Storytime for Adults

Why should children have all the fun? Our monthly 'Storytime for Adults' meets the second Tuesday of the month at the Turtle Stack Brewery. Join us to hear your favorite local librarians and performers read some of our favorite short stories and essays. Beer and beverages are available for purchase. For ages 21+ only. Caution: stories may include adult content. Listener discretion is advised.

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2019

August: Stranger Than Fiction

True Tales of La Crosse by Douglas Connell
The Dog Says How by Kevin Klink
Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse by James Breakwell
Echoes of Our Past by Myer Katz
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul

Essay:
My Dad Tried to Kill Me With an Alligator by Harrison Scott Key

July: Darwin Awards

Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen 
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Satire: 
Looking Back, It Was a Mistake Granting Sentience to the Country Bears by Jeff Loveness

Short Story: 
What We Wanted To Do (from The Hotel Eden: Stories) by Ron Carlson

June: Throwback Tuesday

True Tales of La Crosse by Douglas Connell
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Austenland by Shannon Hale

Satire: 
Thanks, Cindy, For Making Eye Contact Through the Bathroom Stall and Making It Super Awkward During the Department Productivity Meeting by Anna Kemp

May: Read This Movie

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paper Towns by John Green
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Satire: 
New Erotica for Feminists by Caitlin Kunkel, Carrie Wittmer, Brooke Preston, and Fiona Taylor

April: Death and Taxes

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown
Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
Selected Poems by W.H. Auden 

Essays: 
And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan by Nicholas Kristof
The Queen's Gold Piano is the Best Weird Flex by R. Eric Thomas

Poem: 
Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden

March: March Madness

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman 
Laughs on Wry: An Improviser's Memoir by Lisa David Olson
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sanchez 
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A.J. Jacobs
Lust for Life: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone
Personal Recollections of Vincent Van Gogh by Elizabeth Huberta Du Quesne-van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh: Genius and Disaster by A.M. Hammacher

Letters:
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/

Essay:
Everything You Need to Know About Your Public Libray's New Murder Dome by Danny Zillmer

February: Bad Romance

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Champion Chocolatier: Reality Bites by Amanda Zieba
Mary's Monster by Lita Judge
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Emma by Jane Austen

Essay:
My Love For You Burns Like This Dumpster Fire I Accidentally Started by Harris Mayersohn

Poem:
Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda

January: Broken Resolutions

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Year of No Clutter: a memoir by Eve Schaub
The Tell-Tale Heart (in The Annotated Poe) by Edgar Allen Poe

Essays:
We've Reached a New Low, Although I'm Not Going to Specify Who's Responsible by Chandler Dean 
My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside LA's Cult of Betterness by Rosencranss Baldwin

2018

December: Holiday Horrors

Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters: Stories by Daniel H. Wilson
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Krampus: the Yule Lord by Brom

November: Family Feuds

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
Listen to the Squawking Chicken by Elaine Lui
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Toddlers are Assholes by Bunmi Laditan
I know I Am, but What Are You? by Samantha Bee

Letter:
Apologies by Honest Toddler

Satirical Essays:
I'm Tired of "Well-meaning" Parents Interfering When My Toddler and I Rob a Liquor Store by Alex Kane
It's Official! Your Winter Depression Has Just Been Renewed for Another Season! by Richard Light

October: Happy Birthday

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak by Jack Handey
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

Blogs and Essays: 
I Work Security at Disney World...Well, I Mean, I Did
An Open Letter to Balding Men from a Bald Man by Keith Plocek
An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room by Ross Beeley

Plays: 
Tape by Jose' Rivera

September: Forbidden Texts

The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
Mine's the Best by Crosby Bonsall
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Forever... by Judy Blume
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Another Time by W.H. Auden 

August: Vacation Blues

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Road Trip by Gary Paulsen
Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1 - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme

Poetry: 
Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie by Bob Dylan

Satirical Essay: 
The Sea is My Mistress, Please Don't Tell My Wife by James Folta

July: Dog Days of Summer

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Sting Ray Afternoons by Steve Rushin
Swim the Fly by Don Calame
The Wild Inside by Jamey Bradbury 
Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley

Satirical Essays: 
Other Moments in a Soccer Player's Life by Jamie Allen 
An Open Letter to the Couple Who Found My Panties in Their Yard Last Summer by Sarah Johnson
I've Read 5 of the 143 Words in Your Facebook Status, and Now I Hate You, Old Friend by Shannon Reed

June: (un)Happily Ever After

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
The Cracker Queen by Lauretta Hannon
Last Words of the Holy Ghost by Matt Cashion
Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays by Eric Lane

Satirical Essays: 
Who I Am, In Order by Sam Weiner
When Making Love to Me, What Every Woman Must Please Keep In Mind by Mike Sacks 

May: Apocalypse-a-Go-Go

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

Poem: 
Darkness by Lord Byron

April: April Fools

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

March: Ides of March

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Last Words of the Holy Ghost by Matt Cashion
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Double Dealing in Dubuque by Dean Klinkenberg
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell 

Essays: 
Closing the Gap by Heidi Blanke
Since You're About to Be Orphaned, Young Future Superhero, Let Me Lay One Last Guilt Trip On You by Juliana Gray

February: Tainted Love

I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Paranormal Kisses by Ashlynn Monroe
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life by Laurie Notaro

Articles and Plays: 
Charm School Dropout by Rochelle Hartman
Sure Thing by David Ives