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Introducing myself in my first MFA workshop, I was prompted to say my genre of writing. I stumbled and self-effaced, then spat out that e-mail is my genre. Stretching the definition of genre, this seems correct. I’ve disseminated some good stuff via the send button. This one is a response to [...]

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton recalls a ballistic inquisition from his friend Robert Lax:
What do you want to be, anyway?
Merton fumbles and murmurs some humble triviality unworthy of being remembered or cited. Lax, in a retort as brief and violent as his name, challenges:
What you should say is that you want to [...]