They would always think of it as the home place. The boys walked every inch of the land; Pa thought the land would instruct them in how to be competent men. He taught his sons not to cry. If they were to be farmers, as he expected, they needed to be tough, sometimes even without compassion. They were sent to boarding schools, to get the Indian out of them, Pa said.

The Abject Literator, A Literary Cahier. David Wojnarowicz and the MFA-ing of American Literature. I have, admittedly, said this before, and, given my penchant for repeating myself, will say it again and again, but there are more things to blame than just the Internet. The problem is not the MFA in and of itself, or even that black-hearted thing, the MFA in Creative Writing. Because of this, i.