| Art Versus the Academy: An Email Debate John Haber, Danyll Wills, Andrew Towne, and Christopher Bernard |
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Download essay in rtf format This past May I found a review of Mark McGurl's new book, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, in a recent issue of The New Criterion that so well reflected my experience of creative writing programs and the writers that emerge from them~to say nothing of writers workshops and writers groups and what might be called the collectivization of writing~that I sent along a link to it to a number of my literary colleagues. The responses, especially one series that turned into a very long thread of emails dashed off between more urgent tasks, proved so engaging, for myself at least, that I thought it might prove of some use to make them public. So, below, with some mostly minor |
editing and fixes, you will find most of the emails of that exchange, leaving out only a few brief replies that were erased early on. The principal emailers were the New York-based art critic and theorist John Haber; composer, writer, and theorist Andrew Towne (San Diego); China scholar and writer on technology (part American, part English; now based in Hong Kong) Danyll Wills; and myself. ~Christopher Bernard
The Exchange Hello my fellow writers and others concerned with the state of modern language and letters,  |
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