Mark McGurl is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and Rise of Creative Writing.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic
BEFORE WE CAN BEGIN to take the measure of Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and The New Supernatural, Victoria Nelson’...

The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?...
