Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver

Friday, November 17, 2023

Tues, Nov 21 @ 7:30 PM [MT] Via Zoom

Please read and join us for a discussion of This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill.

Find it on page 133 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

On line it is at https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/this-is-pleasure

Accoring to this review https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/this-is-pleasure-by-mary-gaitskill-review-metoo-story-nuance-empathy-363073 This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill is a #MeToo story full of nuance and empathy. It is set in an eerie borderland between pleasure and pain, intimacy and exploitation, a truth and a lie.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Friday, November 3, 2023

Tues, Nov 7 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom - Shithole Nation

Read Shithole Nation by Jim St. Germain and join is for a discussion.

Find it on page 123 of The Good Immigrant.

Watch a related video by Germain at https://www.facebook.com/Breakout2day/videos/1066702870098883/

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Friday, October 20, 2023

Tues, Oct 24 @ 7:30 PM [MT]

Please read Something Street by Carolyn Ferrell and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 109 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Read it on line at https://www.storymagazine.org/something-street/

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Friday, October 6, 2023

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

Please read and join us to discuss Her Name Was India by K. Mallikarjuna.

Read it at https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/her-name-was-india-essay.

Find it on page 116 of The Good Immigrant – Edited by N. Shukla & C. Suleyman.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Sept 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Read or listen to Halloween by Marian Crotty and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 94 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

Listen to Marian Crotty reading her story at https://lithub.com/marian-crotty-performs-her-short-story-halloween/.She staert reading at about 2 min 30 seconds.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Friday, September 8, 2023

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

Please read and come to discuss Luck of the Irish by Maeve Higgins.

Find it on page 104 of The Good Immigrant.

Read it online at https://progressive.org/magazine/the-luck-of-the-irish/

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Maeve Anna Higgins is a comedian from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland and is based in New York.

Friday, August 18, 2023

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

Read The Nanny by Emma Cline and join us for a discussion.

Find it on page 75 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020

Contact me for the Zoom Link.

Emma Cline

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.