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I posted on Wednesday and post again today to qualify my somewhat-vituperative comments. I, too, feel that creative writers are sometimes not concerned enough with reading their predecessors, and literary studies helps to reinforce the idea that there is a huge body of writing to take in and if not emulate, and least absorb and enter into a dialogue with. I guess I'm just advocating meeting in the middle somewhere -- while theorists could work more on 'writing,' we writers certainly need to work more at becoming critical readers, not only of our own work but of the rich canon we have at our disposal. And I stand the most guilty in this respect.

: -- Laura Carter, graduate student (posted 3/15, 10:55 a.m., U.S. Eastern time)

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