I remember all the nights I spent tucked into bed with my other sisters and our mother perched on the end of the bed reading Goodnight Moon to us. Those were the days; now I just stay up late at night reading to myself. It doesn’t sound like anything now, just a quiet void.
To fill that void comes a project called Listen Here, profiled here, which offers free weekly readings of short stories across New Haven coffee shops. Bringing life to the stories will be actors from the New Haven Theater Company.
“It’s first and foremost a community endeavor; it’s not, per se, a literary endeavor,” said Bennett Lovett-Graff who started the series with David Brensilver. The two men are trying to bring back the tradition of being read to. “In the end, Mr. Brensilver said, “It’s more about let’s just sort of unplug, take your iPod ear buds out, shut down the laptop and let’s just appreciate some great writing. Pretty simple.”
