Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / Literature


The courses listed below, in the general area of literature, are currently offered at Quest.

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ALL THE KING’S MEN

Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler

Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men is one of American literature’s greatest political novels.

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

Contemporary Poetry explores some of the most heralded and talented poets of the 21st century.

DAISY MILLER & WASHINGTON SQUARE

Coordinators: Patricia Geehr, Susan Keohane

Henry James was a 19th century American writer, a major figure in the history of the novel, and a master craftsman in the development of his recurring themes.

WONDERFUL BOOKS OUT LOUD

Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein Larry Shapiro, Ruth Ward

O Pioneers! was Willa Cather’s first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier — and the transformation of the people who settled it.