Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Selected Shorts: City People

"Malta Sheffer" by Nelson Eubanks (read by Brandon J. Dirden) and "A Sunday Kind of Love" by Tom Wolfe (read by Tracee Chimo)

Excerpts from Humans of New York (read by Vanessa Aspillaga, Jason Biggs, Tracee Chimo, Lynn Cohen, Brandon J. Dierdan and Peter Francis James)

Selected Shorts: Growing Up

"Resistance" by Stephan Enter (read by Michael Cerveris) and "Gorilla, My Love" by Toni Cade Bambara (read by Hattie Winston)

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Selected Shorts: Young Love (2/8)

"How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munro, read by Amy Ryan/"The Meeting" by Aimee Bender, read by Paul Hecht

Does the story/selection appeal to you? Why or why not?
What does the reader to do bring the story to life, create a vivid voice? How would you rate the telling of the story? What in particular did you like or dislike?

Selected Shorts: Hard Times (2/17)

"Republica Y Grau" by Daniel Alarcon, read by David Strathairn/"The Letter Writer" by M.T. Sharif, read by Joe Morton

Does the story/selection appeal to you? Why or why not?
What does the reader to do bring the story to life, create a vivid voice? How would you rate the telling of the story? What in particular did you like or dislike?

Selected Shorts: An Alien and a Gentleman (2/24)

"Good Intentions" by Etgar Keret, read by Leonard Nimoy/"The Man Who Liked Dickens" by Evelyn Waugh, read by Leonard Nimoy

Does the story/selection appeal to you? Why or why not?
What does the reader to do bring the story to life, create a vivid voice? How would you rate the telling of the story? What in particular did you like or dislike?

Selected Shorts: Strange Places (3/1)

"Portal" by J. Robert Lennon, read by Robert Sean Leonard/"A Curtain of Green" by Eudora Welty, read by Frances Sternhagen

Things to Comment on:

Does the story/selection appeal to you? Why or why not?
What does the reader to do bring the story to life, create a vivid voice? How would you rate the telling of the story? What in particular did you like or dislike?

Thursday, March 3, 2016

If Dr. Seuss Followed the Electoral Campaign

Though it's not strictly related to English, I thought that the following video would be appropriate in light of our politically-minded discussion yesterday:


If only Trump would use this as a campaign ad ...