> ...the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. I read an article a few years ago from a literary edi

> ...the top X of almost any genre I enjoy (which spans a large range of fiction) has been... lackluster. I read an article a few years ago from a literary editor complaining how MFA programs had made his job harder. He said his job used to be sorting a few gems out of a mountain of rubbish, but now he has the more time consuming task of sorting through a mountain of mediocre work. His point was that MFA programs can teach you how to not be awful, but not make you great.