C.M. Arnold’s Reviews > Colored Television > Status Update

"If a poet asked me to meet him at that hour? I would expect to be assaulted." Lmao wtf.

"It's not just the writing. It's the publishing. It's what comes after. You finish this thing---then the book comes out and you have to peddle it. There's so much desperation involved in selling your own work. You cultivate a persona to hawk a product that, let's be real, nobody really wants."

The commentary on the current era of college writing classes, the climate, and the students. The words echo what I feel. Again, not a teacher, but I feel like this has to be spot on. Hilarious, but in an unfortunate way. Almost satire. RIP to the big, sprawling, old-fashioned novel. You are missed

"One of the worst parts of teaching was, like a series of mini strokes, it ruined you as a writer. A brain could handle only so many undergraduate stories about date rape and eating disorders, dead grandmothers and mystical dogs. A brain could take only so much purple prose and mechanical epiphany."

I'm not a professor, but I've always kinda imagined this is what it's like.

"Didionesque." I'm going to start using that. And how dare Goodreads attempt to correct me. Also, I'm kinda concerned for the character that's already reached Didionesque emotion (or lack thereof) at age thirty-three. I mean, I relate, but that doesn't mean it's not concerning on both our parts to be feeling Didionesque at thirty-three.