Friday, August 4, 2023

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

Please read Chooey-Booey & Brown by Tejal Rao and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 83 of The Good Immigrant.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Tejal Rao

Tejal Rao is a critic at large. She joined The New York Times in 2016 as a reporter and columnist for The New York Times Magazine and became the paper’s first California restaurant critic in 2018. She started the newsletter The Veggie in 2021.

Ms. Rao was previously a restaurant critic at The Village Voice and Bloomberg News. She won a Vilcek Prize in creative promise and two James Beard Foundation awards for her restaurant criticism, and her work was anthologized in the 2018 and 2019 editions of “The Best American Food Writing.” She was born in London and lives in Los Angeles.

Friday, July 21, 2023

Tues, July 25 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

Please read and join us to discuss Sibling Rivalry by Michael Byers.

Find it on page 54 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Download a PDF at Sibling+Rivalry.

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Friday, July 7, 2023

July 11 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read and join us to discus On Lonliness by Fatimah Asghar.

Find it on page 81 of The Good Immigrant.

See these links for more on Asghar.

https://www.fatimahasghar.com/new-index

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/fatimah-asghar-poetry-collection-after

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Tues, June 20 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 37 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

Tues, June 6 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read After Migration: Once & Future Kings by Walé Oyéjidé and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 97 of The Good Immigrant.

Meet the author via a 5-minute TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXg3J1x4OY.

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Saturday, May 27, 2023

Another schedule update

Gaiman is out. We are back to alternating Short Stories and Essays.

Friday, May 19, 2023

Tues, May 23 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please read Neil Gaiman's Feminine Endings and his Observing the Formalities and join us for a discussion. Both are in his Trigger Warning book beginning on page 232.

Text is on line: https://www.tumblr.com/chevysk/109229540079/feminine-endings-by-neil-gaiman

Listen the Neil Gaiman reading Feminine Endings at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7urd9w.

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Basic Guidelines for Shared Inquiry

Read the selection carefully before participating in the discussion. This ensures that all participants are equally prepared to talk about the ideas in the work.
Most of us need to read short stories more than once.
Support your ideas with evidence from the text. This keeps the discussion focused on understanding the selection and enables the group to weigh textual support for different answers.
Discuss the ideas in the selection and try to understand them fully before exploring issues that go beyond the selection. Reflecting on the ideas in the text and the evidence to support them makes the exploration of related issues more productive.
Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. Directing your comments and questions to other group members, not always to the leader, will make the discussion livelier and more dynamic.
Expect the leader to only ask questions. Effective leaders help participants develop their own ideas, with everyone gaining a new understanding in the process. Participants should look to the leader for questions, not answers.