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.

Keep an eye out for next month's installment of Storytime for Adults: Cheers!

Looking for more of what you heard at Storytime for Adults? Check out what we've read!

2021

September 2021

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Overstated: a Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States by Colin Quinn

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

October 2021

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Please, the Only Way I Can Parallel Park is if you Constantly Stare at Me by Julien Perez 

An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room by Ross Beeley

Smash It by Francina Simone

I know I am, but what are you? by Samantha Bee

Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

November 2021

Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends edited by Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman

Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Alice in Tumblr-land: and Other Fairy Tales for a New Generation by Tim Manley

December 2021

Excerpts from Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best by Jennie Egerdie (McSweeny’s)

Step Right Up by Tom Waits

Yes, The Silence of the Lambs is a Christmas Movie by Gary M. Almeter (McSweeny’s)

The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey

A Charlie Brown Christmas directed by Bill Melendez 

Calvin & Hobbes Letter to Santa by Bill Watterson

The 12 Days of Christmas: Not Exactly

The Zombie Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore