Episode 02: MFA Authors
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Nate and Mason both have MFAs, but do they go around telling everyone and demanding book deals because of it? Well, yes, if you’re offering. But anyway, a social media firestorm about a take about Sally Rooney not having an MFA got us thinking: Are They Good and Should Anyone Care?
Works Cited this episode:
“A Roon with a View,” Bookforum, Brandon Taylor
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Colored Television, Danzy Senna
“How has the MFA Changed the Contemporary Novel?,” The Atlantic, Richard Jean So and Andrew Piper
The Killer is Dying, James Sallis
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
“Flings,” Justin Taylor
In Five Years, Rebecca Serle
Blade, dir. Stephen Norrington
“Liking, Wanting, and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction,” American Psychologist, Kent C. Berridge and Terry E. Robinson
The Zone of Interest, dir. Jonathan Glazer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), created by Joss Whedon
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Shawshank Redemption, dir. Frank Darabont
Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino
Billy Madison, dir. Tamra Davis
A Strangeness in my Mind, Orhan Pamuk
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Memento, dir. Christopher Nolan
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Henry Danger, created by Dan Schneider
Ninjago, The Lego Group