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Depends on their tenure status. There are certain poets I'd blow in my spare time tbh.

Post Structuralism is bae.

I imagine I'm about halfway done with it

It's a little like this: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense

Binding traditionally happened after defense and reading, so it's not really affecting any perspective of the work.

The length of the work is only 150 pages double-spaced, which isn't the entirety of the work itself. So while it would feel done, it would also feel a little too early.

Turns out they don't accept bound copies anymore. It's all done exclusively through ProQuest. I checked my guidelines.

I probably will when I submit it to the graduate school, but I emailed a copy to two of the profs and mailed one hard copy this morning. There's been some changes in policy regarding binding, so I'm not sure what I'll be doing until I return to campus.

My committee members include my advisor (a fiction professor) one poetry professor, and one literature professor, whose focus is post-structural narrative analysis, and genre studies. The novel-in-progress is a reflexive, very offbeat detective story. Oral defense is going to be lit.

I am nonetheless overwhelmed by your support; thank you! <3

I fell heads over heels for "When We Were Orphans." Still need to finish Remains. It's been recommended to me by several people on the old boards. I think Murakami will happen. It's hard to tell where the committee is pointing their attention. Nobody could've ever predicted Bob Dylan, after all, especially after the committee criticized American literature/readership for being too insular.

Right? Calvino's probably the writer responsible for revitalizing reading/writing for me.

I've always wanted to be the reason werewolf fiction made a comeback.

A little closer to being completely finished with my MFA. All that's left is the oral defense and the public reading. <3

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature#img-1 The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said had “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. With names including Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami leading the odds at the bookmakers, Ishiguro was a surprise choice. But his blue-chip literary credentials return the award to more familiar territory after last year’s controversial selection of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s writing, said the Academy, is “marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place”. Speaking on Thursday afternoon, the writer said it was “amazing and totally unexpected news”. “It comes at a time when the world is uncertain about its values, its leadership and its safety,” Ishiguro said. “I just hope that my receiving this huge honour will, even in a small way, encourage the forces for goodwill and peace at this time.” Ishiguro’s fellow Booker winner Salman Rushdie – who is also regularly named as a potential Nobel laureate – was one of the first to congratulate him. “Many congratulations to my old friend Ish, whose work I’ve loved and admired ever since I first read A Pale View of Hills,” Rushdie said. “And he plays the guitar and writes sings too! Roll over Bob Dylan.” According to the former poet laureate Andrew Motion, “Ishiguro’s imaginative world has the great virtue and value of being simultaneously highly individual and deeply familiar – a world of puzzlement, isolation, watchfulness, threat and wonder”. “How does he do it?” asked Motion. “Among other means, by resting his stories on founding principles which combine a very fastidious kind of reserve with equally vivid indications of emotional intensity. It’s a remarkable and fascinating combination, and wonderful to see it recognised by the Nobel prize-givers.”

I agree that five million isn't enough, but one hundred million is plenty to sustain yourself (and much more) for the rest of your life! Buy a nice house, a nice car, not work, party all day, devote your entire life to what you're passionate about! Unless you're really passionate about getting your dick wet. Then that's quite a compromise, but shit man, you could probably convince me to never write a novel if it meant living with significantly less worry. I'll cope in some way or another.

People who call me sir, or mister. "Dude" or "man" is fine, because I grew up around people who simply used that as a default for everybody. People who can see my computer screen as I'm working on writing.

I'd probably go with cutting off the genitals. It'd be closer to aligning with my gender anyway.

Oh but I am. I'm more pleased than ever.

You're going to kill it! Best of luck

Loud and clear

Our experience wasn't too bad

Its not gross if you don't kiss the tinier mouth in the zenomorphs larger mouth.