During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world.

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation

A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America's finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.

Writers write—but what do they do for money? In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that

Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the