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Hello everyone, this is Jack Wilson, the host of the History of Literature Podcast.

I'm so glad you're here and welcome to the show.

One quick note before we begin, you have found one of the oldest episodes in our archive.

The show doesn't discuss literature in chronological order,

so you won't be missing anything if you start with the more recent episodes

instead of the earliest ones.

And, let's be honest honest the show's quality has improved

quite a bit since these early days. But of course where you begin is up to you and

if you'd like to give this one a try please be my guest. All of the episodes in the archive are yours to enjoy for free.

Hello. For decades, the Master of Fine Arts degree has quietly dominated the American literary scene.

There are now over a hundred programs where professors and students go about the business of

turning dreams into fiction through the alchemy, or as some would say, the meat grinder known as the writing

workshop. It's a phenomenon like no other in the history of literature. What goes on at these

MFA programs? What good comes out of them? And what impact are they having on contemporary American literature?

The President of the is a system. Books are mirrors in people's experiences and in season two of

missing pages we'll take a look at what happens when an old system faces new

challenges. This is what happens when you involve money. I'm Beth Ann Patrick,

literary critic, writer, and your host of season two of the Missing Pages podcast,

a show that gives you a ringside seat to some of the juiciest conflicts in the book world.

In season two, we're turning up the dial.

She wasn't pretty much a stratosphere all around.

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