News at Eleven (Back Page): If literature as we know it does not survive

the Program Era, it will not be the fault of the program, which is doing what it can to make literary experience relevant to a world that has many other things to attend to," he observes. "In the meantime, it has bequeathed to us more interesting reading than one person could do in a lifetime."

In an interview, [Mark] McGurl says he has "gotten in the habit" of rattling off a list of names to demonstrate the robustness of the writing-program product: Michael Chabon, Richard Russo, David Foster Wallace, Jeffrey Eugenides. . . .

from The Chronicle Review: An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs

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