Upcoming Discussions
February 24th at 7:00 pm
Eve’s Diary and Extracts from Adam’s Diary. (1906)by Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s take on the battle of the sexes is funny and witty and brilliant as he writes once from Eve’s perspective and then follows-up from Adam’s. A sample observation from Eve, “He talks very little. Perhaps it is because he is not bright…”
Little Miss Sophie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1895)
A short story about an impoverished woman trying to do right by a former lover.
Sticks by George Saunders (1995)
Not so much a short story as it is flash fiction, “Sticks” is written from the perspective of a young man whose father has an unusual habit: dressing up a crucifix that’s built of out a metal pole in the yard. One of America’s greatest living short story writers, George Saunders explained: “For two years I’d been driving past a house like the one in the story, imagining the owner as a man more joyful and self-possessed and less self-conscious than myself. Then one day I got sick of him and invented his opposite, and there was the story.”
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Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (1856)
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell (1917)
Thank you, Ma’am by Langston Hughes (1958)
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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