Perez is a very outspoken fellow, and both he and his editor are courageous, for it is entirely predictable that individuals outraged by his views have denounced them and derograted him vehemently. Perez has little good to say about MFA programs and the whole so-called "literary community" - "community" joining "iconic" as an over-used word that has shed its meaning. My dream of being the next Alex Rodriguez was wiped away, so I decided to give the writing life a shot-maybe I could be the Cuban-American Ray Carver." Think about it: the American dream reconfigured as the metamorphosis of Alex Rodriguez into Raymond Carver! That rates a wow.Įven someone who had never heard of either the magazine, its editor, or the subject of the interview, could not help taking notice of “ Alex Perez on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, baseball, growing up Cuban-American in Miami & saying goodbye to the literary community”. As Perez explains it: "I couldn’t see-forget hit-a 95 mile per hour fastball, and so it was over.
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An enterprising editor named Elizabeth Ellen, the poet and writer who runs Hobart magazine, undertook an e-mail correspondence with Alex Perez, a former professional baseball player who attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
So it is noteworthy when someone pops off, refusing to yield to the forces of self-censorship. It's no secret that literary people and humanists are reluctant to take an unpopular position that deviates from the party line. Tracy Danison, Paris correspondent (130).Moira Egan, European Correspondent (72).Mitch Sisskind - Correspondent at Large (381).Loren Goodman, Pacific Correspondent (26).Jim Cummins - Mid West Correspondent (106).Jill Alexander Essbaum - Coeur Despondent (68).Jenny Factor -West Coast Correspondent (71).Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Lion and the Honeycomb (171).
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