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 two essays in The Good Immigrant and join us for a discussion.
244 Million by Mona Chalabi is just one page. It has you make a paper airplane while reviewing statistics on world migration. (Page 298)
How to Center Your Own Story by Jade Chang was written just before Trump's first term. Many of her observations apply today. (Pages 301-313)
Please read The Special World by Tiphanie Yanique and join us for a discussion.
This is the last selection in The Best American Short Stories -2020. Find it on page 329.
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Here is our latest schedule:
Please read Return to Macondo by Susanne de Arellano and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 287 of The Good Immigrant.
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Please read Kennedy by Kevin Wilson and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 308 of The Best American Short Stories – 2020.
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Please read Skittles by Fatima Farheen Mirza and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 276 of The Good Immigrant.
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Please read Enlightenment by William Pei Shih and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 289 of The Best American Short Stories – 2020
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Please read No Es Suficiente by Dani Fernandez and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 266 of The Good Immigrant.
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Read Octopus VII by Anna Reeser and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 273 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.
Listen to the author read [most] of her story at https://lithub.com/anna-reeser-reads-her-short-story-octopus-vii/.
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Please read Juana Azurduy v Christopher Columbus by A .& S. Villar Rojas and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 248 of The Good Immigrant.
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Please read MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail and join us for a duscussion.
Find it at https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf
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Please read The Hands of Dirty Children by Alejandro Puyana and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 260 of The Best American Short Stories -2020.
Read it on-line at https://electricliterature.com/the-hands-of-dirty-children-by-alejandro-puyana/#article-main-148400.
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Please read Dispatches from the Language Wars by Daniel José Older and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 241 of The Good Immigrant.
Read the essay at https://time.com/5528434/daniel-jose-older-spanish/
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Please read The Nine-Tailed Fox Explains by Jane Pek and join us for a discussion.
Fine it on page 249 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.
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Please read Tour Diary by Basim Usmani and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 223 of The Good Immigrant.
Meet the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOFfk1vKOGY
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Please read and join us for a discussion of Howl Palace by Leigh Newman.
Find it on page 232 of The Best American Short Stories – 2020
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Leigh Newman reads this story on Spotify.
Please read On Being Kim Kardashian by Chimene Suleyman and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 210 of The Good Immigrant.
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Please read Liberté by Scott Nadelson and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 222 of The Best American Short Stories – 2020.
Listen to the author read Liberté https://lithub.com/scott-nadelson-reads-his-short-story-liberte/
The story imagines the relation between two people: Jewish artist Louise Nevelson and French antisemite Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
See: https://nmwa.org/art/artists/louise-nevelson/
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line
Please read An American, Told by Jean Hannah Edelstein and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 197 of The Good Immigrant.
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Please read It's Not You by Elizabeth McCracken and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 209 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.
Listen to it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tzEBFQTDng
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Please read The Long Answer by Yann Demange and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 178 of The Good Immigrant.
Read it online at https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/feb/23/yann-demange-perpetual-outsider-identity-finding-my-tribe.
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Please read Rubberdust by Sara Thankam Mathews and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 202 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.
Read it on line at:
https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-janfeb/selections/sarah-thankam-mathews-342846/
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Please read Your Father’s Country by Alexander Chee and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 169 of The Good Immigrant.
See Alexander Chee reading from the start of his essay at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUv1PLETg4A
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Updated Schedule:
Please read The Children By Andrea Lee and join us for a discussion.
Find it on page 188 of The Best American Short Stories – 2020.
Read it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/10/the-children
Learn about the author at https://www.andreanlee.com/about.
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