Reading Group
The Gingernut Collective has been meeting regularly since June 2021 to discuss literature:
#30 • June 29, 2025:
Vladimir Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols”
#29 • May 25, 2025:
Italo Calvino, “The Adventure of a Soldier”
#28 • March 16, 2025:
Tatyana Tolstaya, “Okkervil River”
#27 • January 19, 2025:
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Word of Unbinding” and “The Rule of Names”
#26 • December 22, 2024:
Heinrich von Kleist, “St. Cecilia, or the Power of Music”
#25 • November 3, 2024:
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd”
#24 • August 11, 2024:
Keller Easterling, “NON_2”
Honor Levy, “Love Story”
#23 • June 23, 2024:
Paul Auster, “In the Country of Last Things”
#22 • May 19, 2024:
Anne Carson, “Nay Rather”
#21 • March 17, 2024:
Toni Morrison, “The Nobel Lecture in Literature”
#20 • December 22, 2023:
Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild”
#19 • November 4, 2023:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
#18 • September 3, 2023:
Robert Walser, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays”
#17 • July 30, 2023:
Ingeborg Bachmann, “Undine Goes”
Franz Kafka, “The Silence of the Sirens”
#16 • June 11, 2023:
Bora Chung, “The Head”
Izumi Suzuki, “The Walker”
#15 • May 6, 2023:
Han Kang, “The Middle Voice”
#14 • March 19, 2023:
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Little Dog”
#13 • January 15, 2023:
Tennessee Williams, “The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin”
#12 • December 30, 2022:
Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
#11 • August 28, 2022:
Toni Morrison, “Recitatif”
#10 • June 12, 2022:
James Joyce, “An Encounter”
#09 • May 8, 2022:
Clarice Lispector, “The Egg and the Chicken” and “Report on the Thing”
#08 • March 19, 2022:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”
#07 • January 22, 2022:
Charles Yu, “Standard Loneliness Package”
#06 • December 23, 2021:
Thomas Bernhard, “The Cap”
#05 • August 28, 2021:
W. H. Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
John Berryman, “Dream Song 235”
Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke with You”
Lana Del Rey, “Violet Bent backwards over the Grass”
#04 • July 31, 2021:
Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
#03 • July 10, 2021:
Samuel Beckett, “Happy Days”
#02 • June 19, 2021:
Nikolai Gogol, “The Overcoat”
#01 • June 4, 2021:
Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
If you are interested in joining the reading group, please email: dominik.zechner@rutgers.edu