Course Schedule – Fall 2023 / Literature
The courses listed below, in the general area of literature, are currently offered at Quest.
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BOOKS OUT LOUD A
Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein Larry Shapiro, Ruth Ward
In this class, participants will have the pleasure of reading out loud and discussing Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
BOOKS OUT LOUD B
Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein Larry Shapiro, Ruth Ward
In this class, participants will have the pleasure of reading out loud and discussing Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES
Coordinators: Nancy Richardson, Mary Buchwald, Frieda Lipp
This long-running class discusses short stories from all over the world.
CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Coordinators: Ellen Rittberg, Martha Drezin, Mary Ann Donnelly, Frieda Lipp
This course covers poets currently producing compelling poetry as well as poets from the latter part of the 20th century.
THE GREAT GATSBY
Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, written a century ago, has long since been revered as an American classic.
THE SCARLET LETTER
Coordinators: Patricia Geehr, Arlene Curinga, Susan Keohane
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer was born into an established old New England family.
TONI MORRISON: THE LEGEND
Coordinators: Donna Ramer, Sheryl Harawitz, Tamara Weinberg
Through two of her books — Jazz and Song of Solomon — we’ll traverse Toni Morrison’s winding road into African mythology and mysticism, race and racism, the legacy of slavery, relationships, love and desire, violence and trauma that are a critical path as her characters search for identity.