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January 1, 2010: Liz's Apartment

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September 23, 2009: James and Kaitlin's Apartment

Sorry for the messy notes--Liz will fix these up as soon as she gets a chance.

• Dan N. - "Romance in the Roaming 40's"
• Liz - Anthony Trollope
• James - McSweeneys 12 - Gorilla Girl and attendant letter
• Margaret - by self - "Hidden Data"
• Kaitlin - Leonard Richardson
• ____ (first-timer) - Ode to a Nightingale
• Kevin C.: Neofut play "the idea of you" - Dave Allrath - 100 Neofturist plays from TMLMTBGB
• Kevin C.: from Calvin Trillin, On School plays

 

August 13, 2009: Dan's Apartment

Sorry for the messy notes--Liz will fix these up as soon as she gets a chance.

• Ari L.: from "My Cocaine Museum" by Michael Taussig. From the KGB Bar nonfiction reader.
• Dan N.: "14 Days on the Pacific S." from the Ridiculous Race
• Julian Y.: the Las Vegas sequence from Liberation by Brian Slattery.
• Nikki G.: From Titus Groan by Mervyn
• Gina G.: - R is for Rocket - Uncle Einar - Ray Bradbury

 

July 13, 2009: Julian's Apartment

• Anders N. : "Escape" from Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler.

• James S.: "ZANGBANDTK: Confessions of a dungeon-hack" by Kieron Gillen. Full text online here.
• Chris H.: "Belleville, Illinois" by Christopher Orlet. From Hobart #6.
• Gina G.: "The Elephant's Child" by Rudyard Kipling. From Just So Stories. Gina read from the 1978 edition with illustrations and captions by Kipling.
• Dave: "Squid" from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Full text online here.
• Mike C.: selections (Pac Man, Double Dragon) from Lucky Wander Boy by D. B. Weiss.
• Anne Z.: "The Dominant Primordial Beast" from Call of the Wild by Jack London. Full text online here.
• Nikki G.: Chapter 1 from Year 2018 by James Blish. Otherwise known as They Shall Have Stars.
• Julian Y.: "A Letter from a Dungeon" by Ernest Adams. Full text online here.
• Shieva K.: "The Paradox of the Question" by Ned Markosian from Western Washington University. Full text online here. "A version of this paper appears in Analysis 57 (1997), pp. 95-97."

 

June 14, 2009: Margaret's Apartment

• Anders N.: end of Black Hole
• Margaret M.: submission manuscript
• Nikki G.: "Notes from a Native Daughter" by Joan Didion, from Slouching Toward Bethlehem
• Liz G.: "The Weight and Excellence of Coal" by M. T. Anderson. From The Great River Review, date unknown.
• Austin W.: "There Are No Dead" by Terry Bisson. From OMNI, January 1995, and In the Upper Room: And Other Likely Stories. Full text online here.
• Josh S.: "The Night the Ghost Got In" by James Thurber. From The Thurber Carnival / My Life and Hard Times.
• Dan N.: from The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• Julian Y.: From "Werewolves in Their Youth" by Michael Chabon. From Werewolves in Their Youth. Full text online here.

 

May 14, 2009: Liz's Apartment

• Margaret M.: "The Death Beat" by Mark Singer, from the July 8, 2002 New Yorker. Full text online here.
• Dan N.: "Writing is Easy" by Steve Martin, from Pure Drivel.
• James S.: "Shipping Out" by David Foster Wallace, from the January 1996 Harper's Magazine. Reprinted in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Full text online here.
• Betsey W.: "Daisy" by Andrew Willet, from Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson. Full text online here.
• Ari L.: "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff, from Our Story Begins. Full text online here.
• James S.: Achewood from 9/23/02 and selections from Tor.com's Naughty Apocalypse contest

 

March 15, 2009: James and Kaitlin's Apartment

• Nikki G.: "The Man Who Lived Above Us" by Peter Turchi, from Story Magazine (second incarnation), v48 #1, Winter 2000.
• Margaret M.: "During the Jurassic" by John Updike, from The Early Stories: 1953-75 and possibly other collections.
• James S.: "The King of Sentences" by Jonathan Lethem. Full text online here.
• Dan N.: "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Neil Gaiman. From Fragile Things.
• Margaret M. christ-what-an-asshole-izes some New Yorker cartoons.
• Liz G.: "The Recently Deflowered Girl" by Mel Juffe and Edward Gorey. Full book online here.

 

December 22, 2008: Liz's Apartment

(I'm iffy about the order on this one.)

• Nell M.: Something about Christmas ("The Best Mas Ever"?) from More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman.
• Matthew F.:  "A Signal in the Sky Said: Marry Her," by Ben Karlin, in the March 9, 2008 issue of The New York Times. Full text online here.
• Liz G.: "Pride and Joy" by Etgar Keret, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. Find it in The Nimrod Flipout or hear Robert Sean Leonard read it on PRI's Selected Shorts podcast (5/13/08).
• Dan N.: "Hobo Wars of the Great Depression" from The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman.
• James S.: bridge bidding sequence, self-adapted.
• James S.: "An Afternoon" by Ian Rankin, from New Writing Scotland 2. Full text online at The Story.

