지하서재에서 영문에세이 읽기 모임을 시작한 지 어느덧 1년이 되었습니다. 지난 1년 열심히 참석해 주신 여러분께 감사드리고, 그동안 읽었던 글들, 그리고 함께 나눈 대화가 우리들 생각의 지평을 조금이라도 넓혀 줄 수 있었기를 희망합니다. 아래에 지난 해 읽은 글들의 목록을 올려 두겠습니다. 2020년에도 모임은 지속됩니다. 모임은 매주 목요일 지하서재에서 오전 10시~12시에 있습니다.
- Lars Eighner. “On Dumpster Diving”
- Dan W. Brock. “Human Cloning and Our Sense of Self”
- Five poems of Kahlil Gibran, Elizabeth Bishop, William Ernest Henley.
- Ursula K. Le Guin. “In Your Spare Time”
- Roger Ebert. “Go gentle into that good night”
- John Donne. “Meditation XVII”
- John Donne. “Death, Be Not Proud”
- Clancy Martin. “Why you can’t have love without lies”
- Virgnia Woolf. From A Room of One’s Own.
- John Berger. From Ways of Seeing
- George Orwell. “Why I Write”
- Diane Tavenner. “How I Learned to Let My Kid Fail”
- Henry David Thoreau. From Walden: Life in the Woods
- William Shakespeare. From Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar
- Kate Chopin. “The Story of an Hour.”
- Diane Ackerman. “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall”
- E. B. White. “Once More to the Lake”
- Susan Sontag “Against Interpretation”
- Ursula K. Le Guin. “About Anger”
- Shierly Jackson. “The Lottery”
- Suzanne Britt. “Neat People vs Sloppy People”
- Friedrich Nietzsche. “The things people call Love”
- Paul Kalanithi. “Before I go”
- Oliver Sacks. “My Own Life”
- Ursula K. LeGuin. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
- Shoshana Zuboff. “The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined”
- Peter Martin. “American English and British English: How They Grew Apart”
- James Harvey Robinson. “On Various Kinds of Thinking”
- Isaac Asimov. “True Love”
- Albert Camus. “The Myth of Sisyphus”
- Virginia Woolf. “The Death of the Moth”
- George Santayana. “Philosophy of Travel”
- William Carlos Williams. “The Use of Force”
- Richard Wiseman. “The Search for the World’s Funniest Joke.”
- Katy Steinmetz. “How Learning New Words Could Make You Happier”
- Richard Nisbett. “The mistake we all make . . . and the simple experiment that reveals it.”
- Rebecca Brown. “Extreme Reading”
- Alan M. Dershowitz. “Shouting ‘Fire!’”
- Annie Dillard. “Living Like Weasles”
- K. C. Cole. “The Arrow of Time”
- Richard Marius. “Writing Drafts”
- Jonathan Safran Foer. “Let Them Eat Dog”
- Bruno Bettleheim. “Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts.”
- James Rachels. “Active and Passive Euthanasia”
- Barbara Huttman. “A Crime of Compassion”
- Alan Herscovici. “Where’s the Beef?”
- Joseph Pace. “Let’s Go Veggie!”
- Marya Mannes. “How Do You Know It’s Good?”
- Anna Quindlen. “Evan’s Two Moms”
- Judith Viorst. “The Truth About Lying”
- Deborah Tannen. “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers”