This month we turn back to the past for Zora Neale Hurston's “Sweat,” first published in 1926. Hurston is best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which was published in 1937, and which explores many of the same themes put forth in “Sweat” in much the same style. Hurston's use of eye
Since our March meeting falls so soon after our previous one, this month's story is short enough to read in one go: Kate Chopin's “The Storm.” Originally written in 1898, it was n't published until 1969, 65 years after Chopin's death. It isn't hard to imagine why this particular story remained unpublished for so long. It's
It is not unusual for a library to offer a reading club among its cultural entertainment activities, but it is peculiar that it develops on Anglo-Saxon readings in English and that the colloquium is held in that language. The fact that it was also started in 2005 and that ten years later it is still active
Our last story of the 2014-2015 cycle is Norman Mailer's “The Language of Men,” published in Esquire magazine in 1953. This story closes not only our annual cycle, but also the sub-cycle of our last three texts, all of which (starting with Twain's “The Californian's Tale” and continuing on with Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants”)
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Andrew Bennett as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The