 

November 23, 2008: Lizzie's Apartment

• Emily C.: From Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
• Anise S.: “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis. Full text online here.
• Gina G.: "My Affliction" by Gabrielle Bell. Self-published mini-comic later reprinted in Lucky Volume 2 #1.
• Miriam G.: "The Dubbing of General Garbage" from City Boy by Herman Wouk.
• James S.: From James Brown: Live at the Apollo by Douglas Wolk. Accompanied by the album.
• Liz G.: From Celine Dion: Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. Accompanied by the song.
• Followthrough: Thomas Kinkade's memo about how to create "The Thomas Kinkade Look" on film, Team Fortress2 Karaoke performs "My Heart Will Go On," BURN-E

 

October 20, 2008: Nikki's Apartment

• Elisa: From The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin. Forgot to note which story.
• Megan H.: From Sex on the Altar by Wencke Braathen.
• Gina G.: “The Last of the Dragons” from The Complete Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit.
• James S.: Selected footnotes from Rising Up and Rising Down.
• Austin W.: From Little, Big by John Crowley.
• Julian Y.: Joanna Russ story. (I had this listed as "Incarion," but cannot confirm.)
• Liz G.: "Ghost Dance" by Sherman Alexie. From McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (edited by Michael Chabon) or The Living Dead (edited by John Joseph Adams)
• Nikki G.: From "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson. From (among others) The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois.

 

September 24, 2008: Liz's Apartment

• Miriam G.: "The American Male at Age 10" by Susan Orlean, from The New Kings of Nonfiction, edited by Ira Glass.
• James S.: From Liberation by Brian Slattery.
• Margaret M.: "Excellent" from Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan.
• Gina G.: "My Uncle in the Garden" from Just An Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson.
• Daniel N.: From Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
• Katie H.: From The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe
• Megan H.: From Paper Towns by John Green.

 

August 27, 2008: Julian's Apartment

• Becky S.: "Incognita, Inc." by Harlan Ellison, from Hemispheres (United inflight magazine). Reprinted in Realms of Fantasy #42 and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection.
• Elizabeth P.: From Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
• Nathalie H.: From Time and Again by Jack Finney.
• Liz G.: From "The Situation" by Jeff VanderMeer. Full text online here.
• Julian Y.: "Secrets of the Mall of America" from The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman.
• Gina G.: Something by Daniel Harms, possibly a sonnet called "Today It Was Dead."

 

July 28, 2008: Nell's Apartment

• Julian Y.: From Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon.
• Alexa F.: From Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
• Lizzie O.: From Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
• Rachel A.: From Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson.
• Sarah N.: From The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.
• Nell M.: Poem (?) by Phillip Lopate.
• Daniel N.: "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" by Neil Gaiman, from and Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman.

 

June 16, 2008: Julian's Apartment

• Anne K.: From The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon.
• James S.: "Part 2: Information You Will Find Useful in the Present: How to Write a Book: The Fifty-Five Dramatic Situations" from The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
• Daniel N.: The 2007 results of the Bulwer-Lytton Award. Full text online here.
• Julian Y. and Liz G.: Scenes one and two of Bach at Liepzig by Itamar Moses.
• Lizzie O.: From Mr. Summer's Story by Patrick Siskind.
• Nell M.: From Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson.
• Crystal: From "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville. In 13; possibly other books as well.

 

May 12, 2008: Nell's Apartment

• Aviva P. "The Wooden Bride" by Margo Lanagan, from The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories About Sex and Gender, edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith. Also in Lanagan's anthology Black Juice.
• Matthew F.:  "A Signal in the Sky Said: Marry Her," by Ben Karlin, in the March 9, 2008 issue of The New York Times. Full text online here.
• Liz G.: "I Dated Jane Austen" by T.C. Boyle. Illustrated version online here. Also read by Isaiah Sheffer on Program 26 of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts podcast.
• James S.: Copyright page from Timothy McSweeney's Blues/Jazz Odyssey (McSweeney's #2, Winter/Spring 1999).
• Betsey W.: "Retirement Party" by Kenneth Bernard, from The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, edited by Donald Breckenridge.
• Ari C.: Chapters one ("The Tar Road"), three ("The Volunteer"), and forty-two ("Night") from The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner.
• Betsey W.: "On the Other Side" by Marie Carter and "The Monkey and the Snake" by Tim Rogers, both from The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, edited by Donald Breckenridge.

