Short & Sweet Past Readings
2023
- Willa Cather, “The Sentimentality of William Tavener”
- Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”
- Dorothy Parker, “A Telephone Call”
- Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild”
- Allegra Goodman, “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
- Te-Ping Chen, “Shanghai Murmur”
- Richard Ford, “Sweethearts”
2022
- Henry James, “The Aspern Papers”
- Leo Tolstoy, “God Sees the Truth, but Waits”
- NoViolet Bulawayo, “Hitting Budapest”
- Shirley Jackson, “Charles”
- Ring Lardner, “Haircut”
- David Szalay, “Turbulence”
- Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
- Lorrie Moore, “You’re Ugly, Too”
- Edith Wharton, “The Pelican”
2021
- Octavia E. Butler, “Speech Sounds”
- Graham Swift, “Blushes”
- Anton Chekhov, “Darling”
- Robert Frost, “The Question of a Feather”
- Ernest Hemingway, “In Another Country”
- Bryan Washington, “Katy”
- Elizabeth Spencer, “A Southern Landscape”
- Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
- Tony Earley, “The Place of Safety”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
2020
- Alice Munro, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
- Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Third and Final Continent”
- Shirley Hazzard, “Villa Adriana” from Cliffs of Fall
- Edith Wharton, “The Muse’s Tragedy”
- Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
- Savyon Liebrecht, “Apples from the Desert”