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An Interview with Mark McGurl

An Interview with Mark McGurl M A R K M C G U R L Ved Chirayath an interview with MARK MCGURL Conducted by Jeffrey J. Williams erhaps the most significant development in contemporary American literature has been the rise of creative writing programs. The first program was founded at the University of Iowa in 1936, and they have multiplied since the 1960s, as U.S. universities expanded, numbering more than three hundred by 2000. Before World War II, most writers worked in journalism or other jobs, whereas by the latter part of the century, most had significant connections with creative writing programs. This change has prompted complaints that contemporary writing has become too routinized and that writers have only a small world to portray, as they spend much of their time in academe. In his book The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard, 2009), Mark McGurl debunks that commonplace, arguing that the expansion of the American university system has fostered generally good conditions for writers and precipitated a remarkable flourishing of fiction. The book has quickly become a standard in the field, and it received the 2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Born in 1966, McGurl attended http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

An Interview with Mark McGurl

Contemporary Literature , Volume 57 (2) – Sep 12, 2016
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M A R K M C G U R L Ved Chirayath an interview with MARK MCGURL Conducted by Jeffrey J. Williams erhaps the most significant development in contemporary American literature has been the rise of creative writing programs. The first program was founded at the University of Iowa in 1936, and they have multiplied since the 1960s, as U.S. universities expanded, numbering more than three hundred by 2000. Before World War II, most writers worked in journalism or other jobs, whereas by the latter part of the century, most had significant connections with creative writing programs. This change has prompted complaints that contemporary writing has become too routinized and that writers have only a small world to portray, as they spend much of their time in academe. In his book The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard, 2009), Mark McGurl debunks that commonplace, arguing that the expansion of the American university system has fostered generally good conditions for writers and precipitated a remarkable flourishing of fiction. The book has quickly become a standard in the field, and it received the 2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Born in 1966, McGurl attended

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