Does being the life of the party justify neglecting your family and playing mean jokes on people? Probably not, but somehow our narrator, the town barber finds some redeeming qualities in the town clown, Jim. Jim's antics are definitely entertaining as they are retold by the barber, but the people who were the butts of his jokes are not laughing.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
How to Write Short Stories by Ring Lardner
If you've ever wanted to try your hand at writing short fiction, don't listen to Ring Lardner's advice! This is a very silly satircal piece about writing style, "technic," and short story marketing.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Mr. and Mrs. Fixit by Ring Lardner
Did you ever have a "friend" who seemed to know everything about anything and was never afraid to offer a nickel's worth of free advice? And how long did that friendship last? In Mr. and Mrs. Fixit a nice Chicago couple falls into a friendship with an especially helpful and knowledgeable couple from across town, and they have a lot of trouble extricating themselves!
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Romance in It by Edgar Wallace
A known con man decides to help a poor soldier come chicken farmer by pulling a heist on his father in law. Told from the perspective of a friendly good hearted police officer.
Romance in It by Edgar Wallace
A known con man decides to help a poor soldier come chicken farmer by pulling a heist on his father in law. Told from the perspective of a friendly good hearted police officer.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
On the Belgian Coast by George Brame
A harrowing first person account of a private during World War 1. Moving in its simplicity and specificity, this autobiographical fiction makes the unimaginable personal. As always, the best anti-war story is a war story.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
The Dancing Bear by Etienne Barsony
Not every man is cut out for the life of a soldier, and who can judge whether the horrors of war warrant him to desert? In this story a deserter comes face to face unexpectedly with his captain. The captain threatens to have him arrested if the soldier will not give over his girlfriend. This love triangle comes to a gruesome end involving a dancing bear, Ibrahim.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
An Illusion in Red and White by Stephen Crane
Of all the stories heard and told by the newspaper men on the Cuban blockade, this murder was the one that most struck our narrator. A man kills his wife in full sight of his four children, and yet they all testify that it was someone else, that the murderer looked quite different from their father. Speculation about exactly how the man managed to convince his children of his innocence forms the basis of our story.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Manacled by Stephen Crane
In this tiny gem of a story Stephen Crane packs in the suspense of one of our most terrifying cultural tropes. He uses grim foreshadowing and plucky alliteration to spin the reader, before she can catch her breath to the inevitable conclusion. Not for the agoraphobic listener!
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