MFA vs NYC Archives - The Rumpus

Other

This Ain’t a Zine It’s an Arms Race

Die publishing industry; zines forever! Liska Jakobs reports live from last weekend’s LA Zine Fest, where DIY publishing continues to flourish even as the contradictions of modern capitalism reveal themselves: You don’t…

Read

Read

MFA vs. SNL

The best writers learn their craft in unexpected places, even from the foot of an improv stage.

Read

Other

An Ideal MFA

How would a writer without an MFA imagine an ideal Creative Writing degree program? Over at Ploughshares, Rebecca Makkai invites you to consider her optimal 2015/2016 course catalog, warning that…

Read

Other

Literature vs. NYC

Independent publishers are producing literature, Chris Fischbach writes in the Virginia Quarterly Review, which is not the same thing as what commercial publishers are printing. Fischbach (a publisher at Coffee House…

Read

Read

The Rumpus Interview with Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach sits down to talk about MFA vs NYC and its ongoing debate, co-founding the literary magazine n+1, and the intuitive process behind looking at your own work.

Read

Read

MFA vs NYC edited by Chad Harbach

Ben Pfeiffer reviews MFA VS NYC, edited by Chad Harbach, today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.

Read

Other

The Eternal Question: To MFA or Not?

Writers who are currently trying to decide whether an MFA is right for them will find that the questions being raised today are not unlike those addressed by Flannery O’Connor:…

Read

Other

You’re Jonathan Franzen or You’re Nobody

“I write because I’ve always wanted to know what bankruptcy feels like.” John Winters gives his sobering reaction to the hotly debated “MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American…

Read

Keep in Touch

The Rumpus in your Inbox!