11 October 2006

Woolf discussion

Devoted to discussing one short story a month, A Curious Singularity has chosen Virginia Woolf's "Kew Gardens" for October. The discussion got started yesterday... Anyone is free to chime in.

Here is the rest of their tentative schedule:
Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens” (1919)
Katherine Mansfield, "At the Bay" (1922)
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist” (1924)
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
Delmore Schwartz, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (1937)
Kay Boyle, "Winter Night" (1946)
Jean Stafford, "In the Zoo" (1953)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool” (1953)
Isak Dinesen, “The Blank Page” (1957)
James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues" (1957)
Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1961)
Frank O'Connor, "My Oedipus Complex" (1963)
John Cheever, "The Swimmer" (1964)
Patrick White, “Dead Roses” (1964)
Grace Paley, "A Conversation with My Father" (1974)
Alice Munro, "How I Met My Husband" (1974)
Jean Rhys, "Sleep it Off Lady" (1976)
Raymond Carver, "Where I'm Calling From" (1983)

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