Article: The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880

D. G. Myers. The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. $17.00 paper (ISBN 0-226-55454-6), 238 pages.

Reviewed by Abdel Shakur

Although creative writing as a subject is more popular than it's ever been (over 400 programs world-wide, granting 1,000 degrees every year), it's hard to see such explosive growth and not feel a nervous twinge. What standard of writing are these programs directing their students towards? Ate they all being taught, as some critics would charge, to "write like Iowa"? Further, what does it mean to have so many studying writing at a time when society marches towards ever braver levels of illiteracy? In D. ...

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