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Upcoming Discussions

July 28th at 7:00 pm

July Reads Selections

A Favorable Favor by Brendan Dubois

The Disappearance of Daniel Question by Barrie Roberts

Artistic License by Edward Marston

Possibilities by Bill Pronzi

Previous Discussions – 2021

June 

A Father & His Sons by Aesop (1484)

The Father by Guy de Maupassant (1880s) – de Maupassant is considered the father of the short story.

The Prodigal Father by Jack London (1912)

The Semplica-Girl Diaries by George Saunders (2012)

May

“My Dear You” by Rachel Khong (Tin House, May 2017)

“A Flawless Silence” by Yiyun Li (The New Yorker, April 2018)

 “Sweetheart Sorrow” by David Hoon Kim (The New Yorker, June 2007)

Oral History Selection: June Tiang

April

Hanan al-Shaykh’s “God, It’s as Though You’re Sewing a Dress For a Flea,” tr. Randa Jarrar (Lebanon)

Basma al-Nsour’s “Disappointments (and a Few Clarifications),”tr. Andrew Leber (Jordan) 

 “The Abandoned Village” by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright

 “Rhythmic Exercise” by Mohamed Makhzangi, translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh

Optional Reads:

Ruminations: Warm Memories of Government Cheese by Tracey Lynn Lloyd

 13 Haikus for Anyone Who’s Ever Eaten a Grilled Cheese by Andrew Peña

March

Weaving (Poem) by Lucy Larcom (c. 1862)

The Giant Wistaria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)

Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (1926)

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)

The White Umbrella by Gish Jen (2019

February

Eve’s Diary and Extracts from Adam’s Diary. (1906)by Mark Twain

Little Miss Sophie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1895)

Sticks by George Saunders (1995)

January

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (1856)

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell (1917)

Thank you, Ma’am by Langston Hughes (1958)

Previous Discussions – 2020

December

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
you can access a digital copy or visit the Ground Floor Checkout Desk to pick up a copy after November 15th

November

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.Henry 

 Three Thanksgiving Kisses by Edward Payson Roe 

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln 

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln formally established Thanksgiving as America’s holiday to recognize the bounties of “fruitful fields and healthful skies” and to help heal the wounds of the nation.

October

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov

September 

Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

Cathedral by Raymond Carver – http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf

August

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

July 

The Story of B24 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
access at https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/uploads/3/7/3/8/37380505/1899_march_round_the_fire_x_–_the_story_of_b_24.pdf