MFA fiction programs may have no fiercer critic than Elif Batuman. She has mocked the writing workshop multiple times in print and mourned the kind of prose it …
Maggie Doherty
Maggie Doherty is a writer and a lecturer at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, n+1, and Dissent, among other publications. She is working on a book about the intellectual friendships among female writers and artists at the Radcliffe Institute in the early 1960s. 