/lit/ - Literature

>>10882022
Please, provide an example of this. I want to learn more about these books the college kids are reading as part of 100-level literature courses that were written in a vacuum and had no influence on later authors.

>>7347683
A good friend and professor of mine used to teach at a few well-regarded MFA programs. He says it's pretty much a crapshoot whether I'd get anything out of it and says that I'd probably get more mileage out of just writing and meeting people at conferences. I'm applying to Breadloaf and a few similar short programs along the same lines at his behest, but skipping the MFA circus this year.

There's definitely an MFA culture, but it's mostly pretty mediocre at best and most people who do them don't make it big.

>>7203557
Tricky call actually.
Patrician traits
>dad has PhD and works in his field
>extremely wealthy
>family travels extensively
>parents are both bilingual
>encouraged me to read mostly patrician books as young as possible

Pleb traits
>American fundamentalist Christians
>hardline republican partisians
>haven't read quality fiction since college

My grandmother is the real patrician. She studied biology back in the 50s and we have amazing discussions about the stuff I studied in college. She reads up to date books on neuroscience and is halfway through Mason and Dixon just because I told her it was my favorite novel.

>>7197922
>implying even 50% of adults possess those traits.

>>7184313
claiming geli

i know, i know, thats not actually geli