Don't Get Me Started: Creative Writing Classes

The creative writing world's collective hair has been set on fire byHanif Kureishi's observations on the life and education of thecontemporary writer at the Hay Festival this year. In particular, hisnotion that creative writing classes are "the new mental hospitals."Clearly, Kureishi didn't mean mental hospitals in the Foulcauldiansense. At least for his own students at Kingston University in