Archive for September, 2010

Jim Shepard, editor

Jim Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and Project X, guest-edited the fall issue of Ploughshares. (Via.)

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Columbia MFA students: the crème de la crème?

A professor emails her old MFA students in South Carolina to tell them how intellectually superior the new ones at Columbia are. I dunno. Columbia has graduated many outstanding writers but also, one professor contends, some demonstrably terrible ones.

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2010 in genius grants

Yes! Wire creator David Simon has, alongside Annette Gordon-Reed, David Cromer, and Yiyun Li, been awarded a MacArthur (genius) grant. My pal Balk and I duel at sundown.

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