A Drama
By Donald Margulies
March 10-18 2023
Collected Stories confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. The women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth’s experiences, to wit her youthful, shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz.