Suggestions for new MFA discourses.
Look, we were all waiting for a new discourse to come around and knock Bad Art Friend off its surprisingly sturdy pedestal, but personally, I was hoping for something slightly more interesting than Should MFA Programs Teach You How to Actually Sell Your Book: Electric Boo(k)galoo: A New Hope for the Discourse: The Squeakquel: 2Slow2Repetitive (okay, there was a brief foray into Sally Rooney/Israel, not to be confused with Sally Rooney/bucket hat).
I get it: we’ll never stop Discoursing about MFAs. But could we at least pick a new discourse? Here, I have some suggestions:
• MFA vs. BBL
• JoHn AsHbErY?
• What shall we bring to the Wednesday potluck?
• BEST FONT!!!
• Exercise or cigarettes?
• Ben’s visiting friend: hot or just tall?
• Is talent sexually communicable?
• Is sex writing?
• Is poem?
• Why does that one guy always wear that hat?
• DIVORCE!!!
• Printer privilege.
Discuss.
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.



















