Event: Online Reading Group, 15th December 2025 at 5PM (UK time)

The last short fiction reading group meeting before Christmas will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 15th December at 5pm (UK time). During the meeting, we will be discussing Ines’ reading suggestion: the short story “Lost in the Louvre” by Lucia Berlin. You can access it from this link.

Our conversation will focus on the following key questions that Ines has selected:

1. In your opinion, what is this short story about?
2. Due to their restricted length, short stories often draw on intermedial and intertextual references to maximise their effect. Which authors, books and artworks are present as an influence in “Lost in the Louvre”?
3. What is the relationship between imagination and reality in this short story?
4. What is the role of death in this short story?
5. How is time represented in this short story?
6. What do we learn about the narrator-protagonist and her relationship to other characters?

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