The MFA in a Box Blog

Last Waltz (10.05.11)

Another Graduation Speech (09.27.11)

Graduation Speech (09.19.11)

The Shape of Things to Come (09.13.11)

Cleaning Out the Files (09.06.11)

The End of the Blog As We Know It (08.29.11)

Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Literal Kit Bag (08.22.11)

On Not Going to a Reunion (08.15.11)

Kids These Days (08.08.11)

Writing and the Unconscious (08.01.11)

Writing, Morality, Mortality, Psychopathy (07.25.11)

Unto the Third and Fourth Generations (07.18.11)

Truth, Beauty, and Justice (07.11.11)

You Can’t Have A Future Without A Here and Now (7.5.11)

Writing in a Bad Environment, Take Two (6.28.11)

Writing in a Bad Environment (06.20.11)

Writing and the Puritan Impulse (06.13.11)

Writing Politics (06.06.11)

Handling the Headlines (05.30.11)

The Unconscious and Me (and You) (05.23.11)

The Grieving Raging Dark Place (05.16.11)

Writing and Aging (05.09.11)

The Confidence Demon (05.02.11)

Our Bad (04.25.11)

Getting to Depth on Subsequent Attempts (04.18.11)

See If They Stick (04.11.11)

The Way We Live Now (04.04.11)

Fiction and Antiquarianism (03.28.11)

Getting to Depth With Poetry (03.21.11)

Narcissism and Depth (03.14.11)

Your Co-Author (03.07.11)

The Engine of Narrative (02.28.11)

A Short Meditation on a Long Beach Book (02.21.11)

Citizenship and Fitness (02.14.11)

A Writer’s Meta-Narrative (02.07.11)

Back from Vietnam (01.31.11)

A Writer’s Booklist (01.24.11)

Be Careful When You’re Writing about Evil (01.17.11)

Going with the Flow of Your Reader’s Early Training (01.10.11)

Tidal Rhythms (01.03.11)

The Wannabe Writer (12.27.10)

When Metaphors Go Bad It’s Because (12.20.10)

You Don’t Have to Kill Everybody Off (12.13.10)

Drafting and Editing (12.06.10)

Writing The Dark Past (11.29.10)

Memoir As Archaeology (11.22.10)

Off to Vietnam (11.15.10)

Characters Are People, Too (11.8.10)

The One-Page Autobiography (11.1.10)

Getting the Most From Your Workshop (10.25.10)

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