MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction [Kindle Edition] Author: Chad Harbach | Language: English | ISBN:
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Writers write—but what do they do for money?
In a widely read essay entitled “MFA vs NYC,” bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors, publicists, and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. Should you seek an advanced degree, or will workshops smother your style? Do you need to move to New York, or will the high cost of living undo you? What’s worse—having a day job or not having health insurance? How do agents decide what to represent? Will Big Publishing survive? How has the rise of MFA programs affected American fiction? The expert contributors, including George Saunders, Elif Batuman, and Fredric Jameson, consider all these questions and more, with humor and rigor. MFA vs NYC is a must-read for aspiring writers, and for anyone interested in the present and future of American letters.
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- File Size: 540 KB
- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: n+1 (February 25, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FIL9BV0
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These are essays about what the lived life of writers is all about, old territory for some but revelatory for others. As you read these essays, you will annotate them in your head as you go along - it took me quite a while to read this book since I had to frequently set the book in my lap and talk aloud to myself in dialogue with the essayistic points the authors were making.
a few takeaways:
--writing is suffering from an image of "only something the young do." Like most lit mags these days, you need to make allowances for the cutesy references to loving This American Life, being "totally alienated all through high school" (most barftastic theme ever), and all the other "I'm a Millennial!" signposts.
--Elif Batuman's essay is pretty devastating toward MFA culture and she is hands down the best writer ever associated with this magazine. I went to the tenth issue party and Keith's opening sentence was, "Elif Batuman can't be here tonight, sorry, I know this event sucks now, sorry about that."
--surprised no one mentions John Gardner, the proponent of the "fictional dream."
--writing is commercial and a life's work all at the same time
--these essays basically cry out for the conservative point of view, that some maturity and life wisdom count for something, since neither MFA or NYC siders seem very happy. Word to the wise: if you are ever reading something that resolves itself with a shrug like many of these essays do, remember that there is another point of view out there.
--either you get it, or you don't
Good read that will reconfirm your hopes/fears and that's a good thing.
By John Leighton
Um, if you think that American Fiction has split into "two cultures--MFA versus NYC" then, frankly, you REALLY need to get out more and live, think, write, and share with far more depth, breadth, diversity, and ebullience. American fiction TEAMS with so many tributaries of theme, form, style, emphasis, genre, and voice outside of MFA programs and NYC that only a snobby, deluded magazine/outfit like n+1 headed by men whose rich families bought their influence and who used money and position to ensconce themselves with a literary pedigree could have produced this solipsistic death call to the very trumped up false dichotomy (MFA vs NYC) referenced in this anthology's ludicrous title. This is a very embarrassing book for any body who is truly writing with a broad, rich understanding. I mean, REALLY: it's like what a lot of Brooklyn, NY has become…a myopic world of insular people who only think that a particular, segregated slice of NYC (replete with a saturation of sycophants with MFAs) is the be all and end all of their lives...
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