‘Famous Men’ And Ambitious Women

Is there a story writers love to tell more than the one about how we became ourselves? Give me all of them: your Künstlerromans, your campus novels, your NYCs, your MFAs. I didn’t go to Iowa, but I’ve read so many recollections of the program that sometimes I think I might have. The pleasures of the genre arise in part from how its entrants play with certain tropes: the struggle to find one’s voic