In this course, we will read works by several of the acknowledged American masters of the short story form from the second half of the twentieth century through the present time.  Writers include Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Anne Beatty, and George Saunders. 

Daniel Schenker is a graduate of Brandeis University and has advanced degrees in English and American Literature from Johns Hopkins University.  For thirty years he taught a wide range of literature courses at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, from which he also holds a degree in Spanish. He has written scholarly essays and short stories, and in 2022 published an historical novel, Confessions of a Marrano Rocketeer (Black Rose Writing). He keeps a vegetable garden and enjoys hiking in the Berkshires and in his native upstate New York.

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