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(Sorry, haven't had a chance to do proper cleanup/formatting/research for awhile, so these are based on rushed at-event notes and may be incoherent or confusing. But I figure it's better to have the lists than not have them, and will try to get in here and clean them up eventually. --Liz)

June 28, 2011: James' Apartment: Second Short Shorts Storyreading

• Liz G.: from Jerusalem
• Julia G.: Invisible Cities: Malania, Penthacilia
• James S.: Lady Characters (Rejectionist)
• Kari L.: - Late At Work by David Tucker - Putting Everything Off and Voice Mail
• Noa W.: - Captain Kangaroo monkey story from Street Gang
• Josh S.: STFU is an initialism
• Carl H.: Ladel Rat Rotten Hut HL Chace - http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/
• James S.: Y's Poignant Guide intro
• Kari L.: Hōhiron- On Farting - Sibley Translation
• Noa W.: Mujina - http://www.sarudama.com/japanese_folklore/mujina.shtml - "The text is by Lafcadio Hearn, from the book Kwaidan. I think it was originally published in 1904 or thereabouts"
• Alana F.: - The Eyes Have it - Phil Dick
• Julia G.: - Robert F Daly OKC profile

April 15, 2011: Max and Lynn’s Apartment: No Monkeying Around

• Sarah E.: Sherwood Smith – The spoiler question
• Julian Y.: Goodnight Room
• Lizzie O.: Cooper’s Epic poem – the task – the revenge of the home? Horn?
• Austin W.: The vinland saga – norse account of discovery of America – karl seven: goes south
• Nikki G.: Science journal tracker
• Francelle W.:– words words words
• Max S.: non-fiction trader joes gummy tummies (review of new foods)
• Austin W.: George Washington’s rules of civility
• Nikki G.: the little sister by Raymond chandler
• Liz G.: dave shaw story (unsure where this was in the order)

March 15, 2011: James' Apartment: Incredibly Cheery

• Dan N.:  black dossier – “what ho gods of the abyss”
• Liz G.: babies
• Dave M.: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot – adventures in politics – my American story
• James S.: kij Johnson – 26 monkeys
• Ari L.: special topics… introduction
• Julia G.: lost books of the odyssey – guest friend 

January 27, 2011: James' Apartment: Warm Up With Storyreading (And Drinks)

• Julia R.: Erroll Flynn – My Wicked, Wicked Days
• Sumana H.: Finn – Title? - Thought you might want to know that the piece I read last night was by Finn Brunton, available here: http://finnb.net/a/e/mm2.html
• Dan N.: the Innocents Abroad – Twain
• Margaret M.: “No Return Address” – Sigrid Ellis – SH.com
• Liz G.: (coffee readings?)
• Becky S.: Where the Sidewalk Ends – Sara Cynthia
• James S.: Thoughtcatalog.com – emotions invented by internet
• Sarah (?): Today I will Fly – Mo Willems

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January 1, 2011: Liz's Apartment: New Year's Day Tea 2

• Leonard R.: from Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
• Emily C.: "Sesquipedalian" from Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• Alisa B.: the book thief segment from A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbenes
• Ari L.: chapters 4 and 5 from Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
• Michael C.: introduction to the Infinite Improbability Drive from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Michael C.: annotations to the tea party scene from The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner
• James S.: "Better" by Merlin Mann

October 16, 2010: Greenwood Cemetery / Gina's Apartment: Bring Out Your Storyreaders

• Sumana H.: from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• James S.: the openings of all of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events books, frex: 1 2 3 4. Purchase here.
• Lizzie O.: "Never Do That To A Book" from Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• Dan N.: "The Specter Bridegroom: A Traveller's Tale" by Washington Irving. Online here. Not sure which collection Dan read from.
• Alisa B.: "A School Story" by M. R. James. Online here. Not sure which collection Alisa read from.
• Julian Y.: "Bring-Your-Machete-To-Work Day" from I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloan Crosley. Crosley reads this essay here.
• Carl H.: Cthulhu tribute poems: (Unsure of name: Nathan Care?) by H. P. Lovecraft and "Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" by Robert E. Howard

August 16, 2010: James' Apartment: Who Wears Short Shorts?

