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Essay/Short Story of the Week

post #1 of 4
11/4/10 at 12:03pm
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Completely unnofficial! Don't know how much response this will get, or, indeed, how long I can keep it up. But similar to a thread in the music forum where a poster (I think it was eyeball kid) listed an mp3 with brief commentary every day. I'm not that verbose, so PM me your suggestions/selections (along with a brief paragraph illustrating why). I also figure that short stories and essays are more managable for folks to read (and you can read at your own leisure) than full novels.

This week's selections are:

Essay: "The White Album" by Joan Didion, appearing in the titular collection and We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction.

Short Story: "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" by J.G. Ballard, appearing in The Stories of J.G. Ballard.
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post #2 of 4
11/4/10 at 1:00pm
This is a fantastic idea. I'm going to try and get those two items today (or, at least the JG Ballard one..)
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post #3 of 4
11/4/10 at 3:32pm
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live is at my library, so I can pick that up no problem. This should be a fun thing.
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post #4 of 4
11/10/10 at 5:06pm
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This week:

Essay: "Big Red One," David Foster Wallace, from Consider The Lobster

Essay: "Scenes from My Life in Porn," Evan Wright, originally published by L.A. Weekly, appeared in Wright's essential "Hella Nation," and which you can find oh-so-convienently here.
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