[Yale-readings] Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series spring season begins this week!

We've moved to Tuesday nights!  And we've changed two of our venues!  See below for details

Tuesday, March 9, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Willoughby's Tea and Coffee at 194 York Street, under the Yale School of Architecture.

We begin 7 p.m. sharp, so come at 6:30 p.m. to order coffee and food ahead of time.

Use this map link<http://www.yelp.com/biz/willoughbys-new-haven> for location, and bring friends!

Listen Here! features local actors reading classic short stories by noted writers, past and present, in coffee houses throughout New Haven.

Tonight's theme, What Did She See in Him?, presents Raymond Carver's "Fat" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Jelly-Bean." This program is courtesy of the New Haven Review<http://www.newhavenreview.com/>, the literary journal of the Elm City, in collaboration with the New Haven Theater Company<http://www.newhaventheatercompany.com/> and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven<http://www.newhavenarts.org/>.


Future Listen Here! Readings, every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at one of four New Haven coffee houses.  Actors read classic and contemporary short stories over coffee & pastry.  Event is free.

March 9: What Did She See in Him?
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea

ü  Raymond Carver, "Fat"

ü  F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Jelly-Bean"

March 16: Short Cuts
Lulu: A European Coffee House

ü  I.B. Singer, "Why the Geese Shrieked"

ü  Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"

ü  John Cheever, "Reunion"

ü  Annie Proulx, "The Blood Bay"

March 23: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Bru Cafe

ü  Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh"

ü  Bernard Malamud, "The Jewbird"

March 30: Straight Shooters
Manjares Fine Pastries

ü  Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"

ü  Tobias Wolff, "Hunters in the Snow"

April 6: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea

ü  James Thurber, "You Could Look it Up"

ü  James Farrell, "My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park"

April 13: Something's Not Right
Lulu: A European Coffee House

ü  T.C. Boyle, "Bloodfall"

ü  Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"

April 20: L'Etranger
Bru Cafe

ü  Isidoro Blaistein, "Uncle Facundo"

ü  John Cheever, "The Swimmer"

April 27: For Shame
Manjares Fine Pastries

ü  Lorrie Moore, "Control Group"

ü  Toni Cade Bambera, "The Lesson"

May 4: Lovesick
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea

ü  Jhumpa Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter"

ü  Lydia Peele, "Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing"

May 11: Animal Crackers
Lulu: A European Coffee House

ü  Edgar Allan Poe, "The Black Cat"

ü  Annie Proulx, "The Half-Skinned Steer"

May 18: Brothers
Bru Cafe

ü  Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible"

ü  David Sedaris, "You Can't Kill the Rooster"

May 25: Romeos & Juliets
Manjares Fine Pastries

ü  Louise Erdrich, "The Plague of Doves"

ü  Wiliam Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"


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