Please use standard spelling and grammar on this academic forum.
Apparently, English graduate programs don't teach how to use the shift key. Or if they do, the OP hasn't taken that class yet.
You have to credit the OP's chutzpah, though, in terms of his or her moniker. I tend to view grammar etc. as a Darwinian force, especially within literary studies.
Chronanon's rudeness aside, what sort of discussion were you hoping for, OP?
I thought the article was a pretty good read, and I especially liked that it presents English majors with an interesting choice: go for a PhD and become a professor where you can live the "life of the mind" or make coffee for editors of the NY Review of Books (probably for a pittance, although money significantly doesn't show up in this delightful piece of upper middle class hand-wringing). I made my choice, and as beautiful as NYC is, I can live with it rather easily.
Also, the article repeats something I've heard on this forum: lit. scholars attack writers. This is weird, because I have never actually seen this happen, and as I've said on another thread, in my experience lit. scholars tend to praise the writers they study. Just goes to show that she's quite good at making self-interested victimizing generalizations--a rather common human trait, I've found.
