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Elif Batuman, 23 September 2010
The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
by Mark McGurl.
Harvard, 480 pp., £25.95, April 2009,978 0 674 03319 1 Show More
by Mark McGurl.
Harvard, 480 pp., £25.95, April 2009,
“... scholarship and creative writing: disciplines which differ in their points of reference (Samuel Richardson v. Jhumpa Lahiri), the graduate degrees they award (Doctor of Philosophy v. Master of Fine Arts) and their perceived objects of study (‘literature’ v. ‘fiction’). Mark McGurl’s The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative ... ”