• Laura B.: from A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
• James S.: "Communities Erect: Thoughts on the Intrinsic Value of Saying When You’re Standing Near Something" by Merlin Mann
• Margaret M.: end of "Mister Eight Eighty" in Reporting at Wit’s End by St. Clair McKelway
• Dave M.: from The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
• Ari L.: from Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
• Liz G.: lyrics to "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror" by Jeff Lewis. Video here.
• Sara - hit singles 90s / alt pop songs / steven segal / ex book deal / women on first dates / economic concepts / unpromising apartment ad teasers / phrases i'd rather not be heard at my funeral
• ??? (maybe Dan?): from Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte

July 28, 2010: Max and Lynn's Apartment: Upheaval

• Becky S.: from Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
• Fenn: from  Jpod by Douglas Coupland
• Margaret: continuation of "Mister Eight Eighty" in Reporting at Wit’s End by St. Clair McKelway, continued
• Liz G.: selections from Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide
• Anne K: from Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Ella S.: from Spook Country by William Gibson

June 1, 2010: Stephanie and Dave’s Apartment: The Coming Menace

• Dave M.: "A Brief Timeline of the Lobster In America" from The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman, plus a cover (I think?) of "Furry Old Lobster" backed by Stephanie J.
• Dan N.: "Butch Minds the Baby" by Damon Runyon. I assume this is in Guys and Dolls and Other Writings, but can't confirm.
• Alisha R.: from Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
• Sara L.:  From Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Mary C.: "The Poo Bomb" from The Story About the Baby by Jeff Vogel. Also available in book form.
• Mike C.: from the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Savior (non-canonical)

(From here on out I'm switching to IndieBound links whenever possible. Powell's is awesome, but we have great stores in New York, too!)

May 3, 2010: Flatiron Building: Mother, May I?

• Ari L.: from Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok
• Dave M.: from "Authority and American Usage," from Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace. Full text online here.
• Liz G.: from Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
• Ella S.: from Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feingold
• Margaret M.: from "Mister Eight Eighty" in Reporting at Wit’s End by St. Clair McKelway
• Mary C.: from "Magic for Beginners," from Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link. Many stories in the collection are free online here.
• Stephanie J.: "On the Kakapo," from Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
• Julia G.: the AOL Search Log of User #711391. Abridged version here. Many more queries here. A series of movies based on the queries here.

March 9, 2010: Dan’s Apartment: March of March

• Dan N.: "The Awful German Language" from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain. Full text online here.
• Margaret M.: (unknown story) from Reporting at Wit’s End by St. Clair McKelway

• James S. and Liz G. (with Sumana H.): from The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

• Leonard R.: from A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Carl H.: selections from The Scapegoat Review: "Nice Pig" by Nin Andrews, "When Wonderful, Add Water" by Sarah J. Sloat, "Idle Hands" by Karen Dietrich, "The Short Marriage of a Bride and Groom" by Timothy Gager
• Ben W. (?): from A Long Trek Home by Erin Mckittrick

February 10, 2010: Margaret’s Apartment: Heartstrung in Harlem

• Liz G.: "Palimpsest" by Catherynne M. Valente. Full text online here. You can also buy Paper Cities  (the Ekaterina Sedia-edited anthology in which it originally appeared) or Palimpsest (the novel it was expanded into).
• Dan N.: (forgot story title) from The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
• Margaret M.: comment by [user was fined for this post] from "Digital Killed the Radio Star" post on Metafilter
• Reina H.: found epistolary novella, excerpts, by anon.s
• Margaret M.: from Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon
• James S.: "People Are Becoming Clouds" by Joe Meno, from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 18. Also in Demons in the Spring.
• Sumana H.: "The Day Alan Turing Came Out" by Leonard Richardson, from Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, edited by Karen A. Romanko. Scheduled for release in October 2010.

