The Craft Challenges of Writing Political Fiction
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In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior. “The Workshop popularized an idea of craft as non-ideological,” writes Matthew Salesses, summarizing Eric Bennet’s history of post-World War II MFA programs, “but its claims should make clear that individualism is itself an ideology.”
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This ideology—that good craft centers “apol
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