In art it's simply compulsory now and most aspriring "serious" writers I know are in a program. In my view network effects are much stronger in these worlds than in say maths or even regular humanities so it's vital to get into a good program (ಥ﹏ಥ)
People never write about MFA world but for hating on it, and generally it does all seem a bit poncy. How does the creative writing masters survive? https://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree …
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privilege, desperation, and ignorance?
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c.f. Junot Diaz, "part of it was I didn’t know I had other options" https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mfa-vs-poc …
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I think if you are white and want to part of the 'people of letter' mfas are great. But why would you write to say, hey this was great? Who would commission whose articles? Also how many successful authors credit mfrs - lots. These critical articles are not the entire pop
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Yeah I did think that maybe there’s just a disparity in who writes about it. That said, in philosophy we get about equal “this degree wasted my life!” and “western civilisation needs more people to take this degree/it’s the reason I’m a tech gajillionaire” popular articles on us.
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I love this piece but the book about MFA world she's reviewing is actually also very good and explains why. Roughly, if you think middlebrow isn't an inherently cursed category, MFA world basically works
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