Please join us via Zoom to discuss Telemachus by Jim Shepard.
Find it on page 232 of the Best American Short Stories 2017.
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09#success
We read and discuss short, cheap and nearly great stories. We are meeting via Zoom. 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@yahoo.com.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
Zoom discussion - Tues, Oct 27 @ 7:30 PM (MT)
Please join us to discuss Utopia. We have selections from Thomas More and a poem.
Find both starting on page 15 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09#su
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Utopia by
Wislawa Szymborska
Island where all becomes clear.
Solid ground beneath your feet.
The only roads are those that offer access.
Bushes bend beneath
the weight of proofs.
The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here
with branches disentangled since time immemorial.
The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple,
sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.
The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:
the Valley of Obviously.
If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.
Echoes stir unsummoned
and eagerly explain all the secrets of the worlds.
On the right a cave where Meaning lies.
On the left the
Truth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.
Unshakable Confidence towers over the valley.
Its peak offers an excellent view of the Essence of Things.
For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,
and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches
turn without exception to the sea.
As if all you can do here is leave
and plunge, never to return, into the depths.
Into unfathomable life.
Friday, October 9, 2020
Zoom discussion: Tues, Oct 13 @ 7:30 PM, (MT)
Please join us to discuss Novostroika by Maria Reva.
Find it on page 219 of The Best American Short Stories - 2017.
On line: Fiction: Novostroïka
Here is the Zoom link:
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Meeting ID: 897 2673 2176
Password: books
Maria Reva has this story as the first chapter in her new book:
Friday, September 25, 2020
Wednesday, Sept 30 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom
With a debate on Tuesday, we are meeting on Wednesday to discuss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Find it on page one of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.
Here is the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09
Meeting ID: 897 2673 2176
Password: books
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Schedule Update (29 Sept meeting moved to Wednesday 30 Sept)
Beginning Imperfect Ideal next meeting.
Friday, September 11, 2020
Tues, Sept 15 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom
Join us to discuss Last Day on Earth by Eric Puchner.
Find it on page 202 of The Best American Short Stories - 2017
Zoom Link:
Zoom link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09
Password: books
Imagine what it might be like for a boy, one who tragically idolizes his father, to accompany his mother to the pound to have two dogs she could not care for put down. The father had left for a younger woman and left his aging hunting dogs behind.
Friday, August 28, 2020
Tues, Sept 1 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom
Join us to discuss Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream by Kathryn Joyce.
Is it possible to overcome the
dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within
Find it on page 253 of The Best Science & Nature Writing - 2017.
On line read it is at:
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/park-rangers/
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