Smiley Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) on January 23, 2016 (00:30 A.M., January 24 (GMT)), for a discussion of "Lorelei" by Jerome Charyn. The story is a contemporary one telling the tale of a somewhat lovable con-man who winds up symbolically crashing on the rocks because of the seductive song of the sirens. Its a bit of a change of pace from our recent stories, and I think you will all enjoy it. Charyn is a contemporary writer, with some 30 novels, several non-fiction books, and many short stories to his credit. Over the past 50 years he has a built a reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and fictional American life. This story is my first encounter with his work, but I will attempt to locate additional stories by him for my own enjoyment and potential use in future Readers' Corner chats. The story was published in the August 2010 (Fiction) edition of the Atlantic Monthly and can be found on line at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/lorelei/308038/ Meeting Place: Webchat: http://www.koach.com...#Readers_Corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at the chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormy Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 readers-log-1-23-1016.txt Evaluation of Entertainment value: 3.6 Evaluation of Artistic Value: 3.56 Evaluation of Chat: 5 (rounded, we had one 4.8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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