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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.

in performing these ablutions she unburdened herself of the other Charlotte Hauser, the one the boys from Baxter had despised.

Her eyes sifted among the crowd inevitably toward his own, which Aziz imagined fulminating like stars, and broke there, resting on him very lightly