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Summer is at its peak, and I’ve given myself over to it. Partly, this is a matter of being the person who takes my teenagers (not yet drivers) to all of their practices, scrimmages, meets, games, sleepovers, friends’ houses, etc. Part of it is that the new novel has overtaken my imagination, and in the [...]

You’d think an article subtitled Should Creative Writing Be Taught? would offer some useful assessment of this question. But Louis Menand’s article in The New Yorker’s summer fiction issue doesn’t. After evaluating Mark McGurl’s The Program Era (Harvard, 2009) about the effect of creative-writing programs on American fiction, Menand leaves his article’s subhead entirely unanswered.
After [...]