The Rumpus Interview with Greg Baxter
Novelist Greg Baxter talks about living abroad as an American, writing his new book, Munich Airport, and why he doesn’t buy the defeatist clichés that people use to define our world and time.
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Posts Tagged: writing programs
Low-Res Forever
Maggie Messitt writes a defense of low-residency MFA programs: These are my people. And, because we have always lived away from one another, we learned from the start that writing is solitary, but we have each other. And, as a community, there was an overriding sense that your success is not my failure, rather your […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Adrift
Carefree days of sunbathing topless and reading Salinger comes to an abrupt turning point when the young Serber must choose between starting a writing program she’s dreamed of vs. playing house–and playing it safe–on her lover’s sailboat.
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