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6771514 No.6771514 [Reply] [Original]

What is it about American writers that make them so fucking cancerous?

Is it the American culture in general that is to blame?

>> No.6771516

The MFA basically killed American literature.

>> No.6771535

>>6771516
How?

>> No.6771540

>>6771516
This. Anyone who disagrees is a sucker.

>> No.6771555

>>6771514
The fact that they shitpost the same exact thread over and over again.

Oh wait, that's yuropoors.

>> No.6771558

>>6771516
I disagree

>> No.6771559

>>6771540
How so?

>> No.6771560

>>6771514
why are author portraits unilaterally awful

>> No.6771587

>>6771516
Please explain.
If the potential for good or great writers existed prior to the MFA, then wouldn't they continue to exist outside the MFA programs?
I'm arguing this under the assumption that american writers are cancerous/shit, I just think there is a better explanation.

>> No.6771589

>>6771535
Writing became a science instead of an art.

>> No.6771593

You mad this thread two days ago. Fuck off to /brit/

>> No.6771607

>reposting shit

check em though OP

>> No.6771676
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>>6771516
Ridiculous. The MFA is just a meat-market for agents and a teaching credential for writers. Might as well claim writers being friends with other writers ruined American literature.

>> No.6771687

>>6771589
Explain further

>> No.6771694

>>6771589
>clearly has never dealt with the highly irregular experience of upper level writing workshops
Come on negro, I don't even think it's true, but I know there's a better argument for it than that.

>> No.6772186

lol @ America

>> No.6772240

>>6771589
the best art has basis in science imho

>> No.6772275

>>6771676

MFAs are responsible for flooding the market with utter dogshit. 'Ruined' is a completely subjective term, but you can't deny they've made the scene so, so much worse.