More Short Fiction from "The New Yorker" Archive (Zoom)
Winter (14+ hours) | Available (Membership Required)
The New Yorker has played a prominent role in the development and fostering of literary short fiction in America and beyond. The magazine has created a searchable digital archive, which includes all of the fiction published in the magazine since its inception in 1925, a vast treasure trove of short stories. Over time, the magazine and its fiction editors have had a profound effect in shaping what a short story could be. Numerous famous and upcoming writers have published short stories in the magazine. Many of these writers became important novelists, but continued to produce short stories, often published in The New Yorker.
This online Zoom class will meet weekly for eight weeks. The format will be the same as in prior offerings of this course, but we will be reading a new selection of stories. Two or three short stories selected from The New Yorker digital archive will be assigned each week to be read as homework and discussed at length in class. The selected stories will be available for reading or printing from the course’s Google Drive folder.
This course will consist of discussions between the Study Leader and participants.
- There are no required books for this course.
Terrance Darcey
Terrance Darcey, PhD, retired from Dartmouth and DHMC in 2015. During his career, he did academic work including research and teaching in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. He is spending his retirement catching up on things he missed in his work life, including creative writing, literature, arts, and music. He and his wife Banisa live in East Thetford, VT.