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That Pesky Stereotype of "English Professor"

"She takes on the skeptics and they push her to grasp the 'Core Emotional Truth'—that success in art demands that 'you have to stop trying to disguise who you are. The veils and pretenses of everyday life won’t work; a certain minimum truth-to-self is required.'"

Let Hollywood eat its shorts. I actually like how Terry Castle states what should be obvious about truly good (and liberated) writing. Enough pretense and hiding behind the artifice of academe, critical approval, and tenured inertia. Cut the bullshit and be true to what you really are, and you might actually succeed as a writer.

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/great-memoir-last

Posted March 1, 2010