A few more weeks left of graduate school, which means it's time to get cranking on the critical paper. The Masters of Fine Arts program requires a 20-page critical essay on any topic of my choosing along with 70+ pages of fiction, again topic of said choosing. The good news is that the fiction, about 90+ pages of it (thank you very much) are in pretty good shape. (Did I just say that?). The critical paper, on the other hand, is, well, on the other hand.

Here's what I've decided. I'd like it to be fun (fat chance), maybe funny (fatter chance), and maybe on Lorrie Moore. She is a writer I've always been drawn to, and now that I sit down to write about her, a writer I realize that I'm a few books behind on. As a form of calming elevator music to quiet this fact, I've been searching for any piece of critical information ever written about her online. And I came across this essay, which doesn't get me any closer necessarily to that 20-page thing, but it does have a gentle way of easing the mind.