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The Seamy Side of MFAs
All right, here’s a hoary old subject that has been done to death: MFA programs — are they valid? The most recent incarnation of this question has been brought to you courtesy of Lionel Shriver, who tells Big Think that, despite having gone through an MFA program herself, and having had what appears to have [… Read More]
Abandoned Shack, Partly Cloudy
Oh, my poor, neglected blog. Would you believe that they actually give us a fair amount of work here? This past week should go down in history… Before it even began, I had dubbed it “Hell Week” thanks to a week-long workshop with Distinguished Visiting Writer Steve Almond, held every evening for two and a [… Read More]
Kamiak Butte
Turned in my new story. And actually, I’m heading out to turn the same story in again, this time as a writing sample to get into a class taught by Steve Almond. I’m pretty excited about it (the class, not the story. I have mixed feelings about the story.). So now maybe I have a [… Read More]
Rustic Landscape
View from the MFA kickoff party on Saturday. I’m taking a class this semester on Gothic literature in the 19th Century, and the professor was talking the other day about the picturesque as a Gothic trope. The word is nowadays in such common use that it feels banal, but it’s interesting to think that it [… Read More]
Border Crossing
I’ve lived most of my life in Providence, RI, where we used to joke that you couldn’t go to the movies without leaving the state. Rhode Island, after all, is the littlest state in the union, and so it is necessarily cozy with its neighbors. When I made the decision to move out west for [… Read More]