Eric Bennett is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the author of Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War and the novels A Big Enough Lie and Welcome to the Election Year War.
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
The field won its battle with literature. Now what?
The Review | Essay
The field has painted itself into a corner. John Guillory offers a way out.
The Review
It exported a literature of individualism and domesticity — not one of solidarity and big ideas.
The Review
Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror.
The Review
With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.