Writers have always learned the craft by studying the works of masters.  In this class, a craft class, we will do just that, learn from masters by reading literature through the lens of the writer—how to steal, borrow, adapt, grow, and above all how to take apart a story to learn from how it was made.  We will be looking at great literary models (Anton Chekhov, Alice Munro, William Trevor, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, Grace Paley, Tommy Orange, and others) to study and dissect how they achieve mastery of character, sentence structure, of point of view, of telling detail, of the plot.  We will read one story per week, reading them line by line, paragraph by paragraph to understand how different techniques of craft are employed while also exploring the most enduring literary voices of our time.   

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