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There, in the limpid water

from a high promontory, hurled their cloaks and pots into the sea

Think of the encomia of European intellectuals like Sartre and Beauvoir to the great American writers who didn’t teach, didn’t go to school, but worked as truck drivers, bartenders, nightwatchmen, stevedores, anything but intellectuals

One purpose of this book, then, is to offer a more multifarious and nuanced view of the MFA program than has previously been offered

“MFA writing” is supposed to be sedulous, dutiful, and uninspired.