Friday, May 20, 2022

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

Please join us to discuss Black Box by Jennifer Egan.  

Find it on page 379 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.

Read it online at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box.

Contact me for the Zoom link.



Friday, May 6, 2022

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

Join us to discuss Black Corfu by Karen Russell.  

Find it on page 230 of The Best American Short Stories - 2019

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Friday, April 22, 2022

Tues, April 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss two Neil Gaiman short stories: Adventure Story and Orange.

Find them on page 71 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.

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Friday, April 8, 2022

Tues April 12 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Join us to discuss Letter of Apology by Maria Riva.

In Russia under the watchful eye of the KGB:
Don't think
If you think, don’t speak.
If you think and speak, don’t write.
If you think, speak and write, don’t sign.
If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised.

Find it on page 215 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019

The story references a short video: Hedgehog in the fog with english voices

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Friday, March 18, 2022

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

Join us to discuss E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops.

Find it on page 341 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation

Online at https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

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Friday, March 4, 2022

Tues Mar 8 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss two short stories by Neil Gaiman: Down to a Sunless Sea (page 33) and My Last Landlady (page 67). 

Find them in Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.

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Friday, February 18, 2022

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

Please join us to discuss The Plan by Sigrid Nunez.

Find it on page 197 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.

Contact me (Mike Levin) for the Zoom link.

Another updated schedule - now meeting 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month.