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Stephen Metcalf discusses the market and students’ writing heroes at the Kelly Writers House on February 10, 2011.
Stephen Metcalf s a columnist at Slate, where he is the host of Culture Gabfest. After several years spent in a PhD program at Yale, Metcalf’s enthusiasm for a profession with radically un-normalized career outcomes and extremely few jobs, and in which the one compensatory perk –tenure –was being withheld from new entrants, waned, and he moved to NYC to be a freelance writer. While struggling to find a voice unaddled by literary theory and too many years in grad school, he worked several anonymous if shabby-chic literary jobs, eventually catching on as a speechwriter for Hilary Clinton’s first Senate campaign. Metcalf has also written for TNR, the Nation, and Times Magazine. He is at work on a book-length polemic on the 1980s.
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