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The Gingernut Collective has been meeting regularly since June 2021 to discuss literature:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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#35 \u2022 March 22, 2026:<\/strong>
\nDavid Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon”<\/p>\n

#34 \u2022 January 18, 2026:<\/strong>
\nWilliam Faulkner, “Barn Burning”<\/p>\n

#33 \u2022 December 20, 2025:<\/strong>
\nHarold Pinter, “Mountain Language”<\/p>\n

#32 \u2022 November 23, 2025:<\/strong>
\nFlann O’Brien, “Two in One”<\/p>\n

#31 \u2022 August 31, 2025:<\/strong>
\nEvelyn Waugh, “Du C\u00f4t\u00e9 de Chez Todd” aka “The Man Who Liked Dickens”<\/p>\n

#30 \u2022 June 29, 2025:<\/strong>
\nVladimir Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols”<\/p>\n

#29 \u2022 May 25, 2025:<\/strong>
\nItalo Calvino, “The Adventure of a Soldier”<\/p>\n

#28 \u2022 March 16, 2025:<\/strong>
\nTatyana Tolstaya, “Okkervil River”<\/p>\n

#27 \u2022 January 19, 2025:<\/strong>
\nUrsula K. Le Guin, “The Word of Unbinding” and “The Rule of Names”<\/p>\n

#26 \u2022 December 22, 2024:<\/strong>
\nHeinrich von Kleist, “St. Cecilia, or the Power of Music”<\/p>\n

#25 \u2022 November 3, 2024:<\/strong>
\nEdgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd”<\/p>\n

#24 \u2022 August 11, 2024:<\/strong>
\nKeller Easterling, “NON_2”
\nHonor Levy, “Love Story”<\/p>\n

#23 \u2022 June 23, 2024:<\/strong>
\nPaul Auster, “In the Country of Last Things”<\/p>\n

#22 \u2022 May 19, 2024:<\/strong>
\nAnne Carson, “Nay Rather”<\/p>\n

#21 \u2022 March 17, 2024:<\/strong>
\nToni Morrison, “The Nobel Lecture in Literature”<\/p>\n

#20 \u2022 December 22, 2023:<\/strong>
\nOctavia Butler, “Bloodchild”<\/p>\n

#19 \u2022 November 4, 2023:<\/strong>
\nCharlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”<\/p>\n

#18 \u2022 September 3, 2023:<\/strong>
\nRobert Walser, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays”<\/p>\n

#17 \u2022 July 30, 2023:<\/strong>
\nIngeborg Bachmann, “Undine Goes”
\nFranz Kafka, “The Silence of the Sirens”<\/p>\n

#16 \u2022 June 11, 2023:<\/strong>
\nBora Chung, “The Head”
\nIzumi Suzuki, “The Walker”<\/p>\n

#15 \u2022 May 6, 2023:<\/strong>
\nHan Kang, “The Middle Voice”<\/p>\n

#14 \u2022 March 19, 2023:<\/strong>
\nAnton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Little Dog”<\/p>\n

#13 \u2022 January 15, 2023:<\/strong>
\nTennessee Williams, “The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin”<\/p>\n

#12 \u2022 December 30, 2022:<\/strong>
\nFlannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”<\/p>\n

#11 \u2022 August 28, 2022:<\/strong>
\nToni Morrison, “Recitatif”<\/p>\n

#10 \u2022 June 12, 2022:<\/strong>
\nJames Joyce, “An Encounter”<\/p>\n

#09 \u2022 May 8, 2022:<\/strong>
\nClarice Lispector, “The Egg and the Chicken” and “Report on the Thing”<\/p>\n

#08 \u2022 March 19, 2022:<\/strong>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”<\/p>\n

#07 \u2022 January 22, 2022:<\/strong>
\nCharles Yu, “Standard Loneliness Package”<\/p>\n

#06 \u2022 December 23, 2021:<\/strong>
\nThomas Bernhard, “The Cap”<\/p>\n

#05 \u2022 August 28, 2021:<\/strong>
\nW. H. Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
\nJohn Berryman, “Dream Song 235”
\nFrank O’Hara, “Having a Coke with You”
\nLana Del Rey, “Violet Bent backwards over the Grass”<\/p>\n

#04 \u2022 July 31, 2021:<\/strong>
\nJorge Luis Borges, “Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”<\/p>\n

#03 \u2022 July 10, 2021: <\/strong>
\nSamuel Beckett, “Happy Days”<\/p>\n

#02 \u2022 June 19, 2021:<\/strong>
\nNikolai Gogol, “The Overcoat”<\/p>\n

#01 \u2022 June 4, 2021:<\/strong>
\nHerman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”<\/p>\n

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If you are interested in joining the reading group, please email: <\/em>dominik.zechner@rutgers.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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