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		<title>When To Get Your MFA Or Not - Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Chee delivers part 2 of his series on the MFA. Highlights include how Joy Williams prepared for workshop, and a summary of his application manuscript, plus the story's three morals. ]]></description>
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		<title>When To Get Your MFA. Or Not.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In college, Alexander Chee had two writing teachers with opposing views of the MFA: Annie Dillard urged him to go right away, and Kit Reed said don't go, in fact never go, get a job, preferably a magazine job, and just write.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Must the Novel Be Boring?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern fiction's painful obsession with pain.]]></description>
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