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Tag Archives: MFA programs
Literary Boroughs #54: Boston, MA (Part 1)
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged 826 Boston, AGNI, Boston Review, Brattle Book Shop, Commonwealth Books, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Lehane, DeWitt Henry, Grolier Poetry Shop, Grub Street, Harvard Review, Henry David Throreau, Henry James, Infinite Jest, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, MFA programs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nick Flynn, Post Road, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Raven Used Books, Redivider, Robert Frost, Robert Parker, Salamander, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Bostonians, The Scarlet Letter, Trident Booksellers, Walden
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How to Leave School (Without Leaving Your Writing Behind)
At the risk of sounding like a John Mayer song, I’ve never believed in the real world. Or rather, I’ve never believed in the non-real world, some supposed realm that acts as a cozy womb for practitioners of glorified hobbies, … Continue reading
Posted in Ploughshares Bloggers, Uncategorized
Tagged advice, fiction, MFA programs, PhD programs, poetry, writing
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Reality TV for Writers
Oh, television (they sighed collectively). Enemy of productivity, demise of the would-be genius. “Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest,” we cry, “some Cromwell ruined by The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” But why, then, have I learned almost as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, AWP, Big Brother, MFA programs, Michael Chabon, Michael Kors, Project Runway, Reality TV, Top Chef, Work of Art
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Literary Boroughs #50: Cleveland, OH
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Story, American Splendor, Andy Borowitz, Brews and Prose, Cleveland, Crooked River Burning, CSU Poetry Center, Dan Chaon, Dave Lucas, Hart Crane, Harvey Pekar, Jean Shepherd, Langston Hughes, Lena Dunham, Literary Boroughs, Mark Winegardner, MFA programs, Northeast Ohio MFA, Ohio City Writers, Salvatore Scibona, Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, Whiskey Island Review
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Literary Boroughs #49: New Orleans, LA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, Colum McCann, Gertrude Stein, Herbert Asbury, Jack Kerouac, John Kennedy Toole, Kate Chopin, Literary Boroughs, Loyola University, Mark Twain, MFA programs, Nelson Algren, New Orleans, NOCCA, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston
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Literary Boroughs #47: Seattle, WA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Moon, Boeing, Bumbershoot, Charles Burns, David Shields, Elliott Bay Book Company, Jonathan Raban, Literary Boroughs, Maria Semple, MFA programs, Michael Byers, Microsoft, Nirvana, Octavia Butler, Open Books, Pike Place Market, Poetry Northwest, Richard Hugo, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Sherman Alexie, The Central Library, Theodore Roethke, Tom Robbins, University of Washington
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Literary Boroughs #42: St. Louis, MO
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Jonathan Franzen, Kate Chopin, Left Bank Books, Lindenwood University, Literary Boroughs, Mark Twain, Meshuggah Cafe, MFA programs, River Styx, St. Louis, St. Louis Literary Award, Stanley Elkin, T.S. Eliot, The Corrections, The Mud House, The Twenty-Seventh City, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Washington University, Webster University
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Literary Boroughs #39: Oneonta, NY
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Alice Lichtenstein, Fence, George Saunders, Ginnah Howard, Green Toad Bookstore, Harpur Palate, Hartwick College, James Fenimore Cooper, John Burroughs, Last of the Mohicans, Lauren Groff, Literary Boroughs, Mermer Blakeslee, MFA programs, Michael Blaine, Oneonta, Pee Wee Herman, Popeck's Used and Rare Books, Rose and Laurel Bookshop, SUNY Oneonta, The Desperate Season
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Literary Boroughs #38: Pittsburgh, PA
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Literary Boroughs #37: Baltimore, MD
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Tyler, Baltimore, Benjamin Button, David Simon, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Goucher College, H.L. Mencken, John Waters, Johns Hopkins University, Literary Boroughs, MFA programs, Normal's Books and Music, One World, Publishing Genius Press, The Ivy, The Wire, University of Baltimore, University of Maryland
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