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Story Night
Nov. 27th, 2005 06:26 pmFriday night, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepwhenimdead and sarrabellum, and I went to a mutual friend's house for a party featuring a warm fire, mulled cider, and short fiction. At the hosts' request, guests brought a variety of short stories suitable for reading aloud.
This turned out to be a remarkably good idea: people read things like Stanislaw Lem's "A Good Shellacking" (from his collection, Cyberiad), Salman Rushdie's "The Mail Coach" (from his Haroun and the Sea of Stories), Ethan Cohen's (of Cohen Brothers filmmaking fame) "I Killed Phil Shapiro" (from his Gates of Eden), a chapter from Nicholson Baker's XXX-rated The Fermata, O. Henry's The Count and the Wedding Guest (you can read the entire story at that link--worth the chuckle), and the first chapter of Daniel Pinkwater's Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories--generally to peals of laughter.
All of which reminds me that I don't have enough short fiction, or enough humor, on my bookshelf.
sleepwhenimdead and sarrabellum, and I went to a mutual friend's house for a party featuring a warm fire, mulled cider, and short fiction. At the hosts' request, guests brought a variety of short stories suitable for reading aloud. This turned out to be a remarkably good idea: people read things like Stanislaw Lem's "A Good Shellacking" (from his collection, Cyberiad), Salman Rushdie's "The Mail Coach" (from his Haroun and the Sea of Stories), Ethan Cohen's (of Cohen Brothers filmmaking fame) "I Killed Phil Shapiro" (from his Gates of Eden), a chapter from Nicholson Baker's XXX-rated The Fermata, O. Henry's The Count and the Wedding Guest (you can read the entire story at that link--worth the chuckle), and the first chapter of Daniel Pinkwater's Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories--generally to peals of laughter.
All of which reminds me that I don't have enough short fiction, or enough humor, on my bookshelf.
