Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't

The Phenomenon Of University Creative Writing Programs Doesn't Exist In France. The Whole Idea Is Regarded As A Novelty, Or An Oddity.

I've Been An Inveterate Reader Of Literary Magazines Since I Was A Teenager. There Are Always Discoveries. You're Sitting In Your Easy Chair, Reading; You Realize You've Read A Story Or A Group Of Poems Four Times, And You Know, Yes, I Want To Go Farther With This Writer.

The Ambiguities Of Language, Both In Terms Of Vocabulary And Syntax, Are Fascinating: How Important Connotation Is, What Is Lost And What Is Gained In The Linguistic Transition.

You Are Almost Not Free, If You Are Teaching A Group Of Graduate Students, To Become Friends With One Of Them. I Don't Mean Anything Erotically Charged, Just A Friendship.

Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't Say I Belong To An Especially Anglophone Community.