Sandra Kotta - Quillette

With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part IV: The Sadia Shepard Incident

Many of their writers seem unable to conceive of life outside of a closed system controlled by a large bureaucracy.

Sandra Kotta

28 Mar 2018 · 15 min read

With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part III: The Spirit of the Age

Lerner earned a BA in Political Science from Brown University, as well as an MFA in poetry from the same institution.

Sandra Kotta

25 Mar 2018 · 15 min read

With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part II: English as a Dead Language

It is hard to pinpoint when the traditional canon of English poetry began to disintegrate in educational institutions.

Sandra Kotta

20 Mar 2018 · 17 min read

With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part I: A Cautionary Tale for Writers

Not merely in terms of what is published and circulated, but even with respect to the work that fledgling authors aspire to produce.

Sandra Kotta

19 Mar 2018 · 13 min read

Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition

Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.

Sandra Kotta

29 May 2017 · 19 min read

Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition

The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.

Sandra Kotta

17 May 2017 · 19 min read