January 1, 2010: Liz’s Apartment: New Year's Day Tea

• Lizzie O.: "The Fourth Sally, or How Trurl Built a Femfatalatron to Save Prince Pantagoon from the Pangs of Love, and How Later He Resorted to a Cannonade of Babies" from The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
• Sumana H.: "Oh Hollow Heart!  Oh Deepest Sorrow!" by Jon Carroll, from the 6/11/99 SF Chronicle
• Sumana H.: excerpts from a submission to Thoughtcrime Experiments
• Margaret M.: "The World of Tomorrow" from Essays of E. B. White
• Anne K.: "How To Date A Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" by Junot Diaz. From the 12/25/95 issue of The New Yorker. Also appears on The New Yorker fiction podcast with discussion by Edwige Danticat
• Josh A.: "The Palace at 4 a.m." from 40 Stories by Donald Barthelme
• Leah S.: from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Delia S.: "Dulce Domum" from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Ellen K.: "Dulce Domum" (by Ellen herself) from Eclipse 3, edited by Jonathan Strahan

October 29, 2009: Emily’s Apartment: Triple Terrace Terror

• Cancelled, alas

September 23, 2009: James and Kaitlin’s Apartment: Elevated Chelsea Markets

• Dan N.: "Romance in the Roaring Forties" by Damon Runyon. Collected in various anthologies including Guys and Dolls and Other Writings
• Liz G.: "Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte" by Anthony Trollope. Full text online here
• James S.: the Gorilla Girl letter, from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, & or Unbelievable
• Margaret M.: "Hidden Data," by Margaret herself
• Kaitlin H.: "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs" by Leonard Richardson. Full text online here
• ? [first-timer, female, dark hair (I think). Sorry, I didn’t catch your name!]: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. Full text online here
• Kevin C.: "The Idea Of You" by Dave Awl, from 100 Neo-futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Also appears on the TMLMTBGB CD and Dave’s collection What the Sea Means. Full text online here
• Kevin C.: Chapter on school plays from About Alice by Calvin Trillin

August 13, 2009: Dan’s Apartment: Green Gardens

• Ari L.: from My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig, from the KGB Bar nonfiction reader, or in its own volume
• Dan N.: "Fourteen Days on the Pacific S." (?) from The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
• Julian Y.: the Las Vegas sequence from Liberation by Brian Slattery
• Nikki G.: from Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• Gina G.: "Uncle Einar" from R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury and several other anthologies

July 13, 2009: Julian’s Apartment: Thrilling Tales in Soho

• 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: Where You're From

• 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: High Altitude and Low Light Stories

• 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: Tales of Spring Awakening and Love/Stories in Our Town

• 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," from Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman.
• 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: Hellish Holiday Histories & Hot Chocolate

(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: Multimedia & Miraculous Stories

• 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: A Story Grows In Brooklyn

• 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: Open-Air Storyreading

• 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: Storyreading Farewells

• 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: Summer of Storyreading

• 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: Every Good Book Deserves Finding

• 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: New Apartments, New Stories

• 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 Quarterly Concern Issue 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: April Fools Day is Serious Business

• 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: Books are composed of letters in Alphabet City

• 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: Tis better to have read a story...

• 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: Hot Chocolate, Storyreading, Birthday, Rock

• 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: Don't buy anything, Christmas Storyreading is free!

• 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: Give Thanks for Storyreading!

• 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: Storyreading in the Village (Long Selection)

(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: Ice Cream, Stories, and Debauchery

(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: Storyreading in the Park, Take Two (Also Not In The Park)

(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: Storyreading in the Park (Not In The Park)

• 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 Quarterly Concern Issue 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