IMF 51655 Fiction: Short Story Collections L

Instructor

Kali VanBaale

Class Type

Literature

Course Description

This course will examine the literary form of the short story collection by examining three short story master writers—Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus, and Birds of America by Lorrie Moore. We’ll discuss each individual story in the collections, and then the body of the collection as a whole—what unifies the collections beyond the individual author, how the collections were put together in their story order, and what story the collections tell as a whole. And finally, we’ll get into the finer details of constructing short story collections from number of stories, to titles, to choosing stories for your own collection.