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  • A Delicate Aggression

  • Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
  • By: David O. Dowling
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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A Delicate Aggression

By: David O. Dowling
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty

As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include 28 Pulitzer Prize winners, six US poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the “workshop” method of classroom peer criticism.

Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program - such as Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson - David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.

©2019 David O. Dowling (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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went off the rails

This started well. Then got very political as it started describing more recent history. Got pretty painful, sadly.

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