June 29, 2005

Elizabeth, You Ignorant Slut...

A few days ago, I linked to Elizabeth Clementson's attack on MFA programs.

Now writer Steve Almond responds to Elizabeth with a full-spectrum fisking. (It's down the left-side of the main Moby page.)

Almond makes his distaste for Clementson and her ilk abundantly clear. As for the defense of the institution of the MFA and its value to aspiring writers, I'll leave it to you to decide whether his faint praise is sufficiently damning. I'm starting to think that spending your MFA money on seventy months' rent instead might be the wiser course...

Posted by Dr. Frank at June 29, 2005 04:22 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Your link to the main moby page doesn't work.

Posted by: Amy 80 at June 29, 2005 07:31 PM

Amy: thanks, sorry, and fixed.

Posted by: Dr. Frank at June 29, 2005 07:35 PM

man, that steve almond guy can't write. he can't argue worth a damn either. maybe clementson is right and maybe she's wrong (i'm leading toward the former), but almond's article does more to discredit grad school than clementson does.

Posted by: r.mutt at July 6, 2005 12:56 AM

by the way frank, there's still an extra quotation mark at the end of yr first link in this entry.

Posted by: A.R.E. Mutt at July 6, 2005 12:58 AM