Literature & Writing

Founded in 1925, the New Yorker magazine has been the wellspring of the American short story. The magazine’s current fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, has selected 78 stories by the country’s greatest fiction writers and compiled them in one volume titled A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker, 1925-2025. In this six-session course we’ll read and discuss 12 of these stories, ranging across the decades. Along the way we’ll learn about such basic fictional techniques as point of view, setting, plot and character development, dialogue, symbolism, and metaphorical language. Instructor: George Clack. Meets alternate weeks. No class 11/28.