Kairiko

This might possibly be the worst decision I’ve ever seen in my life. No words 😳😳

In the waning days of my graduate 'career' at Berkeley, flailing at a PhD in physics and avoiding the lab, I took the creative writing workshop which was meant for aspiring writers and run like the Iowa Writers' Workshop where you wrote a bit, read classics of short form, and (unfortunately) read a lot of your colleagues' fiction. One day the professor emails me that it was 'imperative' I come to his office, where he proceeded to upbraid me for ruthlessly ripping the work of everyone else. I toned it down while working on my own stuff but I remembered everyone's names. Since then (and since Chaos Monkeys) every couple of years, I Google-stalk everyone and see if they produced anything. One workshopper became an academic and produced a CV-full of unreadable boilerplate, another published an instantly-forgotten novel...and that's it. So sorry Professor Loewinsohn, you were a kind man with good taste in readings, but I was right.

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