Is American fiction falling in a downward spiral or are we at the cusp of something new?

In this episode I try to answer the old question: Should we write by the playbook? Have MFA writing programs degraded the quality of the modern contemporary American novel?

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Featuring Mary Shelly’s prescient novel and its relevance today, tonight's episode makes some connections between present artistic ennui and gothic angst.

Tonight, we're talking about one of the ultimate outsiders. A guy who spent most of his life in the shadows, writing about things so big and so terrifying they made humanity look like an afterthought. His name was H.P. Lovecraft.

In my inaugural episode I re-hatch an old idea: Talking straight up about the gritty reality of writing, of making it as a writer, of navigating the modern minefield landscape of publishing in the digital world.