Samantha Chang, the director of Iowa’s Writing Workshop, weighed in on the Girls storyline in which Lena Dunham’s character gets accepted into the school’s MFA program. “It’s very possible that she could have gotten in,” Chang says of Hannah Horvath, Dunham’s character. Meanwhile, University of Iowa officials have apparently denied the HBO show’s request to film on-campus for its next season.
Hannah Horvath is headed to Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. Or is she?
Outrage
Barry Ritholtz, the godfather of financial blogging (and not your typical Occupy Wall Street protester) calls the U.S. a "corporate monarchy" and wonders "Why have the Europeans figured out they are getting screwed, and we haven't?"
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Stop the presses. Or, rather, restart the presses!
Owing to a successful Facebook campaign and some outcries from the Press’s authors, University of Missouri administrators have decided to reinstate the University of Missouri Press—which was recently shuttered—and “rehire” its editor in chief, Clair Wilcox. The goal now, according to the university system’s president, is to “reinvent [the press] in a more cost-effective technological model.”
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Babysitting SEALs
"Write a short story from the point-of-view of a babysitter who one summer night witnesses something she never expected to see in her life, and then do a 'find and replace' in your Word doc until each instance of 'babysitter' becomes 'Navy SEAL.'" Leigh Stein shares some "Writing Prompts for Girls and Women" with The Rumpus. Pair with our own Emily St. John Mandel's review of Leigh Stein's The Fallback Plan.
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Kind of Bloop
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
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New Critical Flame
Issue three of The Critical Flame has arrived. Richard Nash's review of Ted Striphas' The Late Age of Print is a highlight.
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Pirates Write Books Too
Actor Mackenzie Crook (think tall, gangly pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean) tells Telegraph WordUp! Festival that writing his first children's book, The Windvale Sprites, was the most nerve-wracking test of his career.
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Convention for the Bookish
Miss this year's AWP? The New Yorker has published a brief write-up of the conference, just to make you jealous.
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“It’s very possible that she could have gotten in,”
Yes, because enrolling a fictional character in an MFA workshop will give the other students models to observe when they create their own fictional characters.