About the MFA programs, I know nothing. I would suspect that a literature defined in terms of what twenty year olds can understand and produce will not amount to much.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 8:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Q for English majors/teachers
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Can anyone point me to some good writing on the short story genre?
I'm not sure what perspective you're looking for. But I thought this was great from a sociology of literature POV. I learned a lot:
http://www.slate.com/id/2275733/
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