Schedule through December 2015

Schedule through the end of 2015

Tues, Sept 8 @ 7:30 PM: Property by Elizabeth McCracken

Join Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books to discuss Property by Elizabeth McCracken.  

Find it on page 193 of The Best American Short Stories - 2011.

Tues, Aug 25 @ 7:30 PM: The Feedback Loop by Thomas Goetz

Join us to discuss The Feedback Loop by Thomas Goetz.
Read this on-line at http://www.wired.com/2011/06/ff_feedbackloop/.
Find it on page 131 of The Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2012.

Tues, Aug 11 @ 7:30 PM - Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart by Rebecca Makkai

Join us to discuss Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart by Rebecca Makkai. 

Find it on page 179 of The Best American Short Stories - 2011.

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Tues, July 28 @ 7:30 PM: Methods of Wallace J Nichols

We next discuss The Touchy-Feely (but Totally Scientific!) Methods of Wallace J. Nichols by Michael Roberts on Tuesday, July 28 at 7:30 PM at HighPointe.

Author Michael Roberts does not mention Moby Dick, but there is some connection to:

        "Call me Ishmael. … Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can
… almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."

Find the reading in our Science/Nature book on page 119, or read it on-line at The Touchy-Feely (But Totally Scientific!) Methods Of Wallace J. Nichols

Tues, July 14 @ 7:30 PM: The Dungeon Master by Sam Lipsyte

Join us to discuss The Dungeon Master by Sam Lipsyte.  Find it on page 163 of The Best American Short Stories - 2011.
Read this on-line at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/the-dungeon-master.