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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Tues, July 8 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

Please read In This Sort of World, the Asshole Wins by Christa Romanosky and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 154 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021

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

Please read The Last Days of Rodney by Tracey Rose Peyton and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 140 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021

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Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King 

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

Please read “Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Unidentified Artist, circa Sixteenth Century)” by Jane Pek and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 128 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Read it online at: 

https://lithub.com/portrait-of-two-young-ladies-in-white-and-green-robes-unidentified-artist-circa-sixteenth-century/

Jane Pek

About Jane Pek

Hi! I was born and grew up in Singapore, and now live in New York. I have a BA in history from Yale University, a JD from the New York University School of Law, and an MFA from Brooklyn College.

My short fiction has appeared twice in The Best American Short Stories. My debut novel, The Verifiers, was published in 2022. My second novel, The Rivals, was published in December 2024.

During the day, and sometimes night, I work as a lawyer at a global investment company.

I enjoy picking up different martial arts (to date: taekwondo, capoeira and Krav Maga), reading coming-of-age novels, watching contemporary theatre, and cycling around the city in search of superlative almond croissants.

Tues, May 27 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Good Boy by Eloghosa Osunde and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 116 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Paradise - May 13 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Paradise By Yxta Maya Murray and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 101 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021

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

Please read Clementine, Carmelita, Dog by David Means and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 86 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

Listen to the story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_JH1nG2tM. 

‘Here I should stress that dog memory is not at all like human memory, and that human memory, from a dog’s point of view, would seem strange, clunky, unnatural and deceptive.’

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Switzerland - Tues, Apr 8 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

Please read Switzerland by Nicole Krauss and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 72 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021 

If you have access to the New Yorker, read it at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/switzerland

Nicole Krauss reads part of her story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgzLxRDFro

Tues, March 25 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Playing Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 64 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

Via The New Yorker you can read it or listen to it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain 

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Escape from the Dysphesiac People - Tues, March 11, 2025 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Escape from the Dysphesiac People by Brandon Hobson and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 53 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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The Rest of Us - Tues, feb 25 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read The Rest of Us by Jenzo DuQue and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 39 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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Jenzo DuQue was born into a Colombian community in Chicago and is based in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College, where he served as an editor for The Brooklyn Review. An inaugural Periplus Fellow & 2021 Shenandoah Editorial Fellow, Jenzo’s work has found homes in Narrative, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Jenzo’s writing has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2021 and forthcoming in Best Microfiction 2022.

Our Children - Tues, Feb 11, 2025 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Our Children by Vanessa Cuti and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 28 of The Best American Short Stories - 2021.

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To Buffalo Eastbound - Jan 7 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read To Buffalo Eastbound by Gabriel Bump and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 1 of  The Best American Short Stories – 2021

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