Friday, August 19, 2022

Tues, Aug 23 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom + Schedule Update

Please join us to discuss Margaret Atwood's Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet and a selection from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Find them on page 449 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.

Contact me for the Zoom link.



Friday, August 5, 2022

Tues Aug 9 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss Jerusalem by Neil Gaiman.

Find it on page 142 of Gaiman's Trigger Warning.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

Jerusalem syndrome is real.  See https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/jerusalem-syndrome/2ECCD42AFB48D3C7AB8A5FEB8CB756D9



 

Friday, July 22, 2022

Tuesday, July 26 @ 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss Natural Disasters by Alexis Schaitkin.

Find it on page 271 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.

Contact me for the Zoom link.



Friday, July 8, 2022

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

Please join us to discuss Jon by George Saunders.  

Find it on page 419 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision.

Read it on line, [if the New Yorker will let you] at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/jon.

Contact me for the Zoom link.

An updated schedule is attached.  As we finish some of our collections we will start using PDF copies of stories.  

Book of Martha by Octavia Butler is a good follow-on to our utopian/dystopian collection.  I've added it on Oct 11, 2022 and pushed the rest of the schedule one meeting later.





Friday, June 24, 2022

Tues, June 28 at 7:30 PM [MT] via Zoom

Please join us to discuss Neil Gaiman's Man who forgot Ray Bradbury.

Find it on page 135 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances.

Listen to it being read at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdkE6DquWg 

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Friday, June 3, 2022

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

 

Join us to discuss Audition by Said Sayrafiezadeh.  Find it on page 255 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019.

Listen to the author read the story at https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-authors-voice/said-sayrafiezadeh-reads-audition 

Chore Boy is mentioned in this story.

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Schedule update, again: 



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.