A monthly reading and conversation with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
He has taken monthly readings going back 45 years and found 80 instances in which they have been this low or lower.
From 2003-2005, the organization held monthly readings at Writers & Books.
All the figures are indexes, based on the average of monthly readings in 1985 equaling 100.
"It's getting warmer," explained the Rev. Susan B. W. Johnson, who helps organize the monthly readings.
For the past four years, Sarah Brown, the editor of the collection, has been holding monthly readings of cringe-worthy adolescent work in Brooklyn.
In the Swedish case a Government mandate for monthly readings has initiated a country-wide rollout of meters.
Each of the twelve volumes corresponds to a certain month (hence, the name chet'yi-minei or monthly readings, from the Greek word menaion) and subdivided into days.
A November decline would represent the fifth straight monthly negative reading in the index.
With the Tacoma Arts Commission, she will organize a series of monthly readings and performances that pair well-known and local poets.