 

April 9, 2008: Julian's Apartment

• Lizzie O: From The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Full text online here.
• Kaitlin H.: "Even the Queen" from Even The Queen: And Other Short Stories  by Connie Willis. Other publications here.
• James S.: "Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel. Full text online here.
• Nell M.: "Walking into the Wind" by ?.
• Nell M. & Anne K: "Oranges" by Miranda July, from Tin House: Fantastic Women.
• Dennis C.: excerpt from Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

 

March 10, 2008: Liz's Apartment

• Cameron M.: "The Swim Team" from No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July.
• Olga K.: "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" (first half) from St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell.
• Matthew F.: "Client 9" (search warrant request filing, reprinted at TPM). Full text online here.
• Julian Y.: "Crazy Things Seem Normal, Normal Things Seem Crazy" by Chuck Klosterman, from The New Kings of Nonfiction, edited by Ira Glass.
• Megan H.: "ABC Dada" (Powerpoint presentation, written and illustrated by Megan).
• James S.: Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond from McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Young Women Who Work At Chain Bookstores by Sara Bauer, An Open Letter to Lifetime Television for Women by Lucy Baker, and An Open Letter to The People Behind the "Now That's What I Call Music!" Series by Maggie Koerth.
• Eugene M.: "Flat Diane" (first half) by Daniel Abraham, from the October/November 2004 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Liz G.: "Cold Fires" by Mary Rickert, from Map of Dreams (also in the O/N04 F&SF).

 

February 12: 2008: Julian's Apartment

• Nell M.: Early section from The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage.
• Julian Y: "In Event of Moon Disaster" (unused speech written by William Safire for Richard Nixon during the Apollo 11 mission), from Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, edited by William Safire.
• James S.: "Turning the Tide", from World War Z by Max Brooks.
• Liz G.: "Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband" by George Saunders, from Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary, Maybe, Depending On How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures From the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, A Man Names Lars Farf, And One Other Story, edited by Ted Thompson and Eli Horowitz for McSweeney's.
• Natalie H.: Chapter 3 from Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen.
• Sam: From Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman.
• Anne K.: From The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson.
• Chris: "The Wild Swans at Coole" by William Butler Yeats. Full text here.
• David O.: Full list of questions asked by UGO.com for their Valentine's Day Dating Tips feature.

 

January 13, 2008: James’ Apartment

• Becky S.: “Copenhagen” from Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson.
• Matthew F.: "Dennim and the Golem" by Robert S. Babcock; from Dragon Magazine, issue 99.
• Betsy W.: "Goodbye to All Cats" by P.G. Wodehouse (in several Best Of collections).
• James S.: "A Note About the Font" from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, issue 3.

 

December 17, 2007: Julian’s Apartment

• Anne K.: From Hack: How I Stopped Worrying about What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab by Melissa Plaut.
• Natalie H.: First chapter of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• Julian Y.: "Second Person, Present Tense" by Daryl Gregory; from Year’s Best SF 11, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Matthew F.: "A Family Trip" by David Mamet; from Bad Trips, edited by Keath Fraser.
• James S.: From You Shall Know Our Velocity (third version) by Dave Eggers.
• Liz G.: "Nicholas Was" by Neil Gaiman (originally from Angels & Visitations or Smoke and Mirrors, full text online here) and advice for the holidays from Miss Manners, from Miss Manners' Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behavior by Judith Martin (older edition).
• Nell M.: From Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott.

 

November 14, 2007: James’ Apartment

• Matthew F.: "Go Starless in the Night," by Roger Zelazny; from A Spadeful of Spacetime, edited by Fred Saberhagen.
• Betsy W.: “The Second Bakery Attack” by Haruki Murakami, from The Elephant Vanishes.
• James S.: “Delmonico” by Daniel Handler, from McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories.
• Anne F.: From A White Merc With Fins by J. M. Hawes.

 

September 26, 2007: Nada's Apartment

(Order uncertain and some stories missing. Let us know if you remember what you read.)

• James S.: First chapter of The BFG by Roald Dahl.
• Liz G.: First chapter of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
• Eugene M.: Beginning of “Pop Art” by Joe Hill, from 20th Century Ghosts.

 

August 18, 2007: Washington Square Park

(Order uncertain and some stories missing. Let us know if you remember what you read.)

• Liz and James (alternating): “Sea Oak” from Pastorialia by George Saunders. Full text online here.

 

July 23, 2007: Flatiron Building

(Order uncertain and some stories missing. Let us know if you remember what you read.)

• Aviva P.: From The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith.
• Liz G.: Monologue from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Giurgis.
• Megan H.: Stories by child-Megan.
• Dale S.: Short comic piece, by Dale himself.
• Nada O.: Nietzsche's "The Problem of Socrates" from Twilight of the Idols, the Hollingdale translation. Here's another free online translation.
• James S.: "The Brief History of the Dead". Originally published in 9/8/03 The New Yorker (full text online); reprinted as the first chapter of the novel of the same name.

 

June 28th, 2007: James’ Apartment

• Nikki P.: From Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley.
• James S.: "The Story of Byron The Bulb" from Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
• Meghan M.: "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" from The Girl In the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender.
• Megan H.: From Follow Your Heart: Your Best Friend's Boyfriend by Andrew Mattthews.
• James S.: "Another Example of the Porousness of Various Borders (VI): Projected But Not Improbable Transcript of Author's Parents' Marriage's End, 1971" by David Foster Wallace, from Timothy McSweeney's Windfall Republic [McSweeney's #3, Late Summer, Early Fall (or Mid to Late Summer) 1999]. Full story in link.
• Nada O.: From The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford.
• Liz G.: Agented novel proposal, name withheld.