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Jul.21.2012 The Child is Father to the Man—What I learned from Richard Selzer at the Yale Writer’s Conference Before the conference, I received an Email from Yale, sent the conference leader, Terry Harker, that the Master to whom I was assigned was Richard Selzer. What a refined gentleman! At eighty-four, he walks miles to the Yale library every day and does his writing, turning out...	Jul.13.2012 "M&M World”—What I learned from Kate Walbert at the Yale Writer’s Conference Somehow I'd missed Kate Walberg's two stories in the New Yorker. Indeed, before I went to New Haven I’d not heard of her except as part of the summer’s faculty. She was one of the four ‘Masters,’ but one I was not assigned to, so I wasn't invited to her more intimate morning...
Jun.18.2011 New Literary Prizes Totalling $150,000 From Yale University A Writer’s Estate to Yield $150,000 Literary PrizesBy CHARLES McGRATH Yale University is announcing the establishment of some of the most lucrative literary prizes in America. Enlarge This ImageDon Hogan Charles/The New York Times The writer Donald Windham, who died last year, in 1991....	Dec.18.2009 No laughing matter: Index on Censorship Censors Itself The latest incident of self-censorship sounds like a bad joke -- a very bad one, at which no one, except the usual morons (Muslim extremists and Islamophobes) could possibly laugh. The respected UK publication “Index on Censorship” revealed today that it has censored itself. Citing fears for the...