My spring independent study reading list.
MFA programs prompt strong opinions, for and against (also: qualified—in both senses of the word—opinions). Above all what MFA programs offer is a chance to spend relatively a lot of time reading, thinking about and discussing literature, and trying to write it, with—hopefully—a simpatico group of cohorts to give you comments you’d need an editor to get otherwise. That’s no guarantee of anything. But it can be pretty wonderful.