{"id":17850,"date":"2011-07-01T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2011-07-01T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:13:07","slug":"larger-than-news-professional-m-f-a-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/larger-than-news-professional-m-f-a-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Larger than News; Professional M.F.A. People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><em>Hi Mr. Stein. I went to a talk you gave many months ago at McNally Jackson about <\/em>The Paris Review<em>. You said something that has stayed in my mind, especially now that President Obama has said that we will be withdrawing from Afghanistan. You said that you believe what you\u2019re doing with<\/em> The Paris Review<em> (and literature in general) was just as important as the coverage a newspaper like <\/em>The New York Times<em> gives to the wars in the Middle East. Can you explain? I see in some ways how you are making a point, but I can\u2019t help but think that literature has to weigh a little bit lower on the scale of important things, especially against war.<\/em><br \/><em> Sincerely,<\/em><br \/><em> Thom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yikes! I <em>hope<\/em> I didn\u2019t say that\u2014I certainly don\u2019t think it! What I can imagine saying is that, in one person\u2019s tiny life, it is possible for art to loom larger than the news of the day. I can also imagine saying that this strikes me as a good thing. There are people the country needs to hear from regarding military strategy, and people it doesn\u2019t. I, for instance, am someone with whom there\u2019s not much point discussing troop levels.<\/p>\n<p>Your question makes me think of Roberto Bola\u00f1o\u2019s comic novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6083\/the-third-reich-part-i-roberto-bolano\">The Third Reich<\/a><\/em>, all about a writer who sacrifices everything\u2014love, friends, home, job\u2014for a board game &#8230; a board game in which he restrategizes the entire Second World War so the Nazis will win. Writers are like that. They are, among other things, people for whom the unimportant outweighs the important. What\u2019s more (at least in Bola\u00f1o\u2019s fiction), they are people you wouldn\u2019t <em>want<\/em> to see involved in foreign policy, because they\u2019d screw it up, or play\u2014as often as not\u2014for the wrong side.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of M.F.A. programs? A. R. Ammons says in his <\/em><a href=\"\/interviews\/1394\/the-art-of-poetry-no-73-a-r-ammons\">Paris Review<em> interview<\/a> that \u201cit sometimes happens that these professional M.F.A. people are also poets, but it rarely happens.\u201d Do you agree with Ammons, or do you think these places can play a meaningful role in nurturing poets and other writers? Yours, E. M.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think A. R. Ammons is using the word <em>poet<\/em> in a special way. Poets often do. He means there are not many great poets in writing programs. It\u2019s true: but then, there are not many great poets anywhere. That doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t learn something about poetry in a writing program. And most of them are nothing if not nurturing. For me the question is whether nurturing\u2014whether being part of a caring community\u2014makes for better work or for poems that people will actually want to read out there in the cold, hard world. For others, being part of that community is a powerful incentive to write. For these people, I think an M.F.A. makes all kinds of sense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a question for <\/em>The Paris Review<em>?<a href=\"mailto:advice@theparisreview.org\"> E-mail<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Mr. Stein. I went to a talk you gave many months ago at McNally Jackson about The Paris Review. You said something that has stayed in my mind, especially now that President Obama has said that we will be withdrawing from Afghanistan. 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