"Creative writing courses are killing western literature, claims Nobel judge. Grants cut off writers from society, whereas past greats worked as ‘taxi drivers and waiters’ to feed their imaginations, says Horace Engdahl."

Like on one hand I disagree, but on the other hand I’ve been in a room with an award-winning grant recipient student at an Ivy League whose idea of “write about a significant obstacle in your life” was The time my father ran for re-election and since we were accustomed to living in the Governor’s mansion we didn’t have anywhere to live when he lost so I had to live in a five-star hotel for three months while my parents bought a house.