Anton Chekhov, Steven Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, among others, contributed to the birth of modern short fiction in the late days of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century. Our focus is on more recent great contributors to the genre. We'll read and discuss the stories by Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Steven Millhauser, and George Saunders.
A leitmotiv of our SDG will be the development of the short story. How has it evolved, thematically as well as stylistically? What new themes have emerged? In what sense do writers challenge and learn from one another?
