Week 7  Feb. 16-19

Reading: Paley’s The Collected Stories

The stories below are required reading—ones we’ll discuss together in seminar:

• Two Ears, Three Lucks
• Goodbye and Good Luck: A Woman, Young and Old; The Contest: An Interest in Life; Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life; The Floating Truth
• Wants; Debts; Faith in the Afternoon; Living; Faith in a Tree; Politics; Northeast Playground; The Little Girl; A Conversation with My Father; The Long-Distance Runner
• Love; Dreamer in a Dead Language; Anxiety; Ruthie and Edie; The Story Hearer; Zagrowsky Tells; The Expensive Moment; Listening

 Viewing: My America or Honk If You Love Buddha