July 27th, 2013 / 11:51 am
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I’m looking for MFA thesis flipped into a first book. Preferably a good first book.

27 Comments

  1. July 27th, 2013 / 12:34 pm Ethan Ashley—

      I think The Broom of The System was this, although it was only so-so.

  2. July 27th, 2013 / 12:51 pm Guest—
  3. July 27th, 2013 / 12:52 pm PatrickSpens—
  4. July 27th, 2013 / 2:24 pm jtc—

      tbots was for dfws undergrad thesis in english. his phil thesis is floating around the internet too I thnk.

  5. July 27th, 2013 / 2:26 pm jtc—

      tbots was his undergrad thesis.

  6. July 27th, 2013 / 4:00 pm Banango—

      I believe that Matt Bell’s How They Were Found was part of his MFA thesis. (Source: Looked at his thesis in the library once)

  7. July 27th, 2013 / 9:07 pm J.M. Gamble—

      Not sure if poetry is out of the realm of what you’re looking for, but Maurice Manning’s Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions was his thesis. It won him Yale Younger Poets.

  8. July 28th, 2013 / 7:34 am markbaumer—

      I think I remember reading/hearing that The Age of Wire and String was Ben Marcus’ thesis, but I just looked up his thesis and it was something called “secret weather”

  9. July 28th, 2013 / 7:38 am markbaumer—
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  11. July 28th, 2013 / 7:41 am markbaumer—
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  13. July 28th, 2013 / 10:18 am Mike Meginnis—

      Mine will be fall of next year. And I wrote it in your program!

  14. July 28th, 2013 / 12:38 pm traynor—

      I think Everything is Illuminated started as Foer’s thesis.

  15. July 28th, 2013 / 3:59 pm rawbbie—
  16. July 28th, 2013 / 4:01 pm rawbbie—

      Pretty Tilt by Carrie Murphy; also from your program and one of my favorite books of poetry in the last few years.

  17. July 28th, 2013 / 7:22 pm John Minichillo—

      Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard To Find.

  18. July 31st, 2013 / 7:38 am Brooks Sterritt—

      The Torrents of Spring

  19. August 3rd, 2013 / 1:52 pm Lily Hoang—

      Dude, he wrote that as an undergrad. It’s pretty phenome, think of his age!

  20. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:02 pm lily hoang—

      Yep it was

  21. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:03 pm lily hoang—

      Thanks Mark

  22. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:03 pm lily hoang—

      Yay! Thanks, Mike and CONGRATS!

  23. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:03 pm lily hoang—

      Undergrad, but I might use it anyways. I taught TBOTS last year and it was DFW’s undergrad thesis so.

  24. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:04 pm lily hoang—

      Did he really go to MFA school or was that named The School of Gertrude Stein? Heh.

  25. August 3rd, 2013 / 2:04 pm lily hoang—

      Hey Brooks, where you been? No one gmail chats me late at night now.

  26. August 3rd, 2013 / 3:36 pm Brooks Sterritt—

      Yeah, Pound and Stein were on his thesis committee. :D

  27. August 3rd, 2013 / 3:37 pm Brooks Sterritt—

      hiding :(