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    Suggestions for new MFA discourses.

    Jessie Gaynor

    October 13, 2021, 12:45pm

    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.

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