The Shoeshine Man's Regrets

Weather permitting, we will discuss The Shoeshine Man's Regrets by  Laura Lippman on Tuesday, Jan 29 at 7:30PM in the Community Room - Whole Foods Tamarac.

Find it on page 129 of the Best American Mystery Stories - 2005.  You can read it on-line at a Russian site that might be violating copyright laws, beginning at the bottom of this page Lippman's Stories from Hardly New Her.

Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma

Read Zilkowski’s Theorem by Karl Iagnemma and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.


Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 7:30p to 9:00p 

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stores - 2002, page 116, or on-line at:   Zilkowski’s Theorem

Wasteland by Frederick Kaufman

While Whole Foods is selling Xmas trees in our usual meeting room, we are meeting Tuesday, Dec 18 at 7:30 PM in Room B at the Eloise May Library:   1471 South Parker Road, Denver, CO 80247, the NW corner of Florida & S Parker Road:  http://goo.gl/maps/BzziH.

We are discussing Wasteland by Frederick Kaufman.  Read it on line at  http://billtotten.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/wasteland or find it in The Best American Science and Nature Writing - 2009 on page 135.

 

From Wasteland:  "When I first set off on the trail of waste from the sewer to wherever it finally ended up, no matter how close or far away, I had believed I was Kurtz heading into the heart of darkness; but somewhere along the way I had morphed into Woodward and Bernstein, following the money."

Schedule (Dec 18 @ Eloise May Library)

Granting of permission by the Arapahoe Library District to use library facilities does not constitute endorsement by the Library District Staff or Board of Trustees.

Mystery: Until Gwen by Dennis Lehane

We next discuss Until Gwen on Tuesday, Nov 13 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room at Whole Foods - Tamarac.

Find the work in the Best American Mystery Stories - 2005 on page 113.
Read it on-line at:  Until Gwen

The Heifer by Melissa Hardy

Read "The Heifer" by Melissa Hardy and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.  We discuss this at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stories - 2002 on page 97.

Some questions for discussion:

• Would Aina have been happy had she stayed in Finland?
• Why does the author reflect Genesis 12 with:
  However, the idea of leaving her family and her village and everything that was familiar to her … moving to Canada and marrying Uwe Pahakka filled her brain to bursting.
  

Einstein & the Atom Bomb

Read "Chain Reaction" by Walter Isaacson and join us for a discussion Tuesday Oct 16 in the Whole Foods Tamarac Community Room.

This work can be found Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009 on page 129.  Or read it at: chain-reaction-from-einstein-to-the-atomic-bomb.  Also read Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, Einstein's letter.