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How the CIA destroyed fiction

February 12, 2014Blogcia, mfa, the academic-industrial complexAlex Murphy

I’m currently in the process of battening the hatches and preparing to ignore the onslaught of AWP posts that will start flooding the internet shortly, so here’s some nice reading about how the CIA secretly funded Iowa’s creative writing program.

How Iowa Flattened Literature – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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