Egg-Lemon Soup
Edmund Gordon: Camille Bordas’s ‘Material’, 12 September 2024
“... Fiction about creative writing programmes is always vulnerable to accusations of navel-gazing. Camille Bordas has, however, provided her new novel with an alibi. The Material follows the staff and students on the ‘MFA in stand-up’ at an unnamed Chicago university over the last day of the autumn term. It’s a clever conceit, giving the eternal question about writing programmes an unusual twist ... ”