Tried to read 3 well regarded recent books only to find them all too MFA-y

“The gulls wheeled around the spires, keening themselves hoarse”

— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) July 10, 2016

Hear, hear. Had nearly the same experience.

I just can’t read or write books like that. It’s just trying too hard to do something that sounds impressive to the educated morons but that sounds like a shithead shindig to the truly educated.

Marge Piercy is another prose writer like Coetzee, if anyone is interested, though far less well-known.

She ain’t no slouch at poetry, either.