Stories

Under each theme in the menu, you will find information about each author, and a list of the stories and links to PDF versions.

Here's our upcoming schedule for Stories with Stouts:

• Asian Voices on Friday, May 21

• Humor on Friday, June 11

• Award Winners on July 16

• Deep Dive: Elmore Leonard Westerns on August 13

• Back to School on September 17

• Spooky Stories on October 15

• War Stories on November 12

• Fables and Myths on December 17

2022 themes will include: Poetry as Story, Cyberpunk, Graphic Stories (Comics), Marriage, Novellas, and Song as Story

Past Stories & Stouts Themes:

• F. Scott Fitzgerald on Friday, February 21, 2020

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Friday, April 10, 2020

• P. G. Wodehouse on Friday, April 24, 2020

• David Sedaris, Part 1 on Friday, May 8, 2020

• David Sedaris, Part 2 on Friday, May 22, 2020

• Joan Didion on Friday, June 5, 2020

• James Baldwin on Friday, June 19, 2020

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson on Friday, July 17, 2020

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson on Friday, July 31, 2020

• Black Women in Speculative Fiction on Friday, August 28, 2020

• Scary Stories on Friday, October 16, 2020

• Indigenous American Women on Friday, November 20, 2020

• Winter Holiday Stories on Friday, December 18, 2020

• Absurdist Fiction on Friday, January 22, 2021

• Women Writers on Friday, March 19, 2021