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Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree · LRB 23 September 2010

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I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from...

Vol. 32 No. 18 · 23 September 2010 Get a Real Degree Elif Batuman Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 8208 words The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl . Harvard, 480 pp., £25.95, April 2009, 978 0 674 03319 1 Show More Show More T he world of letters: does such a thing still exist? Even within the seemingly homogeneous sphere of the university English department, a schism has opened up between literary scholarship and creative writing: disciplines which differ in their points of reference (Samuel Richardson v. Jhumpa Lahiri),

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