Course Catalog

ZOOM: Six American Short Story Masters

**This class will be taught on Zoom**

We explore the short story form by diving into the work of six of the finest American short story writers of the postwar years. Each week we will focus on the output of a single writer, reading three of his/her stories and exploring the sources and particularities of that storyteller’s distinctive narratives style and thematic concerns. Some of these writers, like Eudora Welty and John Cheever, we have touched on in previous sessions. Others, like Mary McCarthy and John O’Hara, are unjustly neglected by many readers today. Stories will be provided electronically by the instructor and participants should read the assigned stories in advance of each class. There is no prerequisite.

Week by Week Outline (If course is accepted, this will be included in the course catalog.)

Wk 1: John O’Hara

Wk 2: Eudora Welty

Wk 3: John Cheever

Wk 4: Mary McCarthy

Wk 5: Bernard Malamud

Wk 6: Elizabeth Spencer

This class is not available at this time.

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