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

Wasteland by Frederick Kaufman

While Whole Foods is selling Xmas trees in our usual meeting room, we are meeting Tuesday, Dec 18 at 7:30 PM in Room B at the Eloise May Library:   1471 South Parker Road, Denver, CO 80247, the NW corner of Florida & S Parker Road:  http://goo.gl/maps/BzziH.

We are discussing Wasteland by Frederick Kaufman.  Read it on line at  http://billtotten.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/wasteland or find it in The Best American Science and Nature Writing - 2009 on page 135.

 

From Wasteland:  "When I first set off on the trail of waste from the sewer to wherever it finally ended up, no matter how close or far away, I had believed I was Kurtz heading into the heart of darkness; but somewhere along the way I had morphed into Woodward and Bernstein, following the money."