Sonya Chung
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Sonya Chung explores the most important quality in teaching writing @ The Millions.
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Thirty-six. This is the number of books I will have read, or re-read, in 2010 by the end of October. I keep a “Reading List”Once upon a time I was good at math. If memory serves me right, I think I may have even gotten the highest score possible on a Calculus BC Advanced Placement exam. I wonder how different my life would be if I had become, say, an engineer; or an economist; or a CFO.
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But I am none of those things. I am a writer. I also teach fiction writing. A few weeks ago, partially in response to Elif Batuman’s essay in the London Review of Books, “Get A Real Degree,” Bill Morris wrote a piece here called, “Does School Kill Writing?” Morris wrote: “School wasn’t my death as a writer, it was my birth… I’m dubious when people fret that school is killing writing – that college boys ruined newspapers and the growing horde of creative writing MFAs is ruining American fiction today.” page on my website, and the other day, I found myself counting up my 2010 reading. I also found myself dividing 36 by 43, which is the number of weeks between January 1 and Oct 31. It comes out to .84. This is my rate of reading. In 2010, I have read .84 books per week.
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