November 12, 2016
This is the second in a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I’ve been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it’s because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where discourse still seems effective, desired, and open. Rather than a bubble ignorant of the rest of America, the classroom provides a space for America to be what ...
November 11, 2016
This is the first of possibly a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I've been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it's because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where discourse still seems effective, desired, and open. Rather than a bubble ignorant of the rest of America, the classroom provides a space for America to ...
November 07, 2016
I've written here before about culture and craft, but have been thinking about the ways genres are classified. I just took my comprehensive exams, and a large part of the fiction exam revolved around genres. Some thoughts below, in part one of something new.
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1. In The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera says ...
October 28, 2016
Today we share a sneak preview of our upcoming issue. Enjoy!
Lerner and His Firefly
Mark Halliday
On The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
There must have been a moment when an editor at FSG said to Ben Lerner, in an email or maybe in the old face-to-face modality, “How about if we publish your essay ‘The Hatred of Poetry’ as a small book!” (Let’s assume, for Lerner’s sake, that the idea ...
