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Edmund Gordon: Camille Bordas’s ‘Material’, 12 September 2024

The Material 
by Camille Bordas.
Serpent’s Tail, 352 pp., £16.99, July, 978 1 80522 006 0
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... 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 ...

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