new yorker on writing

Trawling the net when I stumbled across some interesting Saturday listening: the New Yorker magazine on why we ’study’ creative writing; the differences between workshops and working with an editor.

New Yorker Outloud: podcast, Creative Writing

For more on the ‘traps’ of the Creative Writing ’system’ (ie. MAs etc), podcaster, Louis Menand also gives us some more food for thought on the worth of teaching such a practice in a US context.

Critic at Large: Show or Tell?