/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9161069]

How do we feel about creative writing MFAs, /lit/? Destroying artistic integrity, or helping it?

[Anonymous No.9161074]

it is for nü male beta cucks

[Anonymous No.9161090]

DFW went. Granted he hated it...

[Anonymous No.9161104]

>>9161069
definitely for faggots
we feel bad about it

[Anonymous No.9161324]

serves no practical use at all, but a lot of agents and publisher will at least give your shit a second look if you say you have an mfa, for some reason.

[Anonymous No.9161562]

Painters go to school to learn to paint.
Musicians go to school to learn to music.
Writers should do the same.

Some painting programs kill off an spark of creativity or joy in the student, but this doesn't negate the legitimacy of painting school.

One things that happens with MFA's in writing, music, painting or whatever, there is a certain group of people who are really good at school and maybe really good at creating technically sound works that the professor and the class love, but they will never make great or even good art.

[Anonymous No.9161574]

All I can tell you is that I haven't read anything good that's been written by someone with a MFA.

[Anonymous No.9161582]

>>9161562

spoken like a truly uncreative person who hasn't even finished a full semester in college so far.

[Anonymous No.9161594]

>>9161574
George Saunders? Michael Chabon? DFW? Mark Strand? Raymond Carver?

[Anonymous No.9161599]

>>9161582
Sounds like a tryhard /pol/tard making baseless assumptions

[Anonymous No.9161672]

>>9161594

Normally I welcome recommendations, but with the guy who wrote Infinite Jest in there, I think I'll pass.

[Anonymous No.9161682]

>american ''''''''''''''''education''''''''''''''''''''

[Anonymous No.9161921]

>if MFAs rendered 'EM-fuzz' then

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