“Bigger is always better in the American imagination. But I am here to tell you–six books and nearly a decade later– that this mind-set is parochial and self-defeating. It’s also complete nonsense.” 

The March/April Issue of Poets & Writers Magazine includes a piece by Eileen Pollack, the director of the MFA program at the University of Michigan and author of the upcoming novel Breaking and Entering (Four Way Books, 2012).