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Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and Rise of Creative Writing.

Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic

BEFORE WE CAN BEGIN to take the measure of Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and The New Supernatural, Victoria Nelson’s vivid, compendiously learned study of recent developments on the dark side of popular culture, we need first to agree ...

MARK MCGURL

The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing

Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?...

MARK MCGURL

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