"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior.

[dbattistella@mstdn.ca]

"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior.

The Workshop popularized an idea of craft as non-ideological, but that individualism is itself an ideology."

#Books #Writing #Individualism #CIA
https://lithub.com/the-craft-challenges-of-writing-political-fiction/