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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Here’s a wonderful new blog…

…which I’m about to add to my blogroll: More Perfect. Hana Schank’s a terrific writer - funny, charming, many good things. Scroll down past the baby to read her take on the Mark Slouka/Columbia MFA dustup -- an event for which I’m now grateful, since it led me to her blog.

An excerpt:

While I wouldn't go so far as to say that people in the program were functionally illiterate, I would say that a high percentage of students had no clue what they were doing in the program. They were experimenting. They were killing time. They were playing.