_White_Duke 

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

 Please read Godmother Tea by Selena Anderson and join us to discuss the story.

Find it on page 1 of The Best American Short Stories of 2020.

Or read it online at: 

https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-106/godmother-tea

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

Please join us to discuss  On the Blackness of the Panther by Teju Cole.

Find it on page 36 of The Good Immigrant edited by Shukla & Suleyman.

On line it is at: https://level.medium.com/on-the-blackness-of-the-panther-f76d771b0e80

This includes the text and a 20 minute machine reading audio.

Here is our Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87543556803?pwd=cHRRK3NTTWFCZTh2SUQrSHZaTEVpdz09

Tues, Feb 21 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

Please join us to discuss Neil Gaman's Dr Who story: Nothing O'Clock.

Find it  on page 175 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances by Neil Gaiman.

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Tues, Jeb 7 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom - Schedule Update

 Join us to discuss Omakase by Weike Wang.

Find it on page 330 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019

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Here is our updated schedule:

Tues, Jan 24 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Join us to discuss Rahawa Haile’s Sidra (in 12 Movements).

Find it on page 28 of The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America.

Here is our latest, corrected schedule:

Gaiman stories: Tues, Jan10 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss two Neil Gaiman short stories:

1. "And Weep, Like Alexander" -- page 169
2. Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale -- page 206

Both are in Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances – Neil Gaiman

Topic: Michael Levin's Great Books Zoom Meeting

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