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Is there life after the workshop?

Originally Published: May 17, 2010

The Huffington Post talks with John McNally about the Iowa Writers' Workshop:

I thought McNally, because he has experienced the Iowa Writers' Workshop firsthand--and lived to tell the funniest tale ever written about it--would be an ideal subject to interview about a lot of concerns in the writing and publishing industries, such as the incorporation of writing into the academy, the relevance of MFA programs, the transition from short story writing to novels, the general political economy of writing--and, of course, the inside scoop on the Iowa Writers' Workshop . . .