Still more on Freed

Having started covering Lynn Freed's article in the July Harper's about the "creative writing gulag," I find myself honor-bound to continue reporting people's reaction to the memoir from which the article was drawn. Yesterday in the Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley wrote approvingly of Freed's book, particularly the section that slagged MFA programs and students, endorsing her point that writing is a calling, a vocation, and not a lifestyle or a job.

Fine. But there's a way to get that across in a way that's not terribly elitist and scornful.

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