American Short Stories
We will discuss two stories each session, with selections from the text. The series editor, Katrina Kenison, says of the late John Updike’s story choices: “No other writer, editor, or critic . . . could have performed this task with such acumen and devotion to his fellow writers. He has done us all, readers and writers alike, a great service.”
Marjorie Podolsky is a retired senior lecturer in English from Penn State--Behrend College, where she taught writing and literature courses and published academic articles for Salem Press. She is an active volunteer in the literary, music, and arts community in Erie and a member of two writing groups. The Springhill Writing Group, which she facilitates, recently published a chapbook of their writing, In Our Own Words.
