Suggestions from the
December 6, 2010 Gathering
December 6, 2010 Gathering
Fiction:
When Washington was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
Oral History by Lee Smith
People of the Book, Years of Wonders, and March by Geraldine Brooks
The House at Riverton and The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
One Perfect Day by Lauraine Snelling
One Perfect Day by Lauraine Snelling
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Nonfiction:
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove by Max Cleland
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw by Jay R. Tunney
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
Foxfire 40th Anniversary Edition: Faith, Family, and the Land edited by Angie Cheek
Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect by Gloria Whelan
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
FEATURE FILM:
The Social Network, a 2010 drama film about the founding of the internet social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. David Fincher, director.
SHORT STORIES:
As an added bonus, here are a few short story suggestions from the reading diary of our Head Reference librarian:
The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane, The Jolly Corner by Henry James, I’m a Fool by Sherwood Anderson, Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway, The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor, and, The Music School by John Updike. All can be found in The American Short Story, Vol. 1, ed. by Calvin Skaggs.
On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya, and, In Amalfi by Ann Beattie. Both can be found in The Art of the Story, ed. by Daniel Halpern.
The Bound Man by Ilse Aichinger, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles, Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati, The Doll Queen by Carlos Fuentes, One Arm by Yasunari Kawabata, Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kindera, Gogol’s Wife by Tommaso Landolfi, Spring in Fialta by Valdimir Nabokov, The Artificial Nigger by Flannery O’Connor, Nomad and Viper by Amos Oz, Children Are Bored on Sunday by Jean Stafford, Beyond the Pale by William Trevor, No Place for You my Love by Eudora Welty. All can be found in The Art of the Tale, ed. by Daniel Halpern.
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner, Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth, The Rotifer by Mary Ladd Gavell, and, In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark. All can be found in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. by John Updike.
The Language of Men by Norman Mailer. In Esquires’ Big Book of Fiction, ed. by Adrienne Miller.
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne. All in 50 Great Short Stories, ed. by Milton Crane.
The Good Doctor by Susan Onthank Mates can be found in her short story collection The Good Doctor.
The Dead by James Joyce, and, The Weaver's Grave by Seumas O'Kelly.
Both can be found in The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, ed. by William Trevor.
Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car by John Updike can be found in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories.
Moon Gems by Ishikawa Jun, and, The Magic Chalk by Abe Kobo. Both can be found in The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories Vol. 1, 1929-1961, ed. by Van C. Gessel.
The Sheriff's Children by Charles W. Chesnutt, The Sky is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines, and, The Angel in the Alcove by Tennessee Williams. These can be found in The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories, ed. by Dorothy Abbott.
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, The Revolt of Mother by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Paul’s Case by Willa Cather, To Build a Fire by Jack London, Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright, The Enormous Radio, and, The Swimmer by John Cheever, Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison, To Room 19 by Doris Lessing, A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley, The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen, and, Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth. All can be found in The Story and Its Writer, ed. by Ann Charters.
The Destructors by Graham Greene can be found in 21 Stories by Graham Greene.
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, The Balcony by Filisberto Hernandes, The Third Bank of the River by Joao Gimaraes Rosa, Blow-up by Julio Cortazar, Love by Clarice Lispector, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marques,
The Wardrobe, the Old Man and Death by Julio Ramon Ribeyro, and, Subterranean River by Ines Arredondo. All can be found in The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, ed. by Carlos Fuentes.
Moonwalk by Susan Power, Wickedness by Ron Hansen, Rock Springs by Richard Ford, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, and, Cathedral by Raymond Carver. All can be found in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, ed. by Tobias Wolff.
The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever, and, the Catbird Seat by James Thurber. Both can be found in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker, ed. by David Remnick.
Visit the Library’s current Short Story Display located near the new magazine section for some more intriguing short story reads.
