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The LitBlog Coop announces its spring 2007 Read This! pick today: Alan DeNiro’s debut short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. I was the nominator, so…

Ephemera from a research project: – The Best American Short Stories anthology debuted in 1915. – Early favorites of the Best American Short Stories series included Fannie Hurst, Sherwood Anderson…

Say hello to the debut issue of Hot Metal Bridge! The new literary magazine edited by MFA students at Pitt launches today; I’ve been crouched behind, working to chuck it…

In class, one of the younger grad students — who is, on the whole, smart, kind and hardworking — was giving feedback that seemed off (circa 1972, a father wouldn’t…

The eternal MFA question has cropped up in a couple of places and I can’t confine my comments to comments. So here goes. I went to AWP. I’m in a…

Michael Chabon is the most illustrious Pitt writing program alumnus; perhaps that’s why none of us expected him to stop by campus. Until we got the secret, hush-hush news that…

So Confused Student writes in to Salon’s advice columnist, Cary Tennis, with an old-syle (Mr. Blue, advice for writers and the lovelorn) question. The upshot: grad school is no fun,…

Consider this a quiet announcement of Hot Metal Bridge, the new literary magazine from the University of Pittsburgh MFA students in creative writing. Uh, yeah, that would include me. You…

Here at Pitt we’re looking for a new fiction professor; a huge pack of candidates has been narrowed down to finalists. I don’t know the specifics of what I’m allowed…

I mean, should we be forced to take LitCrit classes? (via). We should, I think. Not that we have to like them. See, my brain works better if I have…