FDU MFA Faculty Ellen Akins Contemplates Topic of Literary Difficulty

This weekend’s “Bookends” in the “NYTBR” prompted FDU MFA faculty Ellen Akins to go back and look at many takes on the topic of literary difficulty from the last few years, all linked in her post of samples (of Zoe Heller, Leslie Jamison, Christine Schutt, Sam Allingham, Matt Jakubowski, Scott Esposito, Benjamin Hale, Matt Bell, Jonathan Franzen, William Gaddis, Ben Marcus). Explore It’s complicated.