Virtual Book Discussion: The New York Times Decameron Project
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Register here! CCPL's Zoom Server - This summer The New York Times published its first all-fiction edition of The New York Times Magazine. The 29 stories by popular fiction authors are inspired by Boccacio's Decameron, written in the 1300s, in which 10 young people quarantined together outside Florence, Italy, during an outbreak of the bubonic plague, tell stories to entertain one another. Join us for two weeks of lunch-time discussions of stories from "The Decameron Project!"
To access the readings for free, you'll need your library card and to create an account on the Times' website. Use the same log in credentials for access inside or outside the library. Once logged in externally, you have 24 hours of free access to The New York Times and may reactivate your account as needed. To log in from outside the library, click here.
Signups begin on Thursday, July 23 on this page.You'll need to register to get the event code for the discussion!
Monday July 27
Margaret Atwood--Impatient Griselda
Edwidge Danticat--One Thing
Tommy Orange--The Team
Tuesday July 28
Charles Yu--Systems
Karen Russell--Line 19 Woodstock /Glisan
David Mitchell--If Wishes Was Horses
Wednesday July 29
Colm Toibin--Tales from the L.A. River
Victor LaValle--Recognition
Mia Couto--An Obliging Robber
Thursday July 30
Uzodenma Iweala--Sleep
Liz Moore--Clinical Notes
Etgar Keret--Outside
Friday July 31
Paolo Giordano--The Perfect Travel Buddy
Mona Awad--A Blue Sky Like This
Leila Slimani--The Rock
Monday August 3
Andrew O'Hagan--Keepsakes
Rachel Kushner--The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase
Kamila Shamsie--The Walk
Tuesday August 4
Téa Obreht--The Morningside
Alejandro Zambra--Screen Time
Dinaw Mengestu--How We Used to Play
Wednesday August 5
Rivers Solomon--Prudent Girls
Yiyun Li--Under the Magnolia
Dina Nayeri--The Cellar
Thursday August 6
Esi Edugyan--To the Wall
Laila Lalami--That Time at My Brother's Wedding
Julián Fuks--A Time of Death, the Death of Time
Friday August 7
John Wray--Barcelona: Open City
Matthew Baker--Origin Story
