Comments on: New Yorker Fiction Can Be Good http://www.afterthemfa.com/archives/new-yorker-fiction-can-be-good.html Life after the creative writing MFA | Writing tips | Author interviews | Creative writing links, and more. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Armand http://www.afterthemfa.com/archives/new-yorker-fiction-can-be-good.html/comment-page-1#comment-17 Armand Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:05:30 +0000 http://afterthemfa.com/archives/new-yorker-fiction-can-be-good.html#comment-17 You know, strangely, in the post-workshop world, I actually miss having a group of people to read my story. I now have three or four people who I rely on, but it took years to get even that small number together. I do understand that workshops can have a negative side, but at the time, I was lucky enough to find a couple of readers with whom I connected, and I felt that they were giving me good feedback on my writing and stories. As an aside, I have not been reading much New Yorker (we do subscribe, but it’s my wife who’s the real fan) but have been reading the serialized novel, Happyland or maybe Happy Land, in Harpers, and I love it despite the fact that it's got this summer reading tawdriness to it. (Kind of like season one of Desperate Housewives) cheers- Armand You know, strangely, in the post-workshop world, I actually miss having a group of people to read my story. I now have three or four people who I rely on, but it took years to get even that small number together.

I do understand that workshops can have a negative side, but at the time, I was lucky enough to find a couple of readers with whom I connected, and I felt that they were giving me good feedback on my writing and stories.

As an aside, I have not been reading much New Yorker (we do subscribe, but it’s my wife who’s the real fan) but have been reading the serialized novel, Happyland or maybe Happy Land, in Harpers, and I love it despite the fact that it’s got this summer reading tawdriness to it. (Kind of like season one of Desperate Housewives)

cheers-

Armand

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