I think that in a prior e-mail U said the reading was to be about Faulkner. Isn’t he from Mississippi? Was Tennessee Williams from New Orleans? New Orleans is an interesting city and I hope that U will be able to see some of the attractions there. It is a very colorful place, however, I like San Francisco much better, tho.
This critique of The 3 A.M. Epiphany, and attached Q&A, sums up my general views about the teaching of fiction writing, and how it might be improved.
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Mark McGurl read this review of The Program Era to the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2011. I now find its Blakean hyperbole extremely embarrassing.
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And this is me being funny, for McSweeney's. My open letter to dead authors has been shared 1,400 times so far.
I think that in a prior e-mail U said the reading was to be about Faulkner. Isn’t he from Mississippi? Was Tennessee Williams from New Orleans? New Orleans is an interesting city and I hope that U will be able to see some of the attractions there. It is a very colorful place, however, I like San Francisco much better, tho.