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How can writing school help you?

We ask that question periodically over here, and today, my friends in the Know More Media network are debating the whole notion of college rankings.

I say rankings be damned. Ask why you are going to writing school before you ever worry about what's the best school. This MFA Blog post answers the most pressing question: "How can an MFA help you professionally?"

If you need a break from grad school worries, check out this Litblog Co-Op essay from Soft Skull Press, a harrowing, intimate look at the process of publishing your novel. 

Over at LitKicks, Levi Asher just wrote an funny essay about the resurrection of one of the cheesiest books ever written, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I read this book as an impressionable middle-schooler, and to this day, the Neil Diamond soundtrack is a guilty pleasure on my iPod. Read it if you dare.