Creative writing MFAs — the fetishization of technique?
“All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books!” Elif Batuman takes on creative writing programs in the latest London Review of Books. (See also.) Batuman’s blog is a delight.
“All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books!” Elif Batuman takes on creative writing programs in the latest London Review of Books. (See also.) Batuman’s blog is a delight.
Biographer James Campbell calls for a fully annotated edition of James Baldwin’s correspondence.
My Cracker Barrel ornament story will be included in the Significant Objects book, forthcoming next year from Fantagraphics.
“To read William Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future,” says Scarlett Thomas, because “the present is becoming the future faster than it is becoming the past.”
William Boyd visits Elizabeth Bishop’s home(s) in Brazil, and reflects on her poetry and alcoholism, and her love for self-taught architect Lota Soares. (Via.)