Authors from 2011-12 Season

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Headstrong Historian”

Sherman Alexie, “War Dances”

Paul Auster, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story"

Charles Baxter, “Gryphon”

Beth Bell, “Heart Dog"

Robin Black, “Immortalizing John Parker”

Carina Chocano, “How To Lay Off your Kids”

Roddy Doyle, “Ash”

Siobhan Fallon, “The Last Stand” and “Gold Star”

William Faulkner, “A Rose For Emily”

Ian Frazier, “Coyote V. Acme”

Myra Goldberg, “Who Can Retell”

Joanne Greenberg, “It’s November 1880, and the Angel of Death is Having a Bad Day”

Walter Kirn, “My Hard Bargain”

Patricia Marx, "Audio Tour"

W. Somerset Maugham, “The Verger”

Robert Garner McBrearty, “The Final Conversation”

Molly McNett, “Catalogue Sales”

Ogden Nash, “The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus”

David Nicholson, “A Few Good Men”

Tim O’Brien, “Speaking of Courage”

John O’Hara, “The Public Career of Mr. Seymour Harrisburg”

Dorothy Parker, “But the One on the Right”

Laura Pritchett, “The Color of the Impression”

Jack Schaefer, from his novel Monte Walsh, “Christmas Eve at the Slash Y”

Paul Simms, “Four Short Crushes”

James Thurber, “A Visit From Saint Nicholas (in the Ernest Hemingway Manner)”

Wells Tower, “The Landlord”

Studs Terkel's interview with Rax Wax, "Sudden Money" from The Good War

Trevanian, “The Apple Tree”