We are currently discussing contemporary short stories from the collection You've Got to Read This, Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard.
All are welcome to attend and participate in any session; you do not need to commit to weekly attendance.
The following shows the upcoming discussion schedule:
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Date |
Short Story |
Author |
Introduced By |
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March 14 |
A Mother's Tale |
James Agee |
Annie Dillard |
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March 21 |
Guy de Maupassant |
Isaac Babel |
Francine Prose |
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March 28 |
Sonny's Blues |
James Baldwin |
Kenneth A. McClane |
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April 4 |
The School |
Donald Barthelme |
T. Coraghessan Boyle |
|
April 11 |
The Aleph |
Jorge Luis Borges |
Oscar Hijuelos |
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April 18 |
A Day in the Open |
Jane Bowles |
Joy Williams |
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April 25 |
A Distant Episode |
Paul Bowles |
John L'Heureux |
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May 2 |
The Star Café |
Mary Caponegro |
John Hawkes |
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May 9 |
Reflections |
Angela Carter |
Robert Coover |
|
May 16 |
Cathedral |
Raymond Carver |
Tobias Wolff |
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May 23 |
Goodbye, My Brother |
John Cheever |
Allan Gurganus |
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May 30 |
Gooseberries |
Anton Chekhov |
Eudora Welty |
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June 6 |
A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
John Irving |
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June 13 |
Pie Dance |
Molly Giles |
Amy Tan |
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June 20 |
Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases |
Lars Gustafsson |
Charles Baxter |
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June 27 |
The Interview |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Jane Smiley |
|
July 3 (Thursday) |
The Dead |
James Joyce |
Mary Gordon |
|
July 11 |
In the Penal Colony |
Franz Kafka |
Joyce Carol Oates |
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July 18 |
Girl |
Jamaica Kinccaid |
Stephanie Vaughn |
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July 25 |
The Smallest Woman in the World |
Clarice Lispector |
Julia Alvarez |
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August 1 |
The Daughters of the Late Colonel |
Katherine Mansfield |
Deborah Eisenberg |
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August 8 |
Labor Day Dinner |
Alice Munro |
David Leavitt |
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August 15 |
Spring in Fialta |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Jim Shepard |
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August 22 |
The Things They Carried |
Tim O'Brien |
Bobbie Ann Mason |
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August 29 |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
Flannery O'Connor |
Sue Miller |
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September 5 |
I Stand Here Ironing |
Tillie Olsen |
Amy Hempel |
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September 12 |
Wants |
Grace Paley |
Janet Kauffman |
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September 19 |
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities |
Delmore Schwartz |
Tim O'Brien |
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September 26 |
The Man To Send Rain Clouds |
Leslie Marmon Silko |
Louis Owens |
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October 3 |
Helping |
Robert Stone |
Louise Erdrich |
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October 10 |
Master and Man |
Leo Tolstoy |
Ron Hansen |
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October 17 |
Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car |
John Updike |
Lorrie Moore |
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October 24 |
The Flowers |
Alice Walker |
Edward P. Jones |
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October 31 |
No Place for You, My Love |
Eudora Welty |
Russell Banks |
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November 7 |
Paper Garden |
Jerome Wilson |
Al Young |
For more information, contact David Harrison, 704-427-9562.
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